A collection of plugins for kubectl integration.

A plugin is a standalone executable file, whose name begins with kubectl-. To install a plugin, move its executable file to anywhere on your PATH.

sudo chmod +x ./kubectl-ssh

sudo mv ./kubectl-ssh /usr/local/bin

You can use kubectl plugin list command to ensure that your plugin is visible by kubectl, and verify that there are no warnings preventing it from being called as a kubectl command.

kubectl plugin list

Supports

1. fast ssh onto kubernetes nodes

2. nsenter into any pod's container linux namespace

Some dir paths might need revising according to actual situation.

Provider-agnostic way of opening a remote shell to a Kubernetes node.

Enables you to access a node even when it doesn't run an SSH server or when you don't have the required credentials. Also, the way you log in is always the same, regardless of what provides the Kubernetes cluster (e.g. Minikube, Kind, Docker Desktop, GKE, AKS, EKS, ...)

You must have cluster-admin rights to use this plugin.

The primary focus of this plugin is to provide access to nodes, but it also provides a quick way of running a shell inside a pod.

Examples:

  # Open a shell to node of a single-node cluster (e.g. Docker Desktop)
  kubectl ssh node

  # Open a shell to node of a multi-node cluster (e.g. GKE)
  kubectl ssh node my-worker-node-1

  # Execute the command ls on a node my-worker-node-1
  kubectl ssh node my-worker-node-1 ls

  # Nsenter into network namespace of a pod
  kubectl ssh pod my-pod

Usage:
  kubectl ssh node [nodeName] [command]
  kubectl ssh pod [podName] [-n namespace] [-c container]