How To Find Short Names for Kubernetes resources in kubectl

2024-03-24

testing the ground

If you use kubectl get replicaset to get the list of replicaSet in your kubernetes cluster, there is also a way to write the command in a shorter way like this:

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kubectl get rs

Now my question was, “okay how do i find out about other short forms?” well, it’s actually pretty simple. You can use the kubectl command to find out about the short names for the resources.

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kubectl api-resources

And here is hte output of the command:

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NAME                              SHORTNAMES   APIVERSION                        NAMESPACED   KIND
bindings                                       v1                                true         Binding
componentstatuses                 cs           v1                                false        ComponentStatus
configmaps                        cm           v1                                true         ConfigMap
endpoints                         ep           v1                                true         Endpoints
events                            ev           v1                                true         Event
limitranges                       limits       v1                                true         LimitRange
namespaces                        ns           v1                                false        Namespace
nodes                             no           v1                                false        Node
persistentvolumeclaims            pvc          v1                                true         PersistentVolumeClaim
persistentvolumes                 pv           v1                                false        PersistentVolume
pods                              po           v1                                true         Pod
podtemplates                                   v1                                true         PodTemplate
replicationcontrollers            rc           v1                                true         ReplicationController
resourcequotas                    quota        v1                                true         ResourceQuota
secrets                                        v1                                true         Secret
serviceaccounts                   sa           v1                                true         ServiceAccount
services                          svc          v1                                true         Service
mutatingwebhookconfigurations                  admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1   false        MutatingWebhookConfiguration
validatingwebhookconfigurations                admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1   false        ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
customresourcedefinitions         crd,crds     apiextensions.k8s.io/v1           false        CustomResourceDefinition
apiservices                                    apiregistration.k8s.io/v1         false        APIService
controllerrevisions                            apps/v1                           true         ControllerRevision
daemonsets                        ds           apps/v1                           true         DaemonSet
deployments                       deploy       apps/v1                           true         Deployment
replicasets                       rs           apps/v1                           true         ReplicaSet
statefulsets                      sts          apps/v1                           true         StatefulSet
selfsubjectreviews                             authentication.k8s.io/v1          false        SelfSubjectReview
tokenreviews                                   authentication.k8s.io/v1          false        TokenReview
localsubjectaccessreviews                      authorization.k8s.io/v1           true         LocalSubjectAccessReview
selfsubjectaccessreviews                       authorization.k8s.io/v1           false        SelfSubjectAccessReview
selfsubjectrulesreviews                        authorization.k8s.io/v1           false        SelfSubjectRulesReview
subjectaccessreviews                           authorization.k8s.io/v1           false        SubjectAccessReview
horizontalpodautoscalers          hpa          autoscaling/v2                    true         HorizontalPodAutoscaler
cronjobs                          cj           batch/v1                          true         CronJob
jobs                                           batch/v1                          true         Job
certificatesigningrequests        csr          certificates.k8s.io/v1            false        CertificateSigningRequest
leases                                         coordination.k8s.io/v1            true         Lease
endpointslices                                 discovery.k8s.io/v1               true         EndpointSlice
events                            ev           events.k8s.io/v1                  true         Event
flowschemas                                    flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1   false        FlowSchema
prioritylevelconfigurations                    flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1   false        PriorityLevelConfiguration
ingressclasses                                 networking.k8s.io/v1              false        IngressClass
ingresses                         ing          networking.k8s.io/v1              true         Ingress
networkpolicies                   netpol       networking.k8s.io/v1              true         NetworkPolicy
runtimeclasses                                 node.k8s.io/v1                    false        RuntimeClass
poddisruptionbudgets              pdb          policy/v1                         true         PodDisruptionBudget
clusterrolebindings                            rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1      false        ClusterRoleBinding
clusterroles                                   rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1      false        ClusterRole
rolebindings                                   rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1      true         RoleBinding
roles                                          rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1      true         Role
priorityclasses                   pc           scheduling.k8s.io/v1              false        PriorityClass
csidrivers                                     storage.k8s.io/v1                 false        CSIDriver
csinodes                                       storage.k8s.io/v1                 false        CSINode
csistoragecapacities                           storage.k8s.io/v1                 true         CSIStorageCapacity
storageclasses                    sc           storage.k8s.io/v1                 false        StorageClass
volumeattachments                              storage.k8s.io/v1                 false        VolumeAttachment

And that’s it. You can use the short names to get the resources in your kubernetes cluster.