Port-forward a service

Tunnel a cluster service port to localhost

kubectl port-forward svc/<name> 8080:80 -n <ns>
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kubectl73 commands
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More kubectl commands

  • Watch rollout status
    kubectl rollout status deployment/<name> -n <ns>

    Block until rollout completes or times out (use in CI)

  • Rollback deployment
    kubectl rollout undo deployment/<name> -n <ns>

    Revert to the previous revision

  • Scale deployment
    kubectl scale deployment/<name> --replicas=3 -n <ns>

    Immediately change replica count

  • Get events sorted by time
    kubectl get events -A --sort-by='.lastTimestamp'

    Recent cluster events, oldest first — great for post-incident review

  • Server-side dry-run
    kubectl apply --server-side --dry-run=server -f file.yaml

    Validate manifest against live API without applying changes

all 73 kubectl commands