k3s/examples/kubectl-container

*** PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to the HEAD of the source tree only. If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you almost certainly want the docs that go with that version.

Documentation for specific releases can be found at releases.k8s.io.

This directory contains a Dockerfile and Makefile for packaging up kubectl into a container.

It's not currently automated as part of a release process, so for the moment this is an example of what to do if you want to package kubectl into a container/your pod.

In the future, we may release consistently versioned groups of containers when we cut a release, in which case the source of gcr.io/google_containers/kubectl would become that automated process.

pod.json is provided as an example of packaging kubectl as a sidecar container, and to help you verify that kubectl works correctly in this configuration.

A possible reason why you would want to do this is to use kubectl proxy as a drop-in replacement for the old no-auth KUBERNETES_RO service. The other containers in your pod will find the proxy apparently serving on localhost.