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Manage KubeDB objects using CLIs

KubeDB CLI

KubeDB comes with its own cli. It is called kubedb cli. kubedb can be used to manage any KubeDB object. kubedb cli also performs various validations to improve ux. To install KubeDB cli on your workstation, follow the steps here.

How to Create objects

kubedb create creates a database CRD object in default namespace by default. Following command will create a Redis object as specified in redis.yaml.

$ kubedb create -f redis-demo.yaml
redis.kubedb.com/redis-demo created

You can provide namespace as a flag --namespace. Provided namespace should match with namespace specified in input file.

$ kubedb create -f redis-demo.yaml --namespace=kube-system
redis.kubedb.com/redis-demo created

kubedb create command also considers stdin as input.

cat redis-demo.yaml | kubedb create -f -

To learn about various options of create command, please visit here.

How to List Objects

kubedb get command allows users to list or find any KubeDB object. To list all Redis objects in default namespace, run the following command:

$ kubedb get redis
NAME         VERSION   STATUS    AGE
redis-demo   4.0-v1    Running   13s
redis-dev    4.0-v1    Running   13s
redis-prod   4.0-v1    Running   13s
redis-qa     4.0-v1    Running   13s

To get YAML of an object, use --output=yaml flag.

$ kubedb get redis redis-demo --output=yaml
apiVersion: kubedb.com/v1alpha1
kind: Redis
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2018-10-01T08:14:27Z
  finalizers:
  - kubedb.com
  generation: 1
  labels:
    kubedb: cli-demo
  name: redis-demo
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "18201"
  selfLink: /apis/kubedb.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/redises/redis-demo
  uid: 039aeaa1-c552-11e8-9ba7-0800274bef12
spec:
  mode: Standalone
  podTemplate:
    controller: {}
    metadata: {}
    spec:
      resources: {}
  replicas: 1
  serviceTemplate:
    metadata: {}
    spec: {}
  storage:
    accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: 50Mi
    storageClassName: standard
  storageType: Durable
  terminationPolicy: Pause
  updateStrategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
  version: 4.0-v1
status:
  observedGeneration: 1$7916315637361465932
  phase: Running

To get JSON of an object, use --output=json flag.

kubedb get redis redis-demo --output=json

To list all KubeDB objects, use following command:

$ kubedb get all -o wide
NAME                          VERSION   STATUS    AGE
redis.kubedb.com/redis-demo   4.0-v1    Running   3m
redis.kubedb.com/redis-dev    4.0-v1    Running   3m
redis.kubedb.com/redis-prod   4.0-v1    Running   3m
redis.kubedb.com/redis-qa     4.0-v1    Running   3m

Flag --output=wide is used to print additional information.

List command supports short names for each object types. You can use it like kubedb get <short-name>. Below are the short name for KubeDB objects:

• Redis: rd
• DormantDatabase: drmn

You can print labels with objects. The following command will list all Redis with their corresponding labels.

$ kubedb get rd --show-labels
NAME         VERSION   STATUS    AGE       LABELS
redis-demo   4.0-v1    Running   4m        kubedb=cli-demo

To print only object name, run the following command:

$ kubedb get all -o name
redis/redis-demo
redis/redis-dev
redis/redis-prod
redis/redis-qa

To learn about various options of get command, please visit here.

How to Describe Objects

kubedb describe command allows users to describe any KubeDB object. The following command will describe Redis database redis-demo with relevant information.

