Make it easy on yourself – use Kubernetes Short Names

When the Walker Bothers sang ‘Make it easy on yourself’ they was most definitely was not singing about Kubernetes.

However, if you want to make it easy on yourself, learn some of Kubernetes short names and save time typing all those kubectl commands.

Some don’t help much,

% kubectl get nodes
NAME          STATUS   ROLES   AGE   VERSION
10.0.10.154   Ready    node    45h   v1.20.8
10.0.10.179   Ready    node    45h   v1.20.8
10.0.10.95    Ready    node    45h   v1.20.8

or

% kubectl get no
NAME          STATUS   ROLES   AGE   VERSION
10.0.10.154   Ready    node    45h   v1.20.8
10.0.10.179   Ready    node    45h   v1.20.8
10.0.10.95    Ready    node    45h   v1.20.8

But others can be useful, for example:

% kubectl get storageclasses
NAME            PROVISIONER                       RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE      ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE
oci (default)   oracle.com/oci                    Delete          Immediate              false                  45h
oci-bv          blockvolume.csi.oraclecloud.com   Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  45h

or

% kubectl get sc
NAME            PROVISIONER                       RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE      ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE
oci (default)   oracle.com/oci                    Delete          Immediate              false                  45h
oci-bv          blockvolume.csi.oraclecloud.com   Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  45h

Below is a table I have started of Kubernetes Names, Short Names and Kind, as I discover new ones I will add them to the list:

Name	Short Name	Kind
autopilotruleobjects	aro	AutopilotRuleObject
autopilotrules	ar	AutopilotRule
certificatesigningrequests	csr	CertificateSigningRequest
clusterdomainsstatuses	cds	ClusterDomainsStatus
clusterdomainupdates	cdu	ClusterDomainUpdate
componentstatues	cs	ComponentStatus
configmaps	cm	ConfigMap
cronjobs	cj	CronJob
customresourcedefinitions	crd, crds	CustomResourceDefinition
daemonsets	ds	DaemonSet
deployments	deploy	Deployment
endpoints	ep	Endpoints
events	ev	Event
horizontalpodautoscalers	hpa	HorizontalPodAutoscaler
ingresses	ing	Ingress
innodbclusters	ic, ics	InnoDBCluster
limitranges	limits	LimitRange
mysqlbackups	mkb	MySQLBackup
namespaces	ns	Namespace
networkpolicies	netpol	NetworkPolicy
node	no	Node
persistentvolumeclaims	pvc	PersistentVolumeClaim
persistentvolumes	pv	PersistentVolume
poddisruptionbudgets	pdb	PodDisruptionBudget
pods	po	Pod
podsecuritypolicies	psp	PodSecurityPolicy
priorityclasses	pc	PriorityClass
replicasets	rs	ReplicaSet
replicationcontrollers	rc	ReplicationController
resourcequotas	quota	ResourceQuota
serviceaccounts	sa	ServiceAccount
services	svc	Service
statefulsets	sts	StatefulSet
storageclasses	sc	StorageClass
storagenodes	sn	StorageNode
volumeplacementstrategies	vps, vp	VolumePlacementStrategy

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Summary

If you discover a missing entry please let me know, so I can add it to the list.

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