kreate

kreate is a command line utility that can be used to create the Kubernetes resources that are not support by kubectl create command.

./kreate --help
Create Kubernetes resources that are not supported by `kubectl create`

Usage:
  kreate [flags]
  kreate [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  pvc         Create PVC resources

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for kreate

Use "kreate [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Note

The code structure and the entire idea is just copied from kubectl project.

Examples

• Create a PVC resource yaml with PVC name my-claim

./kreate pvc my-claim --dry-run=client -oyaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: my-claim
  namespace: default
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 10Gi
  storageClassName: ""
status: {}

• Create a PVC resource yaml with PVC name my-claim, storage class gp2-csi and size 20Gi

./kreate pvc my-claim --size 20 --storageclass gp2-csi  --dry-run=client -oyaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: my-claim
  namespace: default
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 20Gi
  storageClassName: gp2-csi
status: {}

Installing kreate

kreate is not available currently using OS package managers. You will have to install it by downloading the released binary from GitHub.

Go to releases page and download the appropriate binary for your operating system and architecture, using either curl or wget commands. And move it to your PATH.

You can figure out the operating system details using the below command

uname -a
Darwin vsap-mac-HW32YFVFWC 23.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.6.0: Mon Jul 29 21:14:30 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.141.2~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64

MacOS

• Download, respective binary (artifacts) from releases, you can specify the expected value for the version var

export VERSION=0.0.1
wget https://github.com/viveksinghggits/kreate/releases/download/v${VERSION}/kreate_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz

• Extract the downloaded .tar.gz file

tar xf kreate_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz

• Move the binary to PATH

mv kreate /usr/local/bin

Using with kubectl

Since kreate is a standalone binary it can easily be used with kubectl as kubectl plugin. More about kubectl plugins can be read here.

Download the kreate binary for your OS and ARCH and move the binary to the $PATH after renaming it to kubectl-kreate. And that's all, now you can easily use kreate with standard kubectl tool like shown below.

kubectl kreate pvc my-claim --size 30 --dry-run=client -oyaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: my-claim
  namespace: default
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 30Gi
  storageClassName: ""
status: {}

Supported Resources

• PersistentVolumeClaim