Is there a way to programmatically get the name of the pod that a container belongs to in Kubernetes? If so how? I'm using fabric8's java client but curl or something similar will be fine as well.
Note that I don't want to find the pod using a specific label since then (I assume) I may not always find the right pod if it's scaled with a replication controller.
You can tell Kubernetes to put the pod name in an environment variable of your choice using the downward API.
For example:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: dapi-test-pod
spec:
containers:
- name: test-container
image: gcr.io/google_containers/busybox
command: [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "env" ]
env:
- name: MY_POD_NAME
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.name
- name: MY_POD_NAMESPACE
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: metadata.namespace
- name: MY_POD_IP
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: status.podIP
restartPolicy: Never