$ kubedb describe rd redis-demo
Name:               redis-demo
Namespace:          default
CreationTimestamp:  Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:14:27 +0600
Labels:             kubedb=cli-demo
Annotations:        <none>
Replicas:           1  total
Status:             Running
  StorageType:      Durable
Volume:
  StorageClass:  standard
  Capacity:      50Mi
  Access Modes:  RWO

StatefulSet:
  Name:               redis-demo
  CreationTimestamp:  Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:14:31 +0600
  Labels:               kubedb=cli-demo
                        kubedb.com/kind=Redis
                        kubedb.com/name=redis-demo
  Annotations:        <none>
  Replicas:           824640807604 desired | 1 total
  Pods Status:        1 Running / 0 Waiting / 0 Succeeded / 0 Failed

Service:
  Name:         redis-demo
  Labels:         kubedb.com/kind=Redis
                  kubedb.com/name=redis-demo
  Annotations:  <none>
  Type:         ClusterIP
  IP:           10.102.148.196
  Port:         db  6379/TCP
  TargetPort:   db/TCP
  Endpoints:    172.17.0.4:6379

No Snapshots.

Events:
  Type    Reason      Age   From            Message
  ----    ------      ----  ----            -------
  Normal  Successful  5m    Redis operator  Successfully created Service
  Normal  Successful  5m    Redis operator  Successfully created StatefulSet
  Normal  Successful  5m    Redis operator  Successfully created Redis
  Normal  Successful  5m    Redis operator  Successfully patched StatefulSet
  Normal  Successful  5m    Redis operator  Successfully patched Redis

kubedb describe command provides following basic information about a Redis database.

• StatefulSet
• Storage (Persistent Volume)
• Service
• Monitoring system (If available)

To hide events on KubeDB object, use flag --show-events=false

To describe all Redis objects in default namespace, use following command

kubedb describe rd

To describe all Redis objects from every namespace, provide --all-namespaces flag.

kubedb describe rd --all-namespaces

To describe all KubeDB objects from every namespace, use the following command:

kubedb describe all --all-namespaces

You can also describe KubeDB objects with matching labels. The following command will describe all Redis objects with specified labels from every namespace.

kubedb describe rd --all-namespaces --selector='group=dev'

To learn about various options of describe command, please visit here.

How to Edit Objects

kubedb edit command allows users to directly edit any KubeDB object. It will open the editor defined by KUBEDB_EDITOR, or EDITOR environment variables, or fall back to nano.

Lets edit an existing running Redis object to setup Monitoring. The following command will open Redis redis-demo in editor.

$ kubedb edit rd redis-demo
#spec:
#  monitor:
#    agent: prometheus.io/builtin

redis "redis-demo" edited

Edit Restrictions

Various fields of a KubeDB object can’t be edited using edit command. The following fields are restricted from updates for all KubeDB objects:

• apiVersion
• kind
• metadata.name
• metadata.namespace

If StatefulSets exists for a Redis database, following fields can’t be modified as well.

• spec.storageType
• spec.storage
• spec.podTemplate.spec.nodeSelector
• spec.podTemplate.spec.env

For DormantDatabase, spec.origin can’t be edited using kubedb edit

To learn about various options of edit command, please visit here.

How to Delete Objects

kubedb delete command will delete an object in default namespace by default unless namespace is provided. The following command will delete a Redis redis-dev in default namespace

$ kubedb delete redis redis-dev
redis.kubedb.com "redis-dev" deleted

You can also use YAML files to delete objects. The following command will delete a redis using the type and name specified in redis.yaml.

$ kubedb delete -f redis-demo.yaml
redis.kubedb.com "redis-dev" deleted

kubedb delete command also takes input from stdin.

cat redis-demo.yaml | kubedb delete -f -

To delete database with matching labels, use --selector flag. The following command will delete redis with label redis.kubedb.com/name=redis-demo.

kubedb delete redis -l redis.kubedb.com/name=redis-demo

To learn about various options of delete command, please visit here.

Using Kubectl

You can use Kubectl with KubeDB objects like any other CRDs. Below are some common examples of using Kubectl with KubeDB objects.

# List objects
$ kubectl get redis
$ kubectl get redis.kubedb.com

# Delete objects
$ kubectl delete redis <name>

Next Steps

• Learn how to use KubeDB to run a Redis database here.
• Learn how to use custom configuration in Redis with KubeDB here
• Wondering what features are coming next? Please visit here.
• Want to hack on KubeDB? Check our contribution guidelines.