How To Add Debugging Tools to Your Pods | Kubernetes Strategic Patch Merge

Describing how to troubleshoot Kubernetes pods errors by adding a sidecar container that will include all the required tools for your debugging session.
In this video I use a strategic merge patch to update my Kubernetes Deployment with a pod that share the same process namespace as my application container.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Building the Docker image
01:02 - Creating the deployment
02:49 - Strategic merge patch
03:47 - Accessing the other container

💻 Commands used during the video
### Build app

sudo docker build -t myservice/node:10-slim .
sudo docker tag myservice/node:10-slim vnugget/myservice-node:10-slim
sudo docker image ls
sudo docker push vnugget/myservice-node:10-slim

### Install app
kubectl get pod -o wide
kubectl get node -o wide
ps
ls /proc/27/root/usr/src/app/
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