kubectx And kubens, A Context Switched For Real
kubectx and kubens on EL 10 from the GitHub release; get_url refuses it unless its SHA-256 is in the vendor's checksums file, and the live test re-checks it, then writes a two-context kubeconfig, has kubectx switch it offline and read it back, and kubens read the namespace. Both tools from one release, both checked. Pinned. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
Documentation
kubectx
ahmetb kubectx on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no kubectx, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from github.com/ahmetb/kubectx, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
Pinned. kubectx_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs kubectx probe and expects
"Switched to context "probe"." - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
A context switched, for real. The live test writes a kubeconfig
with two contexts, has kubectx probe switch to the other one (offline:
it edits the file) and reads it back with kubectx -c; kubens -c reads
the namespace of the same context. Switching a namespace with kubens
asks the API server whether it exists, so that half stays a read. Both
tools come from one release with one checksum file; this role installs
both and checks both against it.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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