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Kubernetes File System Explorer + Editor

Kubernetes File System Explorer + Editor

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Kubernetes File System Explorer + Editor
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kubernetes-file-system-explorer-editor README

View & Edit files from Kubernetes Pods Add favorite files or folders per pod for quicker access. Launch a terminal inside a folder

Important: This is a fork of the kubernetes-file-system-explorer https://github.com/sandipchitale/kubernetes-file-system-explorer

Pod's filesystem

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Features

It supports the following commands:

Command Treenode Type Description
k8s.node.terminal (Terminal) Node Start a shell into Node using nsenter. User must set the kubernetes-file-system-explorer.nsenter-image preference value to point to a nsenter image of choice e.g. jpetazzo/nsenter:latest.
k8s.pod.container.terminal (Terminal) Container Starts a shell in the Container. It basically runs:
kubectl exec -it pod-name -c containername -- sh
k8s.pod.container.folder.find (Find) Container Folder Node Show the output of find folderpath in editor. It basically runs:
kubectl exec -it pod-name -c containername -- find /path/to/folder
k8s.pod.container.folder.ls-al (ls -al) Container Folder Node Show the output of ls -al folderpath in editor. It basically runs:
kubectl exec -it pod-name -c containername -- ls -al /path/to/folder
k8s.pod.container.folder.cp-from (kubectl cp from) Container Folder Node kubectl cp from FolderNode to a local folder
k8s.pod.container.folder.cp-to-from-folder (kubectl cp to from folder) Container Folder Node kubectl cp from a local folder to the FolderNode
k8s.pod.container.folder.cp-to-from-file (ls -al) Container Folder Node kubectl cp from a local file to the FolderNode
k8s.pod.container.file.view (View file) Container File Node Show the contents of the file in editor. It basically runs:
kubectl exec -it pod-name -c containername -- cat /path/to/file
k8s.pod.container.file.tail-f (tail -f) Container File Node Tail -f the contents of the file in terminal. It basically runs:
kubectl exec -it pod-name -c containername -- tail -f /path/to/file.
That way you can tail arbitrary files.
k8s.pod.container.file.cp-from (kubectl cp from) Container File Node kubectl cp from FileNode to a local folder

This extension adds tree nodes for the Kubernetes Init Containers, Containers and filesystem of the Kubernetes Containers under the Pod node in the Kubernetes Explorer View. Simply expands the treenode for a Pod to see it's Init Containers, Containers and Container filesystem. For example, the following screenshot shows the:

  • the haveged-445n7 pod
  • the haveged container
  • the haveged container's file system
  • View file command in the context menu of /etc/bash.bashrc file
  • /etc/bash.bashrc file content loaded in a editor tab

How it works

It basically starts at / by running the following Kubectl command in the Pod to get the file listing:

kubectl exec -it pod-name -c containername -- ls -f /

As the tree nodes for directories are expanded e.g. /etc/, it basically runs:

kubectl exec -it pod-name -c containername -- ls -f /etc/

to get listing of files and created tree nodes for them.

Requirements

This extension works with Microsoft Kubernetes extension.

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