<p>Is it possible to describe just 1 container in a pod? </p>

<pre><code>$ kubectl describe pod &lt;pod_name&gt;
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<p>describes all the containers in that pod.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>No, there is no a dedicated command to do that. But you can use <code>kubectl get pods</code> to show the info per container. For example with <a href="https://stedolan.github.io/jq/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>jq</code></a> you can get info for a container by its name:</p>
<pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>kubectl get pod &lt;pod_name&gt; -n &lt;namespace_name&gt; -o json | jq -c  '.spec.containers[] | select( .name | contains(&quot;&lt;container_name&gt;&quot;))'
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