<p>When a docker container is running it is sometimes helpful to look at <em>runtime configuration</em>.
What is the equivalent command for kubernetes?</p>
<p>I did a search on so for this and came up with some similar questions:   See <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=What+is+the+kubernetes+equivalent">https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=What+is+the+kubernetes+equivalent</a>, but not this question.</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67081888/whats-the-kubectl-equivalent-of-docker-exec-bash-in-kubernetes">What&#39;s the kubectl equivalent of docker exec bash in Kubernetes?</a></p>
</li>
<li><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62312227/docker-volume-and-kubernetes-volume">Docker volume and kubernetes volume</a></p>
</li>
</ul>

PatS
<p>Kubernetes is a container orchestrator, so you'll not find container-level commands.</p>
<p>You can check the container logs:</p>
<pre><code>kubectl logs pod-name

Mon Jan  1 00:00:00 UTC 2001 INFO 0
Mon Jan  1 00:00:01 UTC 2001 INFO 1
Mon Jan  1 00:00:02 UTC 2001 INFO 2
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<p>You can describe a pod to see pod details, as well as possible pull image errors:</p>
<pre><code>kubectl describe pod nginx-deployment-1006230814-6winp

Name:       nginx-deployment-1006230814-6winp
Namespace:  default
Node:       kubernetes-node-wul5/10.240.0.9
Start Time: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:39:49 +0000
Labels:     app=nginx,pod-template-hash=1006230814
Annotations:    kubernetes.io/created-by={&quot;kind&quot;:&quot;SerializedReference&quot;,&quot;apiVersion&quot;:&quot;v1&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:{&quot;kind&quot;:&quot;ReplicaSet&quot;,&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;nginx-deployment-1956810328&quot;,&quot;uid&quot;:&quot;14e607e7-8ba1-11e7-b5cb-fa16&quot; ...
Status:     Running
IP:     10.244.0.6
Controllers:    ReplicaSet/nginx-deployment-1006230814
Containers:
  nginx:
    Container ID:   docker://90315cc9f513c724e9957a4788d3e625a078de84750f244a40f97ae355eb1149
    Image:      nginx
    Image ID:       docker://6f62f48c4e55d700cf3eb1b5e33fa051802986b77b874cc351cce539e5163707
    Port:       80/TCP
    QoS Tier:
      cpu:  Guaranteed
      memory:   Guaranteed
    Limits:
      cpu:  500m
      memory:   128Mi
    Requests:
      memory:       128Mi
      cpu:      500m
    State:      Running
      Started:      Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:39:51 +0000
    Ready:      True
    Restart Count:  0
    Environment:        &lt;none&gt;
    Mounts:
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from default-token-5kdvl (ro)
Conditions:
  Type          Status
  Initialized   True
  Ready         True
  PodScheduled  True
Volumes:
  default-token-4bcbi:
    Type:   Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
    SecretName: default-token-4bcbi
    Optional:   false
QoS Class:      Guaranteed
Node-Selectors: &lt;none&gt;
Tolerations:    &lt;none&gt;
Events:
  FirstSeen LastSeen    Count   From                    SubobjectPath       Type        Reason      Message
  --------- --------    -----   ----                    -------------       --------    ------      -------
  54s       54s     1   {default-scheduler }                        Normal      Scheduled   Successfully assigned nginx-deployment-1006230814-6winp to kubernetes-node-wul5
  54s       54s     1   {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5}  spec.containers{nginx}  Normal      Pulling     pulling image &quot;nginx&quot;
  53s       53s     1   {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5}  spec.containers{nginx}  Normal      Pulled      Successfully pulled image &quot;nginx&quot;
  53s       53s     1   {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5}  spec.containers{nginx}  Normal      Created     Created container with docker id 90315cc9f513
  53s       53s     1   {kubelet kubernetes-node-wul5}  spec.containers{nginx}  Normal      Started     Started container with docker id 90315cc9f513
</code></pre>
<p>If you need see details about a container, use the docker client or whatever other container runtime client for this purpose.</p>
