Kubectl: Dots in pod name are not supported in get describe commands

[adambro]

What happened:

The pod name after . seems to be truncated for describe and get commands. Example:

kubectl describe -n kube-system 'fluentd-es-v2.4.0-mwljf'
error: the server doesn't have a resource type "fluentd-es-v2"

What you expected to happen:

I expect this to be working, because logs command does not have this issue and returns logs as expected:

kubectl logs -n kube-system fluentd-es-v2.4.0-mwljf

No need to quote the name, so it's not some ZSH (my shell) interpreting dots problem.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

I guess any pod name with dot in it will do.

Anything else we need to know?:

N/A

Environment:

• Kubernetes client and server versions (use kubectl version):

kubectl version                                                       
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"20", GitVersion:"v1.20.4", GitCommit:"e87da0bd6e03ec3fea7933c4b5263d151aafd07c", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-02-18T16:12:00Z", GoVersion:"go1.15.8", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"12", GitVersion:"v1.12.10", GitCommit:"e3c134023df5dea457638b614ee17ef234dc34a6", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-07-08T03:40:54Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.8", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

• Cloud provider or hardware configuration: AWS, not sure that's relevant
• OS (e.g: cat /etc/os-release): Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop

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[pacoxu]

It should be
kubectl describe -n kube-system pod 'fluentd-es-v2.4.0-mwljf'

/sig cli

[adambro]

Indeed, I've made the params order on CLI wrong. Thanks for pointing this out. Beginner mistake I guess.