port-forward

Forward one or more local ports to a pod.

Forward one or more local ports to a pod. This command requires the node to have ‘socat’ installed.

Use resource type/name such as deployment/mydeployment to select a pod. Resource type defaults to ‘pod’ if omitted.

If there are multiple pods matching the criteria, a pod will be selected automatically. The forwarding session ends when the selected pod terminates, and rerun of the command is needed to resume forwarding.

Command

$ kubectl port-forward TYPE/NAME [options] [LOCAL_PORT:]REMOTE_PORT [...[LOCAL_PORT_N:]REMOTE_PORT_N]

Forward Multiple Ports

Listen on ports 5000 and 6000 locally, forwarding data to/from ports 5000 and 6000 in the pod

kubectl port-forward pod/mypod 5000 6000

Pod in a Workload

Listen on ports 5000 and 6000 locally, forwarding data to/from ports 5000 and 6000 in a pod selected by the deployment

kubectl port-forward deployment/mydeployment 5000 6000

Different Local and Remote Ports

Listen on port 8888 locally, forwarding to 5000 in the pod

kubectl port-forward pod/mypod 8888:5000

Random Local Port

Listen on a random port locally, forwarding to 5000 in the pod

kubectl port-forward pod/mypod :5000


Last modified September 23, 2020: docs update (b46eb86)