Kubernetes and Docker commands

List the services

To list all of the services in the namespace:

kubectl get services

List the pods

To list all of the pods in the namespace:

kubectl get pods

To list the pods with more details:

kubectl get pods -o wide

Pod logs

To dump the pod log files in the namespace:

kubectl logs my-pod

To dump the pod log files in the namespace if you have multiple containers:

kubectl logs my-pod -c my-container

Run a command in a pod

To run a command in a single container pod:

kubectl exec my-pod -- ls /

To run a command in a multi-container pod:

kubectl exec my-pod -c my-container -- ls /

IBM Surveillance Insight for Financial Services uses the following containers:

• sifs-db2instance
• sifs-liberty-instance
• sifs-solr-instance
• sifs-elasticsearch-instance
• sifs-logstash-instance
• sifs-kibanna-instance
• sifs-filebeat-instance

Describe commands

kubectl describe nodes my-node
kubectl describe pods my-pod

List Docker images

docker images

List Docker containers

docker ps -a

Copying files from and to Docker

docker cp CONTAINER:SRC_PATH DEST_PATH|-
docker cp SRC_PATH|- CONTAINER:DEST_PATH