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Does anyone have something similar to this for exec'ing into kubernetes pods? It's usually not the case that the container will have bash, vim, etc., but there is probably something to make it feel more like home.

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You probably don't want either a fully functioning remote shell, or a malleable filesystem for injecting one, since that's precisely the kind of environment that is great for infiltrators to make a pod do something it's not intended to.

if you have a common base system it might be possible to copy/rsync/untar the tools you need and then use them. Ideally you'd want to restart the container/pod once you're done to ensure the tools aren't left around, or their presence causes other weird issues.

I keep this in my snippet manager to be pasted into a kubernetes pod I want to have the tools I'm used to:

    apt-get update; apt-get install -y tmux git ncdu psmisc iproute2 net-tools curl zsh vim; curl -Ls install.ohmyz.sh | sh; chsh -s $(which zsh); exec zsh

It's not automatic but it only takes a second for me to find it and about 10-15s to run.

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