kubectl create -f <yaml file>

[viveknair]

Hey team,

Firstly, I absolutely love the Python client.

That said, I'm running into an issue with how to use the Python client to emulate the behavior from the command line, specifically kubectl create -f <yaml file>

Is there a way that I can accomplish this currently?

Regards,
Vivek

[sebgoa]

The easiest is load the yaml file and use it as body to a specific method, see:

https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/blob/master/examples/create_deployment.py

[viveknair]

Ah, I see that makes a lot of sense thanks.

[inc0]

I will bump this issue - any method that would accept raw datastructure rather than create_namespaced_deployment?

My use case is to create multiple resources of different types in same loop. Think of trying example @sebgoa mentioned, but where https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/blob/master/examples/nginx-deployment.yaml will have more resources (like Namespace or Service)

[mmumshad]

+1 I wonder what is beneath the create_namespaced_* calls. Where can we see the source of these calls?

[nerdinand]

I think at this point the easiest thing to do is just to use kubectl. But I'd really like a built-in solution in the API client too...

[mitar]

I cannot really believe this functionality is not there. So strange.

[JonathanRRogers]

I cannot really believe this functionality is not there. So strange.

I think the purpose of kubernetes-client is to give access to APIs in as flexible a way as possible, not duplicate kubectl. Perhaps higher level functionality like this issue describes would make more sense in a separate library that wraps kubernetes-client.

[sebgoa]

I don't understand the discussion actually. You can create any object with the python client, you just need to find the correct method for it.

what kubectl does is that it adds a bit of parsing to detect the object kind and post on the correct endpoint. You could right a python wrapper that does the same things with this library. But indeed it is available out of the box.

[mitar]

Exactly, there is a bit of this magic: parsing of YAML files, going over each object in them, determining which type it is, and then calling the appropriate create method. This would be great to have here in Python interface.

[eagle9527]

I created an application with the idea of using a yaml template to specify values that need to be changed, passing directly to the dictionary that was created in the past

[micw523]

I'll take a crack at it.

[roycaihw]

/assign @micw523