Very Handy Kubernetes Commands

This post describes some of the Kubernetes commands which we found quite handy.

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How to check if POD is in running Status ?

When you create POD , at times POD may take some time to get created so instead of executing the get pod command again and again to check the Running status you could use --watch flag with kubectl

kubectl get po --watch

How to check on which Node POD is running ?

Method 1

kubectl get po -o wide

If using Minikube you should see the following

Method 2

kubectl describe no 

This provides a complete list of of PODS running on that node. This is quite handy in case you want to know which PODs are running on the node.