Cri Tools

cri-tools Plugin

CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI).

Commands

Information

• cri-tools info get — Get runtime info and stats via CRI
• cri-tools self version — Print crictl version

Pods

• cri-tools pods list — List running pods via CRI

Containers

• cri-tools containers list — List running containers via CRI
• cri-tools containers logs — Fetch container logs via CRI
• cri-tools containers exec — Execute command in a running container via CRI

Images

• cri-tools images list — List container images via CRI
• cri-tools images pull — Pull a container image via CRI

Stats

• cri-tools stats get — List container resource usage statistics via CRI

Passthrough

• cri-tools _ _ — Passthrough to crictl CLI

Usage Examples

• "crictl --help"
• "crictl pods"
• "crictl ps -a"
• "crictl images"
• "crictl logs "
• "crictl exec -it /bin/sh"
• "crictl info"

Installation

VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)
wget https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases/download/$VERSION/crictl-$VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf crictl-$VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin
rm -f crictl-$VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Key Features

• kubernetes
• containers
• debugging
• runtime
• CRI