run remote commands between pods - kubernetes

I've a question.
How can I run a netstat command in a pod A from a pod B?, pod A and B are in a different namespace. My pod A stablish connection with a server outside the cluster and my pod B contains a script that convert netstat result in SNMP traps. I can't modify pod A image to include anything. Pod B it's from my own.
Thanks.

If there's no network policies in place then something like this should work :
kubectl exec -it <pod B> -- sh
> ssh user#podA.podAnamespace "your command"
Note that ssh must be installed on the podB and you must have a user to connect with on Pod A.

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How to login/enter in kubernetes pod

I have kubernetes pods running as shown in command "kubectl get all -A" :
and same pods are shown in command "kubectl get pod -A" :
I want to enter/login to any of these pod (all are in Running state). How can I do that please let me know the command?
Kubernetes Pods are not Virtual Machines, so not something you typically can "log in" to.
But you might be able to execute a command in a container. e.g. with:
kubectl exec <pod-name> -- <command>
Note that your container need to contain the binary for <command>, otherwise this will fail.
See also Getting a shell to a container.
In addition to Jonas' answer above;
If you have more than one namespace, you need to specify the namespace your pod is currently using i.e kubectl exec -n <name space here> <pod-name> -it -- /bin/sh
After successfully accessing your pod, you can go ahead and navigate through your container.

Execute a command on Kubernetes node from the master

I would like to execute a command on a node from the master. For e.g let's say I have worker node: kubenode01
Now a pod (pod-test) is running on this node. Using "kubectl get pods --output=wide" on the master shows that the pod is running on this node.
Trying to execute a command on that pod from the master results into an error e.g:
kubectl exec -ti pod-test -- cat /etc/resolv.conf
The result is:
Error from server: error dialing backend: dial tcp 10.0.22.131:10250: i/o timeout
Any idea?
Thanks in advance
You can execute kubectl commands from anywhere as long as your kubeconfig is configured to point to the right cluster URL (kube-apiserver), with the right credentials and the firewall allows connecting to the kube-apiserver port.
In your case, I'd check if your 10.0.22.131:10250 is the real IP:PORT for your kube-apiserver and that you can access it.
Note that kubectl exec -ti pod-test -- cat /etc/resolv.conf runs on the Pod and not on the Node. If you'd like to run on the Node just simply use SSH.
Update:
There are two other alternatives here:
You can create a pod (or debug pod) with a nodeSelector that specifically makes that pod run on the specific node.
If you are trying to debug something on a pod already running on a specific node, you can also try creating a debug ephemeral container.
On newer versions of Kubernetes you can use a debug pod to run something on a specific node
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Check working of an service in kubernetes

I create a pod to test my service in kubernetes. But i didn't get anythings. Here is my command
kubectl run --generator=run-pod/v1 nginx-resolver --image=nginx
kubectl expose pod nginx-resolver --name=nginx-resolver-service --port=80 --target-port=80 --type=ClusterIP
kubectl run --generator=run-pod/v1 test-nslookup --image=busybox:1.28 --rm -it -- nslookup nginx-resolver-service
Please help me explain why. Thanks
Run the following command and get things what you are thinking wrong about this cmd.
$ kubectl run --help
Create and run a particular image, possibly replicated.
Creates a deployment or job to manage the created container(s).
Examples:
# Start a single instance of nginx.
kubectl run nginx --image=nginx
# Start a single instance of hazelcast and let the container expose port 5701 .
kubectl run hazelcast --image=hazelcast --port=5701
...
So, kubectl run cmd creates a deployment or a job
If it is a deployment, it creates (a) first, a replicaset, (b) then Pod(s).
If it is a job, it creates a Pod.
But you are trying to expose a Pod which name is not the correct one. You can see the name of the Pod that is/are created by the cmd kubectl run.
$ kubectl get pods --namespace=<namespace> | grep "nginx-resolver"
$ kubectl get pods --namespace=<namespace> | grep "test-nslookup"
Then use those names to expose Pod.
You can optionally expose your Deployment. To do so, see the help of $ kubectl expose deployment --help. Run:
$ kubectl expose deployment --help
Expose a resource as a new Kubernetes service.
Looks up a deployment, service, replica set, replication controller or pod by name and uses the selector for that
resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A deployment or replica set will be exposed as a
service only if its selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the selector contains only
the matchLabels component. Note that if no port is specified via --port and the exposed resource has multiple ports, all
will be re-used by the new service. Also if no labels are specified, the new service will re-use the labels from the
resource it exposes.
Possible resources include (case insensitive):
pod (po), service (svc), replicationcontroller (rc), deployment (deploy), replicaset (rs)
Examples:
...
# Create a service for an nginx deployment, which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000.
kubectl expose deployment nginx --port=80 --target-port=8000
...
If you want to see the log interactively, you need to set the --restart option of your test-nslookup pod to Never or OnFailure. Otherwise, kubernetes will just restart your pod indefinitely and you won't see anything.
So your last command should be :
kubectl run --generator=run-pod/v1 test-nslookup --image=busybox:1.28 -it --restart=OnFailure -- nslookup nginx-resolver-service
Why ?
Probably because of this issue.
It seems to have a delay of 5s before kubectl run actually print something.
So in order to do it without changing the restart option, you'll need to change your command like this (beware of the sleep 7, so you'll have to wait 7seconds before seeing the logs) :
kubectl run --generator=run-pod/v1 test-nslookup --image=busybox:1.28 -it --rm -- sh -c 'sleep 7; nslookup nginx-resolver-service'

