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DZone > Cloud Zone > Kubernetes: Writing Hostname to a File

Kubernetes: Writing Hostname to a File

Learn how you can write a machine's hostname to a file using Kubernetes and the pods therein. A simple, but handy trick to get a hold of Kubernetes.

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Nov. 27, 16 · Cloud Zone · Tutorial
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Over the weekend I spent a bit of time playing around with Kubernetes and to get the hang of the technology I set myself the task of writing the hostname of the machine to a file.

I’m using the excellent minikube tool to create a local Kubernetes cluster for my experiments, so the first step is to spin that up:

$ minikube start
Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
Kubectl is now configured to use the cluster.

The first thing I needed to work out how to get the hostname. I figured there was probably an environment variable that I could access. We can call the env command to see a list of all the environment variables in a container so I created a pod template that would show me that information:

Hostname_Super_Simple.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: mark-super-simple-test-pod
spec:
  containers:
    - name: test-container
      image: gcr.io/google_containers/busybox:1.24
      command: [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "env" ]      
  dnsPolicy: Default
  restartPolicy: Never

I then created a pod from that template and checked the logs of that pod:

$ kubectl create -f hostname_super_simple.yaml 
pod "mark-super-simple-test-pod" created
$ kubectl logs  mark-super-simple-test-pod
KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT=443
KUBERNETES_PORT=tcp://10.0.0.1:443
HOSTNAME=mark-super-simple-test-pod
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
KUBERNETES_PORT_443_TCP_ADDR=10.0.0.1
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
KUBERNETES_PORT_443_TCP_PORT=443
KUBERNETES_PORT_443_TCP_PROTO=tcp
KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT_HTTPS=443
KUBERNETES_PORT_443_TCP=tcp://10.0.0.1:443
PWD=/
KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST=10.0.0.1

The information we need is in $HOSTNAME so the next thing we need to do is created a pod template which puts that into a file.

Hostname_Simple.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: mark-test-pod
spec:
  containers:
    - name: test-container
      image: gcr.io/google_containers/busybox:1.24
      command: [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "echo $HOSTNAME > /tmp/bar; cat /tmp/bar" ]
  dnsPolicy: Default
  restartPolicy: Never

We can create a pod using this template by running the following command:

$ kubectl create -f hostname_simple.yaml
pod "mark-test-pod" created

Now let’s check the logs of the instance to see whether our script worked:

$ kubectl logs mark-test-pod
mark-test-pod

Indeed it did, good times!

Kubernetes

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