Interactive Pod exec

Select a Pod interactively and open a shell inside one of its containers:

kubectl peek exec

The selector displays the Pod name, readiness, container count and phase. Completed and failed Pods are excluded.

Select Pod
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Select container when more than one exists
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Open /bin/bash or fall back to /bin/sh

Common commands

kubectl peek exec api
kubectl peek exec -n staging
kubectl peek exec api \
  --namespace staging \
  --container application \
  --shell /bin/sh

Overrides are available for namespace, context, kubeconfig, container and shell.

Alias:

kubectl peek x

Exit the container shell with:

exit