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

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