In a container inside a pod, how can I run a command using kubectl? For example, if i need to do something like this inside a container:
kubectl get pods
I have tried this : In my dockerfile, I have these commands :
RUN curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
RUN chmod +x ./kubectl
RUN sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
EDIT : I was trying the OSX file, I have corrected it to the linux binary file. (corrected by @svenwltr
While creating the docker file, this is successful, but when I run the kubectl get pods inside a container,
kubectl get pods
I get this error :
The connection to the server : was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
When I was deploying locally, I was encountering this error if my docker-machine was not running, but inside a container how can a docker-machine be running?
Locally, I get around this error by running the following commands: (dev is the name of the docker-machine)
docker-machine env dev
eval $(docker-machine env dev)
Can someone please tell me what is it that I need to do?
I would use kubernetes api, you just need to install curl, instead of kubectl
and the rest is restful.
curl http://localhost:8080/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods
Im running above command on one of my apiservers. Change the localhost to apiserver ip address/dns name.
Depending on your configuration you may need to use ssl or provide client certificate.
In order to find api endpoints, you can use --v=8
with kubectl
.
example:
kubectl get pods --v=8
Resources:
Kubernetes API documentation
Update for RBAC:
I assume you already configured rbac, created a service account for your pod and run using it. This service account should have list permissions on pods in required namespace. In order to do that, you need to create a role and role binding for that service account.
Every container in a cluster is populated with a token that can be used for authenticating to the API server. To verify, Inside the container run:
cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
To make request to apiserver, inside the container run:
curl -ik \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token)" \
https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods