podman-kube-apply(1) General Commands Manual podman-kube-apply(1)
NAME
podman-kube-apply - Apply Kubernetes YAML based on containers, pods, or
volumes to a Kubernetes cluster
SYNOPSIS
podman kube apply [options] [container... | pod... | volume...]
DESCRIPTION
podman kube apply deploys a podman container, pod, or volume to a Kuber-
netes cluster. Use the --file option to deploy a Kubernetes YAML (v1
specification) to a Kubernetes cluster as well.
Note that the Kubernetes YAML file can be used to run the deployment in
Podman via podman-play-kube(1).
OPTIONS
--ca-cert-file=ca cert file path | insecure
The path to the CA cert file for the Kubernetes cluster. Usually the
kubeconfig has the CA cert file data and generate kube automatically
picks that up if it is available in the kubeconfig. If no CA cert file
data is available, set this to insecure to bypass the certificate veri-
fication.
--file, -f=kube yaml filepath
Path to the kubernetes yaml file to deploy onto the kubernetes cluster.
This file can be generated using the podman kube generate command. The
input may be in the form of a yaml file, or stdin. For stdin, use
--file=-.
--kubeconfig, -k=kubeconfig filepath
Path to the kubeconfig file to be used when deploying the generated kube
yaml to the Kubernetes cluster. The environment variable KUBECONFIG can
be used to set the path for the kubeconfig file as well. Note: A kube-
config can have multiple cluster configurations, but kube generate al-
ways picks the first cluster configuration in the given kubeconfig.
--ns=namespace
The namespace or project to deploy the workloads of the generated kube
yaml to in the Kubernetes cluster.
--service, -s
Used to create a service for the corresponding container or pod being
deployed to the cluster. In particular, if the container or pod has
portmap bindings, the service specification includes a NodePort declara-
tion to expose the service. A random port is assigned by Podman in the
service specification that is deployed to the cluster.
EXAMPLES
Apply a podman volume and container to the "default" namespace in a Ku-
bernetes cluster.
$ podman kube apply --kubeconfig /tmp/kubeconfig myvol vol-test-1
Deploying to cluster...
Successfully deployed workloads to cluster!
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
vol-test-1-pod 1/1 Running 0 9m
Apply a Kubernetes YAML file to the "default" namespace in a Kubernetes
cluster.
$ podman kube apply --kubeconfig /tmp/kubeconfig -f vol.yaml
Deploying to cluster...
Successfully deployed workloads to cluster!
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
vol-test-2-pod 1/1 Running 0 9m
Apply a Kubernetes YAML file to the "test1" namespace in a Kubernetes
cluster.
$ podman kube apply --kubeconfig /tmp/kubeconfig --ns test1 vol-test-3
Deploying to cluster...
Successfully deployed workloads to cluster!
$ kubectl get pods --namespace test1
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
vol-test-3-pod 1/1 Running 0 9m
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-container(1), podman-pod(1), podman-kube-play(1), pod-
man-kube-generate(1)
HISTORY
September 2022, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani (umohnani at red-
hat dot com)
podman-kube-apply(1)
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