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Diagnostics and port-forwardingKubernetes

kubectl exec

Run commands within containerized workloads.

Command
kubectl exec -it -- /bin/sh

Example usage

Open interactive shells or run single commands inside pods.

kubectl exec -it <pod> -- /bin/sh
kubectl exec <pod> -- env

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