Kubernetes Client

Overview

This container provides the Kubernetes client kubectl which can be used to interact with a Kubernetes cluster

Build

docker build -t k8s/kubectl:<tag> .

Run

docker run --rm k8s/kubectl:<tag> --server=http://<server-name>:8080 get pods

Data Container

In order to get kube spec files accessible via the kubectl container please use the following data container that exposes a data volume under /data. It dumps everything under cwd in the data container.

cat ~/bin/mk-data-container 
#!/usr/bin/env sh


WORKDIR="$1"

if [ -z $WORKDIR ]; then
    WORKDIR='.'
fi

cd $WORKDIR

#echo "FROM debian:jessie\n\nVOLUME [ '/usr/src/myapp' ]\n\nCOPY * /usr/src/myapp/" > ./Dockerfile.data-container
echo "FROM debian:jessie\n\nVOLUME [ '/data' ]\n\nCOPY * /data/" > ./Dockerfile.data-container

docker rm data

docker build -f ./Dockerfile.data-container -t temp/data .

docker run --name data temp/data

rm ./Dockerfile.data-container

Data container with kubectl container

docker run --rm -it --volumes-from data k8s/kubectl:<tag> --server=http://<server-name>:8080 create -f /data/controller.yml