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Raspberry Pi 4 cluster Series - Install awesome kubectl aliases¶

The article "Awesome Kubernetes Command-Line Hacks" points out some interesting items to take in account. In summary activate the autocompletion and generate the kubectl aliases to make your life better.

Enable kubectl autocompletion¶

Enable kubectl autocompletion is one of the first things you have to do to make your life a bit easier. There are two ways in which you can do this:

• Source the completion script in your ~/.bashrc file:

echo 'source <(kubectl completion bash)' >>~/.bashrc

• Add the completion script to the /etc/bash_completion.d directory:

kubectl completion bash >/etc/bash_completion.d/kubectl

If you have an alias for kubectl, you can extend shell completion to work with that alias:

echo 'alias k=kubectl' >>~/.bashrc
echo 'complete -F __start_kubectl k' >>~/.bashrc

Above information come from kubernetes kubectl page. If you are alone then go for the first option, if more users require these autocompletion then go for the latter option.

Kubectl aliases¶

Kubectl commands can be long and hard to type over and over again, therefore, why not apply the kubectl-aliases github project.

References¶

[1] Awesome Kubernetes Command-Line Hacks

[2] kubectl-aliases GitHub Source

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• initial post on 30/Sep/2020