What is the kubernetes equivalent of docker inspect? - kubernetes

Question

When a docker container is running it is sometimes helpful to look at runtime configuration.
What is the equivalent command for kubernetes?
I did a search on so for this and came up with some similar questions: See https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=What+is+the+kubernetes+equivalent, but not this question.
What's the kubectl equivalent of docker exec bash in Kubernetes?
Docker volume and kubernetes volume

Answer 1

Kubernetes is a container orchestrator, so you'll not find container-level commands.
You can check the container logs:
kubectl logs pod-name
Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 2001 INFO 0
Mon Jan 1 00:00:01 UTC 2001 INFO 1
Mon Jan 1 00:00:02 UTC 2001 INFO 2
You can describe a pod to see pod details, as well as possible pull image errors:
kubectl describe pod nginx-deployment-1006230814-6winp
Name: nginx-deployment-1006230814-6winp
Namespace: default
Node: kubernetes-node-wul5/10.240.0.9
Start Time: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:39:49 +0000
Labels: app=nginx,pod-template-hash=1006230814
Annotations: kubernetes.io/created-by={"kind":"SerializedReference","apiVersion":"v1","reference":{"kind":"ReplicaSet","namespace":"default","name":"nginx-deployment-1956810328","uid":"14e607e7-8ba1-11e7-b5cb-fa16" ...
Status: Running
IP: 10.244.0.6
Controllers: ReplicaSet/nginx-deployment-1006230814
Containers:
nginx:
Container ID: docker://90315cc9f513c724e9957a4788d3e625a078de84750f244a40f97ae355eb1149
Image: nginx
Image ID: docker://6f62f48c4e55d700cf3eb1b5e33fa051802986b77b874cc351cce539e5163707
Port: 80/TCP
QoS Tier:
cpu: Guaranteed
memory: Guaranteed
Limits:
cpu: 500m
memory: 128Mi
Requests:
memory: 128Mi
cpu: 500m
State: Running
Started: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:39:51 +0000
Ready: True
Restart Count: 0
Environment: <none>
Mounts:
/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from default-token-5kdvl (ro)
Conditions:
Type Status
Initialized True
Ready True
PodScheduled True
Volumes:
default-token-4bcbi:
Type: Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
SecretName: default-token-4bcbi
Optional: false
QoS Class: Guaranteed
Node-Selectors: <none>
Tolerations: <none>
Events:
FirstSeen LastSeen Count From SubobjectPath Type Reason Message
--------- -------- ----- ---- ------------- -------- ------ -------
54s 54s 1 {default-scheduler } Normal Scheduled Successfully assigned nginx-deployment-1006230814-6winp to kubernetes-node-wul5
54s 54s 1 {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5} spec.containers{nginx} Normal Pulling pulling image "nginx"
53s 53s 1 {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5} spec.containers{nginx} Normal Pulled Successfully pulled image "nginx"
53s 53s 1 {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5} spec.containers{nginx} Normal Created Created container with docker id 90315cc9f513
53s 53s 1 {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5} spec.containers{nginx} Normal Started Started container with docker id 90315cc9f513
If you need see details about a container, use the docker client or whatever other container runtime client for this purpose.