SSH into pod

[Eswari]

Hi,

I have exposed my pod externally (public ip).
Tried to ssh to my pod using ssh root@Pod_PublicIP from my local linux box

But I am unable to take ssh.
Is it possible to take ssh to my pod

[Warren Strange]

Rather than setting up ssh, it may be easier to use kubectl exec to get a shell inside your pod:

kubectl exec my-pod-xxx -it /bin/sh 

[eswar...@gmail.com]

Hi Warren Strange,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, But we can use this command where we installed kubectl only.
But I need to take ssh from my local linux machine where I doesn't have kubectl.

Is it possible?

[Warren Strange]

Yes, it is possible, but it is not recommended.  Here is an older article that discusses the issues:

https://jpetazzo.github.io/2014/06/23/docker-ssh-considered-evil/ 

If you *really* need to do this, you must enable sshd in the container, and create a kubernetes service to reach it. You will want to read up on services:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/