Recently I had to write some code that had to call the kubernetes API directly, without any language wrappers. While there is pretty good reference docs, I didn’t want to go and construct all the JSON manually in my programming language. I discovered that kubectl’s -v parameter is very useful for this! With this, I can do the following: Perform the actions I need to perform with just kubectl commands Pass -v=8 to kubectl when doing this, and this will print all the HTTP traffic (requests ...