1.6 – Compatibility with kubectl plugins

Changes since last stable release (1.4):

• Improved placement of context and namespace options in the final bash command
  • Formerly, kubectl-repl used to insert those options directly after kubectl such as kubectl --namespace=default plugin-name. This was however incompatible with kubectl plugins (see https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/extend-kubectl/kubectl-plugins/).
  • Now the options are placed after the command names, but before other options. Continuing with the previous example, now the final command would be kubectl plugin-name --namespace=default.
• Fixes #10 Objects with hyphens seem to break

A practical example of a kubectl plugin is an executable named kubectl-old somewhere in your $PATH such as this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu
kubectl get "$@" --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp

That allows you to call kubectl old pods (get pods sorted by creation time) in addition to the original kubectl get pods (sorted by name). In kubectl-repl, this of course simplifies to invoking old pods.
Note the the plugin cannot be called kubectl-get-sorted for example, because the builtin commands cannot be overshadowed even when the longest executable filename rule would take place.

Complete changelog since the previous release: 1.4...1.6

This release is also available as a Docker image:
https://hub.docker.com/r/mikulas/kubectl-repl/