Purpose

Image containing several useful tools to interact with a Kubernetes cluster

Content

The image contains the following (and usual) packages:

• curl
• jq
• ca-certificates
• git
• vim
• bash-completion

and the following kubernetes related tools:

• kubectl (with bash completion)
• kubectl aliases (https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectl-aliases)
• kubectx / kubens (https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx)
• kube-ps1 (https://github.com/jonmosco/kube-ps1)
• helm client
• k9s

Latest version (1.34.1) contains the following components:

• kubectl: 1.34.1
• helm: 3.19.1
• k9s: 0.50.16

Usage

The following command run a bash shell in a container based on the k8stools images

docker run -ti -v PATH_TO_KUBE_CONFIG:/kubeconfig lucj/k8stools:1.34.1

Once in the shell, you can run any kubectl commands against the cluster corresponding to the kubeconfig file provided.

The great k9s tool is available, just run it with

k9s