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kubectl-run

Run pods in Kubernetes. Specifies pod generator to avoid deprecation error in some K8S versions.

TLDR

Run an nginx pod and expose port 80

$ kubectl run [nginx-dev] --image=nginx --port 80
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Run an nginx pod, setting the TEST_VAR environment variable
$ kubectl run [nginx-dev] --image=nginx --env="[TEST_VAR]=[testing]"
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Show API calls that would be made to create an nginx container
$ kubectl run [nginx-dev] --image=nginx --dry-run=[none|server|client]
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Run an Ubuntu pod interactively, never restart it, and remove it when it exits
$ kubectl run [temp-ubuntu] --image=ubuntu:22.04 --restart=Never --rm -- /bin/bash
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Run an Ubuntu pod, overriding the default command with echo, and specifying custom arguments
$ kubectl run [temp-ubuntu] --image=ubuntu:22.04 --command -- echo [argument1 argument2 ...]
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