kubectl-latest

Describe, get, and logs output from the last deployed Kubernetes object in one command.

• All resources types are supported (including custom resources)
• Arbitrary flags can be passed to the underlying commands
• "get", "describe", and "logs" are the only kubectl output subcommands supported currently
• Automatically be used as a kubectl subcommand through plugin system (installed manually or with krew)

Installing

The only requirement is that kubectl >= 1.11.x must be installed on your system.

Linux

curl -Lo kubectl-latest https://github.com/r2d4/kubectl-latest/releases/download/v0.0.1/kubectl-latest-linux-amd64 && chmod +x kubectl-latest && sudo mv kubectl-latest /usr/local/bin

macOS

curl -Lo kubectl-latest https://github.com/r2d4/kubectl-latest/releases/download/v0.0.1/kubectl-latest-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x kubectl-latest && sudo mv kubectl-latest /usr/local/bin

Windows

https://github.com/r2d4/kubectl-latest/releases/download/v0.0.1/kubectl-latest-windows-amd64.exe

Examples

You can invoke the binary directly kubectl-latest or, if you are using kubectl >= 1.12.x, through kubectl with kubectl latest.

# Return the "get" output of the most recent resource (across all types)
kubectl latest get 

# Return the "get" output of the most recent pod, using with the pod short syntax "po"
kubectl latest po

# or equivalently
kubectl latest get po

# Return the logs of the most recently pod
kubectl latest logs

# Returns the "get" output in yaml format of the most recent deployment. 
# kubectl-latest will pass on arbitrary flags to kubectl
kubectl latest deployment -o yaml

# Return the "describe" output of the most recent service.
kubectl latest describe svc

Building from source

make

make install will install the binary into $GOBIN

make cross will build binaries and checksum files for all targets

Future Work (Currently not supported but contributions welcome!)

• Namespaces other than the default configured one
• Other subcommands that make sense like label, edit, delete, patch, exec, patch, cp.
• Following logs