Show details of a specific resource or group of resources, including metadata, status conditions, events, and container info. Useful for diagnosing why a resource is not ready — check the Events and Conditions sections. For Flux resources (kustomization, helmrelease), shows reconciliation status and last error. For ArgoCD resources (application), shows sync status and health.
ksail workload describe nodes kubernetes-node-emt8.c.myproject.internal
ksail workload describe pods/nginx
# Describe a pod identified by type and name in "pod.json"
ksail workload describe -f pod.json
ksail workload describe pods
# Describe pods by label name=myLabel
ksail workload describe pods -l name=myLabel
# Describe all pods managed by the 'frontend' replication controller
# (rc-created pods get the name of the rc as a prefix in the pod name)
ksail workload describe pods frontend
-A, --all-namespaces If present, list the requested object(s) across all namespaces. Namespace in current context is ignored even if specified with --namespace.
--as string Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.
--as-group stringArray Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
--as-uid string UID to impersonate for the operation.
--as-user-extra stringArray User extras to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.
--cache-dir string Default cache directory (default "~/.kube/cache")
--certificate-authority string Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
--chunk-size int Return large lists in chunks rather than all at once. Pass 0 to disable. (default 500)
--client-certificate string Path to a client certificate file for TLS
--client-key string Path to a client key file for TLS
--cluster string The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
--context string The name of the kubeconfig context to use
--disable-compression If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
-f, --filename strings Filename, directory, or URL to files containing the resource to describe
--insecure-skip-tls-verify If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
--kubeconfig string Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests. (default "~/.kube/config")
-k, --kustomize string Process the kustomization directory. This flag can't be used together with -f or -R.
-n, --namespace string If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
-R, --recursive Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
--request-timeout string The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests. (default "0")
-l, --selector string Selector (label query) to filter on, supports '=', '==', '!=', 'in', 'notin'.(e.g. -l key1=value1,key2=value2,key3 in (value3)). Matching objects must satisfy all of the specified label constraints.
-s, --server string The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
--show-events If true, display events related to the described object. (default true)
--tls-server-name string Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
--token string Bearer token for authentication to the API server
--user string The name of the kubeconfig user to use
--benchmark Show per-activity benchmark output
--config string Path to config file (default: ksail.yaml found via directory traversal)
