How to copy files from kubernetes Pods to local system

Question

I\'m trying to copy files from Kubernetes Pods to my local system. I am getting the below error while running following command:

kubectl cp aks-ssh2-6cd4948         


        

Answer 1

On my side the issue was with having multiple containers inside the pod:

kubectl cp -c grafana \
    metrics/grafana-5c4f76b49b-p88lc:/etc/grafana \
    ./grafana/etc

so set the container name with -c grafana and properly prefix the namespace of the pod in my case metrics/