stern VS kubectl-status

deploy: stage: deploy image: alpine/k8s:1.29.1 variables: NAMESPACE: $CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG before_script: # init namespace - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl create namespace $NAMESPACE || true # download tools - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern && stern --version - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.32.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/kompose && chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/kompose && kompose version # show logs asynchronously. Timeout to avoid hanging indefinitely when an error occurs in script section - timeout 1200 stern -n $NAMESPACE "app-" --tail=0 --color=always & # in background, tail new logs if any (current and incoming) pod with this regex as name - timeout 1200 kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get events --watch-only & # in background, tail new events in background script: # first delete CrashLoopBackOff pods, polluting logs - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE delete pod `kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get pods --selector app.kubernetes.io/component=$MODULE | awk '$3 == "CrashLoopBackOff" {print $1}'` || true # now deploying - kompose convert --out k8s/ - kubectl apply -n $NAMESPACE -f k8s/ - echo -e "\e[93;1mWaiting for the new app version to be fully operational...\e[0m" # waiting for successful deployment - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-db - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-back - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-front # on any error before this line, the script will still wait for these threads to complete, so the initial timeout is important. Adding these commands to after_script does not help - pkill stern || true - pkill kubectl || true after_script: # show namespace content - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get deploy,service,ingress,pod

The old repo is dead

node-and-git: image: node:18.10-alpine before_script: - apk --no-cache add git kubectl-and-stern: image: alpine/k8s:1.22.13 before_script: # install stern - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern playwright-and-kubectl: image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.35.1-focal before_script: # install kubectl - curl --show-error --silent --location --remote-name https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.25.3/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x ./kubectl && mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/

I'll add stern (https://github.com/stern/stern) to that - follow logs from multiple pods easily.

Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes https://github.com/stern/stern

stern v1.22.0

Link to GitHub Repository

If you are using Kubernetes, I highly recommend using https://github.com/stern/stern

Stern: https://github.com/stern/stern for log streaming

To anyone visiting here, I got a lot of feedback for new tools (which I haven't tried yet), both on Youtube and here, so I compiled it into a list: A comment on Lens: Initially I wanted to include Lens in the video but decided it's a bit different in that it's not a CLI / TUI. Many users shared bad experience with Lens, mainly around performance and a large amount of requests it shoots at the cluster API to a point where some companies banned it. These are the tools (I may add a video review on if anyone thinks it's worth it): * https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl - for an improved kubectl experience * https://github.com/particledecay/kconf - for those with complex kubeconfig changes requirements * https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens - an open version of Lens (note the above before using) * https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor - colored kubectl output :) * https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox - the K9s little brother? * https://github.com/bergerx/kubectl-status - human friendly resource status output