Helperpod – A CLI tool to run a Kubernetes utility pod with pre-installed tools that can be used for debugging/testing purposes inside a Kubernetes cluster

Helperpod is a CLI tool to run a Kubernetes utility pod with pre-installed tools that can be used for debugging/testing purposes inside a Kubernetes cluster.

Pre-requisites

  • Docker (For building and pushing the image)
  • kubectl (Or the kubeconfig file either located in default ~/.kube/config path, or an environment variable named KUBECONFIG pointed to a specific config file path)

Usage

  • Install the required libraries
python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt
  • Configure container registry information, this can be either done via manually editing the config.json file or via the CLI itself.