kubectl Container Image

Kubectl is a command line tool for communicating with a Kubernetes cluster's control plane, using the Kubernetes API.

How to use this Container Image

To run commands inside the container for the current cluster for which the kubeconfig is available in /root/.kube.config:

podman run --rm --name kubectl\
      registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/kubectl:1.32 get nodes

To pass configuration of a remote cluster to the container:

podman run --rm --name kubectl\
      -v /localpath/to/kubeconfig:/root/.kube/config:Z
      registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/kubectl:1.32 get nodes

Licensing

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

This documentation and the build recipe are licensed as Apache-2.0. The container itself contains various software components under various open source licenses listed in the associated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).

This image is based on openSUSE Tumbleweed.