Extracting deploy environment values from a running Kubernetes pod using kubectl get deploy

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 # We had an issue where a development repository of a Nodejs application did not have a dotEnv( .env ) document included. 
#  The environment variables had been defined in a seperate K8s Yaml document which pointed to key:value pairs but this was not
#  easily pulled into a text file; instead I looked for a way to pull the template container keys out from the running pod as seen 
# in the example below

 
 kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

 kubectl -n {namespacehere} get deploy {nameofpoddetailedfromprevious} -ojsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].env}' | jq -r '.[] | {name,value} | join (" = ")'

#note if your environmen varaiables were collecting information specified in a secrets / external configuration you may want to use valuefrom 
# and then you will need to manually collect each of those secret into that pull as well ( examples given below this one ) 

kubectl -n namespacehere get deploy nameofpoddetailedfromprevious -ojsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].env}' | jq -r '.[] | {name,valuefrom} | join (" = ")'


kubectl get secret -n {namespacehere} {nameofpodhere} -o   jsonpath="{.data.nameofsecretkeyhere}" | base64 --decode