Other Tools

1: Mapping from dockercli to crictl

Kubernetes contains several tools to help you work with the Kubernetes system.

crictl

crictl is a command-line interface for inspecting and debugging CRI-compatible container runtimes.

Dashboard

Dashboard, the web-based user interface of Kubernetes, allows you to deploy containerized applications to a Kubernetes cluster, troubleshoot them, and manage the cluster and its resources itself.

Helm

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Helm is a tool for managing packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources. These packages are known as Helm charts.

Helm is a third party managed tool for managing packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources, aka Kubernetes charts.

Use Helm to:

Find and use popular software packaged as Kubernetes charts
Share your own applications as Kubernetes charts
Create reproducible builds of your Kubernetes applications
Intelligently manage your Kubernetes manifest files
Manage releases of Helm packages

Kompose

Kompose is a tool to help Docker Compose users move to Kubernetes.

Use Kompose to:

Translate a Docker Compose file into Kubernetes objects
Go from local Docker development to managing your application via Kubernetes
Convert v1 or v2 Docker Compose yaml files or Distributed Application Bundles

Kui

Kui is a GUI tool that takes your normal kubectl command line requests and responds with graphics.

Kui takes the normal kubectl command line requests and responds with graphics. Instead of ASCII tables, Kui provides a GUI rendering with tables that you can sort.

Kui lets you:

Directly click on long, auto-generated resource names instead of copying and pasting
Type in kubectl commands and see them execute, even sometimes faster than kubectl itself
Query a Job and see its execution rendered as a waterfall diagram
Click through resources in your cluster using a tabbed UI

Minikube

minikube is a tool that runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally on your workstation for development and testing purposes.

1 - Mapping from dockercli to crictl

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crictl is a command-line interface for CRI-compatible container runtimes. You can use it to inspect and debug container runtimes and applications on a Kubernetes node. crictl and its source are hosted in the cri-tools repository.

This page provides a reference for mapping common commands for the docker command-line tool into the equivalent commands for crictl.

Mapping from docker CLI to crictl

The exact versions for the mapping table are for docker CLI v1.40 and crictl v1.19.0. This list is not exhaustive. For example, it doesn't include experimental docker CLI commands.

Note: The output format of crictl is similar to docker CLI, despite some missing columns for some CLI. Make sure to check output for the specific command if your command output is being parsed programmatically.

Retrieve debugging information

mapping from docker cli to crictl - retrieve debugging information
docker cli	crictl	Description	Unsupported Features
`attach`	`attach`	Attach to a running container	`--detach-keys`, `--sig-proxy`
`exec`	`exec`	Run a command in a running container	`--privileged`, `--user`, `--detach-keys`
`images`	`images`	List images
`info`	`info`	Display system-wide information
`inspect`	`inspect`, `inspecti`	Return low-level information on a container, image or task
`logs`	`logs`	Fetch the logs of a container	`--details`
`ps`	`ps`	List containers
`stats`	`stats`	Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics	Column: NET/BLOCK I/O, PIDs
`version`	`version`	Show the runtime (Docker, ContainerD, or others) version information

Perform Changes

mapping from docker cli to crictl - perform changes
docker cli	crictl	Description	Unsupported Features
`create`	`create`	Create a new container
`kill`	`stop` (timeout = 0)	Kill one or more running container	`--signal`
`pull`	`pull`	Pull an image or a repository from a registry	`--all-tags`, `--disable-content-trust`
`rm`	`rm`	Remove one or more containers
`rmi`	`rmi`	Remove one or more images
`run`	`run`	Run a command in a new container
`start`	`start`	Start one or more stopped containers	`--detach-keys`
`stop`	`stop`	Stop one or more running containers
`update`	`update`	Update configuration of one or more containers	`--restart`, `--blkio-weight` and some other resource limit not supported by CRI.

Supported only in crictl

mapping from docker cli to crictl - supported only in crictl
crictl	Description
`imagefsinfo`	Return image filesystem info
`inspectp`	Display the status of one or more pods
`port-forward`	Forward local port to a pod
`pods`	List pods
`runp`	Run a new pod
`rmp`	Remove one or more pods
`stopp`	Stop one or more running pods