kubectl Plugins and krew, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Luk Burchard

No matter how you say it, you probably use kubectl all the time. Did you know you can extend it with plugins? Did you know you can find and install those plugins using krew, a plugin manager for kubectl? krew was built by Luk Burchard, a student at TUBerlin, as an intern project. He was supervised by Ahmet Alp Balkan at Google Cloud, and they both join Craig and Adam to discuss it.

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Chatter of the week

• Pluots
• Fox evidence

News of the week

• "Open sourcing" the Kubernetes security audit
• CyberArk's penetration testing methodology
• Docker reverse shells and making it rain shells in Kubernetes by Rory McCune
• Google Cloud Security Scanner: web application vulnerability scanner for GKE
• Knative 0.8 release notes
• Building a Kubernetes platform at Pinterest
• Octant by VMware
• Call to participate in the CNCF Survey
  • Direct link
• Reannouncing the Kubernetes Forum

Links from the interview

• kubectl overview
• Extend kubectl with plugins
• Sample CLI plugin
• Write your own kubectl subcommands and The case for a kubectl plugin manager by Ahmet Alp Balkan
• kustomize becoming a kubectl sub-command
• kubectl access-matrix (a.k.a. rakkess, as a stand-alone binary)
• krew
• krew plugin index
• Ahmet's recruitment tweet
• Luk's first day at Google
• Ahmet Alp Balkan:
  • Web
  • Twitter
• Luk Burchard:
  • Web
  • Twitter