Kubectl krew plugin

Krew is a kubectl plugin manager. With Krew you can discover, install and manage kubectl plugins.

Install Krew following the instructions in the official documentation

  • Listing the plugin available
kubectl krew search
  • Getting plugin info (we consider the plugin named tree in this example)
This plugin shows sub-resources of a specified Kubernetes API object in a tree view in the command-line 
kubectl krew info tree
  • Installing a plugin
kubectl krew install tree
  • Using the plugin

Calling a plugin is done with the command kubectl krew PLUGIN_NAME ARGS

kubectl krew tree deploy www