Kubectl — Context Better

Imagine you’re a site reliability engineer at a midsize company. It’s Monday morning, 9:15 AM. You grab your coffee, open your terminal, and type:

kubectl get pods

: You can override the active kubeconfig file by setting the KUBECONFIG environment variable, which is useful for temporary sessions. kubectl Quick Reference | Kubernetes kubectl context

kubectl config current-context

This will output a list of all contexts in your kubeconfig file, along with their corresponding clusters, users, and namespaces. Imagine you’re a site reliability engineer at a

echo "\n### All Contexts" kubectl config get-contexts

You type:

Here are some best practices to keep in mind when using kubectl context :

: Tools like kubectx and kubens are popular community utilities that allow you to switch contexts and namespaces with even fewer keystrokes. along with their corresponding clusters

To see all available contexts defined in your kubeconfig file (usually located at ~/.kube/config ), run: kubectl config get-contexts

echo "\n### Pods (All Namespaces)" kubectl get pods --all-namespaces