kubectl cp

kubectl cp man Copy files and directories to and from containers and between containers. https://spacelift.io/blog/kubectl-cp

kubectl cp (--help)

kubectl cp YourRemoteContainer:/yourdestinationdatafolder/ /your/local/folder/
kubectl cp YourNamespace/YourRemoteContainer:/yourdestinationdata/ /your/local/folder/

kubectl cp youfile.txt YourRemoteContainer:/yourdestinationdata
kubectl cp /your/local/folder/* YourRemoteContainer:/yourdestinationdata

kubectl apply -f

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50375826/kubernetes-how-to-download-a-persistentvolumes-content

 apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: myalpinewithvolume
spec:
  containers:
  - name: alpine
    image: alpine:latest
    command: ['ash']
    tty: true
    stdin: true
    volumeMounts:
    - name: myvolume
      mountPath: /myvolume
  volumes:
  - name: myvolume
    persistentVolumeClaim:
      claimName: myPVCtoMount

kubectl cp myalpinedataaccess:/data data/
tar: removing leading '/' from member names

kubectl exec <pod_name> -- ls -la /

kubectl exec myalpine -- df -kh
mount | grep ^/dev/ | grep -v /etc | awk '{print $3}'

Errors

error: source and destination are required
Solution: remove trailing /* from your local directory name 

error: unable to upgrade connection: container not found("your-container")

OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: unable to start container process: exec: "tar": executable file not found in $PATH

Related

• Velero
• docker cp
• Kube-dump
• kubectl.kubernetes.io/default-container
• kubectl exec
• kc.sh import

See also

• kubectl cp
• cp, dd, sftp, scp, rsync, casync, mv, fio, ln, docker cp, kubectl cp, minikube cp, multipass transfer, Copy-Item, Xcopy