Pod Lifecycle and Commands in Kubernetes

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Pod Lifecycle and Commands

Inspect, enter, and forward ports to Pods.

bash
kubectl get pods
kubectl logs web
๐Ÿ“Œ Pods are replaceable, not durable servers
๐Ÿ’ก Specify the container in multi-container Pods
๐Ÿ” port-forward is intended for local access
โš ๏ธ exec and port-forward require RBAC permission
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