Pods with YAML

Question 1

What are the required fields in a YAML config file

Answer 1

• apiVersion (v1 or apps/v1)
• kind (Pod, ReplicaSet, Deployment)
• metadata (data about the object: labels, name)
• spec (data about the container)

Question 2

How do I get detailed information about a pod

Answer 2

$ k describe pods

Question 3

How do I generate spec for running pod nginx and write it into a file

Answer 3

$ k run <pod-name> --image=<name> --dry-run=client -o yaml > <name>.yaml</name></name></pod-name>

Question 4

How do I edit an existing pod

Answer 4

$ k get pod <pod-name> -o yaml > pod-definition.yaml</pod-name>