Rename kubectx about kubectx

[ahmetb]

@jwhitcraft I am using ZSH and when I alias, completion just works fine. But I see that once I alias in bash, it doesn't do completion. I see many people use Bash so I take this must be a real pain point.

[ahmetb]

Hi folks, sorry for auto-closing the issue with the commit. I merged a solution: You can now brew install kubectx --with-short-names and it will install kubectx as kctx (and kubens, which I just added, as kns). With this option, we don’t have to rename the project. The bash/zsh completions should be working fine with shorthand names, too. Let me know if you run into any issues.

[ahmetb]

Any suggestions?

I personally aliased kubectl to k, so I don't see this problem.

[ahmetb]

Purely from the marketing aspect, I actually tend to keep it as kubectx. In fact, I'm planning to add a new accompanying command called kubens (#1) .

I wish brew link had a way of aliasing the command easily so that you all could personalize. I will keep this discussion open to gather more feedback. Perhaps we can switch to kctx/kns someday.

[rfay]

Agreed, absolutely the only thing I don't like about this lovely tool :)

How about kctx ? kcontext?

[pieterlange]

kctx would be better from a autocompletion perspective. i'd choose kontext from a marketing perspective. but thats up to the author (caveat: marketing isn't my expertise)

[jwhitcraft]

@ahmetb

kinda of off topic, since you aliased k to kubectl do you have bash completion working, I can't figure out how to make the completion work for the alias of k.

i have this, but it doesn't work

alias k='kubectl'
source <(kubectl completion bash)
complete -o default -F __start_kubectl k

[jwhitcraft]

@ahmetb thanks for the info, i'll file an issue upstream.

[rfay]

Thanks for this! I did uninstall and then brew install kubectx --with-short-names and now:

$ kctx
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
/usr/local/bin/kctx: line 28: ./../include/utils.bash: No such file or directory

This is MacOS Sierra, readlink is the standard one installed in /usr/bin

$ brew info kubectx
ahmetb/kubectx/kubectx: stable 0.3.0, HEAD
Tool that can switch between kubectl contexts easily and create aliases
https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx
/usr/local/Cellar/kubectx/0.3.0 (11 files, 24KB) *
  Built from source on 2017-05-17 at 07:18:48 with: --with-short-names
From: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx/blob/master/Formula/kubectx.rb

[ahmetb]

@rfay ah yeah this is gnu vs bsd readlink difference. Subscribe to #8.

[ye]

@ahmetb sorry to inject into this old thread here, but did we get rid off the --with-short-names Homebrew option and the aliases? If so can you provide some explanation? I am actually getting used to use kctx and kns and changing that muscle memory is really hard...I mean I can alias those myself but I am curious to know what else is in --with-short-names .

https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx/compare/v0.6.2...v0.6.3?expand=1

Update: never mind found it on #112 that