Kubectl describe

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Possible resource types include (case insensitive): pods (po), services (svc), replicationcontrollers (rc), nodes (no), events (ev), limitranges (limits), persistentvolumes (pv), persistentvolumeclaims (pvc), resourcequotas (quota), namespaces (ns), serviceaccounts, horizontalpodautoscalers (hpa), endpoints (ep) or secrets.

• kubectl describe
• kubectl describe configmaps YOUR_CONFIG_MAP_NAME
• kubectl describe secrets/MY_SECRET_NAME
• kubectl describe nodes
• kubectl describe pod
• kubectl describe pods
• kubectl describe pvc
• kubectl describe pv
• kubectl describe roles
• kubectl describe storageclass
• kubectl describe svc
• kubectl describe deployment mysql
• kubectl describe virtualmachine.kubevirt.io/mitestvm

kubectl describe

error: You must specify the type of resource to describe. Use "kubectl api-resources" for a complete list of supported resources.

Related commands

• kubectl get all
• git describe

See also

• kubectl describe [ nodes | pods | deployment | pv | pvc | secrets | configmaps | networkpolicy | job ]
• kubectl: [ cp | config | create | delete | edit | explain | apply | exec | get | set | drain | uncordon | rolling-update | rollout | logs | run | auth | label | annotate | version | top | diff | debug | replace | describe | port-forward | proxy | scale | rollout | api-resources | expose deployment | expose | patch | attach | get endpoints | ~/.kube/config | kubectl logs --help | kubectl --help, kubectl-convert, kubectl autoscale, kubectl.kubernetes.io
• Kubectl information commands: cluster-info | view | pods | nodes | services | version | describe | logs