https://github.com/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec

Kubectl plugin to interactively exec into a pod
https://github.com/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec

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Kubectl plugin to interactively exec into a pod

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec
• Owner: gabeduke
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-04-18T21:38:24.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-21T12:49:46.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-31T20:38:06.439Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: kubectl, kubectl-plugin, kubectl-plugins, kubernetes
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 230 KB
• Stars: 137
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 18
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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# Kubectl Interactive Exec

## Summary

`Kubectl-iexec` is a plugin providing an interactive selector to exec into a running pod. For a search filter, the plugin will return a list of pods and containers that match, then perform a `kubectl exec` to the selection.

_Notes:_

Kubectl >= `v1.12.0` is required for plugins to work

For more information on kuberctl plugins see [documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/extend-kubectl/kubectl-plugins/)

## Usage:

```

$ kubectl iexec --help

Kubectl-iexec is an interactive pod and container selector for `kubectl exec`

Arg[1] will act as a filter, any pods that match will be returned in a list

that the user can select from. Subsequent args make up the array of commands that

should be executed on the pod.

example:

kubectl iexec busybox /bin/sh

example:

kubectl iexec busybox cat /etc/hosts

Usage:

  iexec [pod filter] [remote command(s)] [flags]

Flags:

  -c, --container string   Container to search

  -h, --help               help for iexec

  --log-level string   log level (trace|debug|info|warn|error|fatal|panic)

  -x, --naked              Decolorize output

  -n, --namespace string   Namespace to search

  -v, --vim-mode            Vim Mode enabled

  -l, --label string        Label selector to filter pods

```

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## Install:

To install the plugin, the binary simply needs to be somewhere on your path in the format kubectl-[plugin_name]. the simplest way to do this is to `go get` the package:

`go get -u github.com/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec`

Alternatively you may pull the binary from the releases page on Github:

Select OS

```bash

# Linux

OS=LINUX

# Mac

OS=DARWIN

```

Run:

```bash

# Get latest release

TAG=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec/releases/latest | grep -oP '"tag_name": "\K(.*)(?=")')

# Donwload and extract binary to /usr/local/bin

curl -LO https://github.com/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec/releases/download/${TAG}/kubectl-iexec_${TAG}_${OS:-Linux}_x86_64.tar.gz

mkdir -p /tmp/kubectl-iexec

tar -xzvf kubectl-iexec_${TAG}_${OS}_x86_64.tar.gz -C /tmp/kubectl-iexec

chmod +x /tmp/kubectl-iexec/kubectl-iexec

sudo mv /tmp/kubectl-iexec/kubectl-iexec /usr/local/bin

```