kubectl-application-shell

Description

This kubectl plugin allows you to solve this issue:

You may want to run a one off sql query wrapped up in a script just to glean some information from the database. The traditional way to do this is by using kubectl exec into an existing pod running as part of your deployment. However, this may cause issues if your one-off command ends up killing the pod, which may impact production (dropping connections etc). It's much safer just to spin up a pod to do the one off task.

This command essentially wraps around kubectl run. It will allow you to specify a deployment name and the deployment namespace, and it will automatically grab the currently running image, resource limits/requests, config and secret mappings so that you have the required environment variables to complete your one-off task without impacting the existing deployment.

Pre-requisites

• kubectl
• jq

Installation

This uses pipenv in order to manage dependencies. You need Python 3.

Usage

Run pipenv install and pipenv shell.

You can then run the script directly with python src/kubectl-application-shell.py and it will give you the options.

It will automatically grab the image, resource limits/requests, config and secret mappings from the specified deployment.