Sometimes its useful to be able to run some ephemeral containers on kubernetes cluster in order to perform some debugging (i.e. dns resolution, pinging nodes, etc).

Sadly, most of the times, it can be tricky to remember all overrides so here is a small list

Run an ephemeral shell on a random node

1kubectl run -ti...

Spotted this on terraform-provider-kubectl

Turns out you can create a template for go configuration which will add some Env vars and other settings. Very useful if you have multiple test which you want to debug /run which have some env var prerequisites.

 1<component name="ProjectRunConfigurationManager"...