How to access kube-apiserver on command line?

Looking at documentation for installing Knative requires a Kubernetes cluster v1.11 or newer with the MutatingAdmissionWebhook admission controller enabled. So checking the documentation for this I see the following command:
kube-apiserver -h | grep enable-admission-plugins
However, kube-apiserver is running inside a docker container on master. Logging in as admin to master, I am not seeing this on the command line after install. What steps do I need to take to to run this command? Its probably a basic docker question but I dont see this documented anywhere in Kubernetes documentation.
So what I really need to know is if this command line is the best way to set these plugins and also how exactly to enter the container to execute the command line.
Where is kube-apiserver located
Should I enter the container? What is name of container and how do I enter it to execute the command?
I think that answer from #embik that you've pointed out in the initial question is quite decent, but I'll try to shed light on some aspects that can be useful for you.
As #embik mentioned in his answer, kube-apiserver binary actually resides on particular container within K8s api-server Pod, therefore you can free to check it, just execute /bin/sh on that Pod:
kubectl exec -it $(kubectl get pods -n kube-system| grep kube-apiserver|awk '{print $1}') -n kube-system -- /bin/sh
You might be able to propagate the desired enable-admission-plugins through kube-apiserver command inside this Pod, however any modification will disappear once api-server Pod re-spawns, i.e. master node reboot, etc.
The essential api-server config located in /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml. Node agent kubelet controls kube-apiserver runtime Pod, and each time when health checks are not successful kubelet sents a request to K8s Scheduler in order to re-create this affected Pod from primary kube-apiserver.yaml file.
This is old, still if its in the benefit of a needy. The a #Nick_Kh's answer is good enough, just want to extend it.
In case the api-server pod fails to give you the shell access, you may directly execute the command using kubectl exec like this:
kubectl exec -it kube-apiserver-rhino -n kube-system -- kube-apiserver -h | grep enable-admission-plugins
In this case, I wanted to know what are the default admission plugins enabled and every time I tried accessing pod's shell (bash, sh, etc.), ended up with error like this:
[root#rhino]# kubectl exec -it kube-apiserver-rhino -n kube-system -- /bin/sh
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: exec: "/bin/sh": stat /bin/sh: no such file or directory: unknown
command terminated with exit code 126

Service discovery on Kubernetes

I have kubeDNS set up on a bare metal kubernetes cluster. I thought that would allow me to access services as described here (http:// for those who don't want to follow the link), but when I run
curl https://monitoring-influxdb:8083
I get the error
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: monitoring-influxdb
This is true when I run curl on a service name in any namespace. Is this an error with my kubDNS setup or are there different steps I need to take in order to achieve this? I get the expected output when I run the test at the end of this article.
For reference:
kubeDNS controller yaml files
kubeDNS service yaml file
kubelet flags
output of kubectl get svc in default and kube-system namespaces
The service discovery that you're trying to is documented at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-serv‌​ice, and is for communications within one pod talking to an existing service, not from nodes (or the master) to speak to Kubernetes services.
You will want to leverage the DNS for the service in form of <servicename>.<namespace> or <servicename>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local. To see this in operation, kick up an interactive pod with busybox (or use an existing pod of your own) with something like:
kubectl run -i --tty alpine-interactive --image=alpine --restart=Never
and within that shell that is provided there, make an nslookup command. From your example, I'm guessing you're trying to access influxDB from https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/tree/master/deploy/kube-config/influxdb, then it will be installed into the kube-system namespace, and the service name you'd use from another Pod internally to the cluster would be:
monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
For example:
kubectl run -i --tty alpine --image=alpine --restart=Never
If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter.
/ # nslookup monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
Server: 10.96.0.10
Address 1: 10.96.0.10 kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
Name: monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
Address 1: 10.102.27.233 monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
As #Michael Hausenblas pointed out in the comments, curl http://monitoring-influxdb:8086 needs to be run from within a pod. Doing that provided the expected results