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How to SSH to Kubernetes Pod with SSH ProxyCommand using socat

Requirements

  1. socat
  2. kubectl with proper ~/.kube/config that can connect to your cluster
  3. Working knowledge of kubectl client
  4. OpenSSH client

How does it work?

  1. kubectl does port forwarding to sshd port of your pod. I'm using pm2 process managed to keep my services alive in my workstation container. If you have only sshd, easiest to use is dropbear
  2. ProxyCommand of OpenSSH client uses socat to redirect two way fd - to forwarded port of kubectl
  3. Voila! You are in