Kubernetes: [Question] How do you find out what a pod belongs to (Rep. Controller, Deployment, Replica Set, etc.?

[jason-riddle]

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Pretty much what the title says. I'm asking because sometimes I want to kill a pod for good but I don't remember what I used to create it.

[adohe-zz]

@jason-riddle I think you could check the created-by annotation of pod.

[jason-riddle]

@AdoHe But that's assuming it was set in the first place which I didn't do. However, your suggestion lead to the following.

With the describe call, you can just grep for Controllers.

kubectl describe pods dd-agent-4qwo1 | grep Controllers
# Controllers:      DaemonSet/dd-agent

In the case of a lone pod running, Controllers will be empty.

kubectl describe pods apache | grep Controllers
# Controllers:      <none>

Thanks!

[abhishekanne]

Worked for me:

kubectldescribepod <Podname> -n <namespace> | grep "Controlled By"