Useful commands while working with AKS

Azure CLI commands

#Switch between subscriptions
az account set --subscription "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx"

#Set the context of your current AKS
az aks get-credentials -a  --resource-group resourceGroupName --name aksName --overwrite-existing

#Set the context of your current Namespace in AKS
kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=nameofYourNameSpace

#Kill a pod
Kubectl delete pods NameOfThePod

#interactive RDP session
kubectl exec -it nameOftheContainer -- powershell

#give me environmental variables when you are inside the container
gci env:* | sort-object name

#Delete a pod
kubectl scale deployment nameOfTheDeployment --replicas=0 -n nameSpaceOfTheDeployment

#Restart a pod
kubectl scale deployment nameOfTheDeployment --replicas=1 -n nameSpaceOfTheDeployment

#copy files form local to AKS
kubectl cp /temp/localpath/filename.txt namespaceOftheAKS/NameofTheContainer:/inetpub/wwwroot/App_config/Connectionstrings.config

#copy files form AKS to local
kubectl cp namespaceOftheAKS/NameofTheContainer:/inetpub/wwwroot/App_config/Connectionstrings.config /temp/localpath/test.config




#Connect to AKS cluster
az aks get-credentials -g NAMEOFTHERESOURCEGROUP -n NAMEOFTHECLUSTER

#Powershell 
kubectl exec -i -t -n sitecore NAMEOFTHECMPOD -c cm "--" powershell