Cheat sheet

Kubectl Quick Reference

Essential kubectl commands for Kubernetes operations.

kubectl get pods -A (List all pods in all namespaces)

kubectl describe pod <name> (Verbose pod info)

kubectl logs -f <name> (Stream pod logs)

kubectl exec -it <name> -- /bin/bash (Interactive shell)

kubectl apply -f <file> (Create/update resources)

kubectl delete pod <name> (Remove a pod)

kubectl scale deployment <name> --replicas=3 (Scale)

kubectl edit svc <name> (Modify service inline)

kubectl top node (Check node CPU/RAM)

kubectl get events --sort-by='.lastTimestamp' (Recent events)

kubectl rollout status deployment/<name> (Check update status)

kubectl cp <local> <pod>:<path> (Copy files to pod)

Wait for deployment completion

kubectl rollout status deployment/my-app --timeout=90s

Get all resources in a namespace

kubectl get all -n my-namespace

Port forward to local machine

kubectl port-forward svc/my-service 8080:80