kubectl/docs/book/pages/resource_printing/watch.md

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• Continuously Watch and print Resources as they change {% endpanel %}

Watching Resources for changes

Motivation

Print Resources as they are updated.

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It is possible to have kubectl get continuously watch for changes to objects, and print the objects when they are changed or when the watch is reestablished.

{% sample lang="yaml" %}

kubectl get deployments --watch

NAME      DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
nginx     1         1         1            1           6h
nginx2    1         1         1            1           21m

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{% panel style="danger", title="Watch Timeouts" %} Watch timesout after 5 minutes, after which kubectl will re-establish the watch and print the resources. {% endpanel %}

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It is possible to have kubectl get continuously watch for changes to objects without fetching them first using the --watch-only flag.

{% sample lang="yaml" %}

kubectl get deployments --watch-only

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