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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
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kubectl events breaks table layout on multi-line event messages Open

kind/bug needs-triage sig/cli

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1883 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
`kubectl wait --for=jsonpath`: support inequality/negation operators (`!=`) in addition to `=` Open

kind/feature needs-triage sig/cli

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1881 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2026
kubectl explain: Missing validation error when --api-version is an empty string Open

kind/bug needs-sig needs-triage

kubernetes/kubectl#1882 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Reduce useless duplicate reading of certificate data Open

kind/feature priority/backlog sig/cli triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1880 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Add Option to Automatically Open Browser to a Path when Port Forwarding Open

kind/feature needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1871 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
kubectl completion fish - label support required Open

kind/feature priority/backlog triage/accepted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1870 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Add --skip-logs and --skip-events flags to kubectl cluster-info dump Open

kind/feature needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1866 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Wrong fish completion for debug Open

kind/feature triage/accepted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1861 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Improve support for API categories Open

kind/feature triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1852 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 28, 2026
Please add nushell completion Open

kind/feature triage/accepted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1833 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2026
kubectl get <category> should filter out 403 errors from non authorized types Open

kind/bug sig/api-machinery sig/cli triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1853 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 10, 2026
[Enhancement] Add --share-volumes to kubectl debug Open

kind/feature sig/cli triage/accepted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1820 · 9 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 3, 2025
kubectl suggestion should also include aliases Open

kind/feature priority/backlog triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1795 · 5 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Nov 3, 2025
kubectl describe suffers from N+1 query problem when falling back to prefix search, causing performance issues Open

help wanted kind/bug priority/important-longterm sig/cli sig/scalability triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1769 · 24 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 12, 2025
Port-forward still drops connection after first to PostgreSQL pod in SSL Mode. Open

kind/bug triage/accepted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1746 · 14 comments · 19 reactions · Opened May 22, 2025
kubectl without arguments should print all aliases defined in kuberc file Open

kind/feature priority/backlog triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1740 · 11 comments · 3 assignees · Opened Apr 30, 2025
The resources.limits.memory unit is automatically converted. Why cannot the unit be displayed as configured? Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten sig/cli triage/needs-information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1729 · 16 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2025
Kubectl debug - allow to specify image pull secret Open

area/api area/kubectl kind/feature priority/backlog sig/cli triage/accepted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1671 · 11 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 3, 2024
Could we add a shorthand for --field-selector in kubectl? Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten priority/awaiting-more-evidence sig/cli triage/needs-information

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1649 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2024
how to kubectl wait for job completion regardless of success or failure Open

kind/feature needs-sig sig/cli triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1629 · 15 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 31, 2024
Exit code of `kubectl config delete-*` is not unified Open

kind/feature sig/cli triage/accepted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1641 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2024
Cobra command Kubectl Create does not return error to be handled Open

kind/bug priority/backlog triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1615 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 27, 2024
Kubectl does not support secret creation from `.env` files with multiline values Open

kind/feature needs-triage sig/cli

kubernetes/kubectl#1610 · 21 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 8, 2024
kubectl diff fails to detect differences in Service objects Open

kind/bug needs-kind priority/backlog triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1601 · 15 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 24, 2024
`kubectl describe` sometimes shows memory in millibytes Open

kind/bug triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1597 · 14 comments · 2 assignees · Opened May 8, 2024
`kubectl get --ignore-not-found` behavior unclear Open

kind/feature needs-triage sig/cli

kubernetes/kubectl#1596 · 13 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 3, 2024
kubectl apply --dry-run=client attempts to connect to the server Open

kind/feature needs-sig priority/backlog sig/cli triage/accepted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1589 · 12 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2024
kubectl diff fails to detect deletions made in manifest after kubectl create Open

kind/bug triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1587 · 11 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 22, 2024
Improvement for annotation removal output is needed Open

area/kubectl kind/bug lifecycle/rotten needs-triage sig/cli

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1553 · 12 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2024
`auth can-i` could support GroupVersionResources with * for resource within a specific group Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1549 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 24, 2024
Proposal (cmd/describe): Denote list elements in describe output Open

area/kubectl kind/feature sig/cli triage/accepted

kubernetes/kubectl#1528 · 16 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Support human readable timestamps in `custom-columns` printer Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten needs-triage sig/cli

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1514 · 9 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Nov 4, 2023
Unable to issue --enable-helm to kubectl delete command Open

kind/bug lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1509 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2023
ApplySet: More integration with core components of Kubernetes. Open

kind/feature needs-triage

kubernetes/kubectl#1494 · 24 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Oct 1, 2023
Create a list of all patch releases Open

kind/feature needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1488 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2023
Inconsistent output for kubectl with -o json and without for pvc/pv Open

kind/bug lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1472 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2023
Add verbose flag to kubectl cp Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten needs-triage sig/cli

kubernetes/kubectl#1469 · 12 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 18, 2023
Kubectl explain show "example" section for CRD fields Open

kind/feature lifecycle/stale needs-triage triage/needs-information

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1468 · 14 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2023
kubectl create secret generic --help does not describe type Open

kind/feature lifecycle/stale needs-triage sig/cli

kubernetes/kubectl#1452 · 15 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 24, 2023
port-forward: Support writing json port mapping to file or stdout [PATCH] Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1446 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2023
`kubectl get sts` cannot show its status if it is in terminating Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten triage/accepted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1444 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 21, 2023
Proposal: Deprecate the usage of NoOptDefVal on flags Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

kubernetes/kubectl#1442 · 13 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 15, 2023
kubectl diff fails if diff command requires positional arguments at the end Open

kind/bug lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

kubernetes/kubectl#1436 · 11 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 4, 2023
kubectl diff does not work with applysets Open

area/kubectl kind/bug needs-triage sig/cli

kubernetes/kubectl#1435 · 21 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 1, 2023
Improve inconsistent help messages of some specific commands Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1432 · 19 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 25, 2023
chose address family on kubectl command line? Open

kind/feature lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1430 · 12 comments · Opened May 17, 2023
kubectl cp will return a error "Dropping out copy after 0 retries error: unexpected EOF" Open

kind/bug triage/accepted triage/needs-information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1425 · 9 comments · 7 reactions · Opened May 5, 2023
`kubectl explain -o md` Open

kind/feature needs-triage sig/api-machinery sig/cli

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1419 · 30 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 24, 2023
`kubectl port-forward` for Service should fail if no Pods are Ready Open

kind/bug lifecycle/rotten needs-triage priority/backlog

kubernetes/kubectl#1416 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 19, 2023
kubectl wait sometime doesn't resolve ready condition Open

kind/bug lifecycle/rotten needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes/kubectl#1414 · 20 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 17, 2023

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