You can effectively shell into a pod using exec(I know its not exactly what the question asks, but might be helpful).

An example usage would be kubectl exec -it name-of-your-pod -- /bin/bash. assuming you have bash installed.

Hope that helps.

How to ssh to the node inside the cluster in local

• Kubernetes is aware of nodes on level of secure communication with kubelets on nodes (geting hostname and ip from node), and as such, does not provide cluster-level ssh to nodes out of the box. Depending on your actual provide/setup there are different ways of connecting to nodes and they all boil down to locate your ssh key, open appropriate ports on firewall/security groups and issue ssh -i key user@node_instance_ip command to access node. If you are running locally with virtual machines you can setup your own ssh keypairs and do the trick..

There is no "ssh" command in kubectl yet, but there are plenty of options to access Kubernetes node shell.

In case you are using cloud provider, you are able to connect to nodes directly from instances management interface.

For example, in GCP: Select Menu -> Compute Engine -> VM instances, then press SSH button on the left side of the desired node instance.

In case of using local VM (VMWare, Virtualbox), you can configure sshd before rolling out Kubernetes cluster, or use VM console, which is available from management GUI.

Vagrant provides its own command to access VMs - vagrant ssh

In case of using minikube, there is minikube ssh command to connect to minikube VM. There are also other options.

I found no simple way to access docker-for-desktop VM, but you can easily switch to minikube for experimenting with node settings.