Theo's Typesafe Cult•8mo ago

Kubernetes Exec with websockets

So i want to get shell access to my k8s pod from my frontend (using xterm.js) i see k8s node client has a exec method that i can use with streams, but that doesnt seem to work. Can anyone help ?

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nc0•8mo ago

Given that pods are primitive units of jobs containing one or multiple pod (and are therefore independent from the node), you should look into getting a shell in the application container Like

Web App ---O <-- K8s API
           |
           +----[->(Container with shell access) ]
                ^                                ^
                |                                |
                K8s pod -------------------------+

Web App ---O <-- K8s API
           |
           +----[->(Container with shell access) ]
                ^                                ^
                |                                |
                K8s pod -------------------------+

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fero.xd•8mo ago

I didnt understand it fully Are you saying to get shell access to the container running in the pod directly not via k8s api?

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Kubernetes Exec with websockets