Kubernetes 101 - Part6 - Get static pods

Static pods are directly managed by the kubelet on a specific node. More about static pods can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/static-pod/

In this post we will take a look at how to find all static pods in a Kubernetes cluster. For a static pod the owner reference kind will be Node.

custom-columns:

❯ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,CONTROLLER:'.metadata.ownerReferences[].kind',NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace | grep Node
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❯ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,CONTROLLER:'.metadata.ownerReferences[].kind',NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace | grep Node | wc -l

jsonpath:

❯ kubectl get pods -A -o=jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.ownerReferences[?(@.kind=="Node")]}'
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❯ kubectl get pods -A -o=jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.ownerReferences[?(@.kind=="Node")]}' | jq
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❯ kubectl get pods -A -o=jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.ownerReferences[?(@.kind=="Node")]}' | jq | grep Node | wc -l

Hope it was useful. Cheers!