Productivity

This blog will showcase my productivity tips with kubectl . This does not venture into any plugins per se. But only using bash aliases to achieve it. Bash Aliases # k8s alias alias k=kubectl alias kg="kubectl get" alias kgp="kubectl get pods" alias kgs="kubectl get services" alias kge="kubectl get events" alias kgpvc="kubectl get pvc" alias kgpv="kubectl get pv" alias kd="kubectl describe" alias kl="kubectl logs -f" alias kc="kubectl create -f" I have above aliases setup in the ~/.bashrc file. The beauty of the aliases is that you can append more flags and parameters to the existing smaller alias. For, e.g. I have an alias for kubectl get pods as kgp, but if I want to get pods from all the namespaces, I use kgp -A. ...

I always had a conundrum about how to manage the scripts and binaries downloaded randomly from the internet. One way is to put them in the global PATH directory like /usr/local/bin, but I am sceptical about it. There are a couple of things I wanted to solve. How do you update these scripts and binaries? How to do it consistently across all my machines? How to make it easier to have my setup available on any new Linux machine(or even container) I setup? How to do it without sudo? ...