Show exact API requests and steps

The flag --v=8 shows the requests with responses, including the request body. For example, doing kubectl rollout undo deployment/version --v=8 | grep PATCH is showing me the PATCH request body from kubectl.

View details about the cluster:

kubectl cluster-info

Get info:

kubectl get nodes kubectl get deployment kubectl get deployment -o yaml kubectl get pods kubectl get pods -o wide kubectl get services

Watch All:

watch -n 1 kubectl get deployments,replicasets,pods,statefulsets,jobs,cronjobs,pv,pvc,svc,ingress

Get even more info:

kubectl describe pod nginx-depl-5c8bf76b5b-f8lsb

Explain / Documentation

kubectl explain pods

Create:

kubectl create deployment nginx-depl --image=nginx

Apply a pre-exising config:

kubectl apply -f nginx-depl.yaml

Edit:

Open a deployment's config in your text editor:
kubectl edit deployment nginx-depl

Edit ingresses:
kubectl edit -n test ingresses.networking.k8s.io

Logs:

kubectl logs nginx-depl-5c8bf76b5b-f8lsb

Start a terminal on a pod:

kubectl exec -it nginx-depl-5c8bf76b5b-f8lsb -- bin/bash

Delete:

kubectl delete deployment nginx-depl

Delete via config:

kubectl delete -f nginx-depl.conf

Dry Run:

kubectl run hello-kubernetes --image=nginx:alpine --dry-run=client

Port Forward:

kubectl port-forward hello-kubernetes 8080:80

Expose a Pod:

kubectl expose pod jsonserver1 --name=clusterip-jss --port=80 --target-port=3000

kubectl get endpoints clusterip-jss