How to find a pod by UID?

find-pod-by-uid.md

How to find a pod by UID?

Option #1

kubectl get pods -A -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select(.metadata.uid == "<UID>") | .metadata.name, .metadata.namespace'

Option #2

kubectl get pods -A -o custom-columns=NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace,NAME:.metadata.name,UID:.metadata.uid | grep <UID>

Option #3

If you're using Docker, run this on each node

docker ps -a --format '{{.Names}}' | grep <UID>