Bash function for logging into a Kubernetes container and running a command with support for N-args

.bashrc

function sl() {
    use_namespace="default"
    pod_name=$(kubectl get pods -n ${use_namespace} | awk '{print $1}' | grep api | head -1)
    kubectl exec -it \
        ${pod_name} \
        -n ${use_namespace} \
       -- bash -c ". /opt/venv/bin/activate && sp -q 'index=\"antinex\" AND ${@}' -u trex -p 123321 -i antinex -a splunk-svc:8089 | grep -v urllib3.connectionpool"
       # -- bash -c ". /opt/venv/bin/activate && echo \"sp -q 'index=\"antinex\" AND ${@}' -u trex -p 123321 -a splunk-svc:8089 | grep -v urllib3\" && sp -q '${@}' -u trex -p 123321 -i antinex -a splunk-svc:8089 | grep -v urllib3.connectionpool"
}

sl user-sz
2018-10-10 07:08:49,158 - root - INFO - 2018-10-10 06:40:38.505528 user-sz - INFO - celery=True - found user={'id': 2, 'username': 'trex', 'email': 'bugs@domain.com'} 
2018-10-10 07:08:49,158 - root - INFO - 2018-10-10 06:40:38.228807 user-sz - INFO - created id=2 user=trex email=bugs@domain.com 
2018-10-10 07:08:49,159 - root - INFO - 2018-10-10 06:40:37.955799 user-sz - INFO - creating user=trex email=bugs@domain.com 

and

sl user_api
2018-10-10 07:09:25,545 - root - INFO - 2018-10-10 06:40:37.953570 user-api - INFO - user_api create