Hands-on Kubernetes tooling

There are a handful of Kubernetes tools on the market – we’ll start by covering some widely used Kubernetes tools to interact with the Kubernetes cluster. We’ll dive into some key tools with hands-on labs later in this chapter.

Core tools

In this section, we are going to cover tools which are required to work with Kubernetes and containers.

kubectl

kubectl is a Kubernetes command-line tool used to talk to the Kubernetes cluster. It is hands down the most common and important utility that allows you to run commands against the Kubernetes cluster. There are a handful of kubectl commands available that will allow users to work with the Kubernetes cluster, such as deploying a containerized application, managing cluster resources, and monitoring and visualizing events and logs. We’ll cover most of the common kubectl commands with examples as we go through the process.

To set up the kubectl utility, if you’...