kubectl exec

• kubectl exec -it my-redis-pod -- /bin/bash (Get a shell to a running container (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/get-shell-running-container/))

• kubectl exec -it my-redis-pod -c my-redis-container -- /bin/bash

kubectl exec my-redis-pod -c my-redis-container /sbin/killall5
kubectl exec [POD] [COMMAND] is DEPRECATED and will be removed in a future version. Use kubectl exec [POD] -- [COMMAND] instead.
command terminated with exit code 2

kubectl exec my-redis-pod -c my-redis-container /sbin/killall
kubectl exec [POD] [COMMAND] is DEPRECATED and will be removed in a future version. Use kubectl exec [POD] -- [COMMAND] instead.
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: exec: "/sbin/killall": stat 
/sbin/killall: no such file or directory: unknown
command terminated with exit code 126

Related commands

• docker exec
• podman exec
• kubectl logs

Activities

• Get a shell to a running container

See also

• kubectl: [ create | delete | edit | apply | exec | get | set | rolling-update | rollout | logs | run | auth | label | version | top | diff | debug | replace | describe | config | port-forward | scale | rollout | api-resources | proxy | expose deployment | expose | get endpoints | ~/.kube/config | kubectl logs --help | kubectl --help
• Kubernetes: CKA, CKS, Kubernetes installation, Kubernetes Workloads, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, KOPS, Cloud services, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes timeline, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind: Pod, Kubernetes namespaces, Changelog/Versions, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors