How to format the output of kubectl describe to JSON

Question

kubectl get command has this flag -o to format the output.

Is there a similar way to format the output of the kubectl describe

Answer 1

kubectl describe doesn't support -o or equivalent. It's meant to be human-readable rather than script-friendly. You can achieve what you described with kubectl get pods -l -o , for example:

$ kubectl get pods -l app=guestbook,tier=frontend -o name
pod/frontend-a4kjz
pod/frontend-am1ua
pod/frontend-yz2dq