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[cloud-running-a-container]: No resources found in default namespace


I did a small deployment in K8s using Docker image but it is not showing in deployment but only showing in pods. Reason: It is not creating any default namespace in deployments.

Please suggest:

Following are the commands I used.

$ kubectl run hello-node --image=gcr.io/$DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID/hello-node:1.0 --port=8080 --namespace=default
pod/hello-node created

$ kubectl get pods
NAME         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
hello-node   1/1     Running   0          12s

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE     NAME                                                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
default       hello-node                                                 1/1     Running   0          9m9s
kube-system   event-exporter-v0.2.5-599d65f456-4dnqw                     2/2     Running   0          23m
kube-system   kube-proxy-gke-hello-world-default-pool-c09f603f-3hq6      1/1     Running   0          23m

$ kubectl get deployments
**No resources found in default namespace.**

$ kubectl get deployments --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE     NAME                                       READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
kube-system   event-exporter-v0.2.5                      1/1     1            1           170m
kube-system   fluentd-gcp-scaler                         1/1     1            1           170m
kube-system   heapster-gke                               1/1     1            1           170m
kube-system   kube-dns                                   2/2     2            2           170m
kube-system   kube-dns-autoscaler                        1/1     1            1           170m
kube-system   l7-default-backend                         1/1     1            1           170m
kube-system   metrics-server-v0.3.1                      1/1     1            1           170m

Solution

  • Arghya Sadhu's answer is correct. In the past kubectl run command indeed created by default a Deployment instead of a Pod. Actually in the past you could use it with so called generators and you were able to specify exactly what kind of resource you want to create by providing --generator flag followed by corresponding value. Currently --generator flag is deprecated and has no effect.

    Note that you've got quite clear message after running your kubectl run command:

    $ kubectl run hello-node --image=gcr.io/$DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID/hello-node:1.0 --port=8080 --namespace=default
    pod/hello-node created
    

    It clearly says that the Pod hello-node was created. It doesn't mention about a Deployment anywhere.

    As an alternative to using imperative commands for creating either Deployments or Pods you can use declarative approach:

    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    metadata:
      name: hello-node
      namespace: default
      labels:
        app: hello-node
    spec:
      replicas: 3
      selector:
        matchLabels:
          app: hello-node
      template:
        metadata:
          labels:
            app: hello-node
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: hello-node-container
            image: gcr.io/$DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID/hello-node:1.0
            ports:
            - containerPort: 8080
    

    Declaration of namespace can be ommitted in this case as by default all resources are deployed into the default namespace.

    After saving the file e.g. as nginx-deployment.yaml you just need to run:

    kubectl apply -f nginx-deployment.yaml
    

    Update:

    Expansion of the environment variables within the yaml manifest actually doesn't work so the following line from the above deployment example cannot be used:

    image: gcr.io/$DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID/hello-node:1.0
    

    The simplest workaround is a fairly simple sed "trick".

    First we need to change a bit our project id's placeholder in our deployment definition yaml. It may look like this:

    image: gcr.io/{{DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID}}/hello-node:1.0
    

    Then when applying the deployment definition instead of simple kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml run this one-liner:

    sed "s/{{DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID}}/$DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID/g" deployment.yaml | kubectl apply -f -
    

    The above command tells sed to search through deployment.yaml document for {{DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID}} string and each time this string occurs, to substitute it with the actual value of $DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID environment variable.