29 May 2026

Kubectl get info about resource with templates and yaml

I wanted the metadata.annotation pod-requests, viewable in node config -> YAML on the Rancher webgui.

Came up w/ this:

kubectl get node node-name -o template  --template='{{ index .metadata.annotations "management.cattle.io/pod-requests" }}' 

#  | jq '.["nvidia.com/gpu"]'

It refused to allow me to use - and / inside the name (k get node nodename -o template --template={{.metadata.annotations.management.cattle.io/pod-requests}} didn’t work), solution from Helm templating doesn’t let me use dash in names - Stack Overflow.

Fun version w/ templates and json (there has to be a better way):

k get node nodename -o template  --template='{"requests": {{ index .metadata.annotations "management.cattle.io/pod-requests" }}, "limits": {{ index .metadata.annotations "management.cattle.io/pod-requests" }}, "total": {"nvidia.com/gpu": {{ index .metadata.labels "nvidia.com/gpu.count" }} } }' | jq .

Returns:

{
  "requests": {
    "cpu": "19795m",
    "memory": "7450Mi",
    "nvidia.com/gpu": "1",
    "pods": "37"
  },
  "limits": {
    "cpu": "19795m",
    "memory": "7450Mi",
    "nvidia.com/gpu": "1",
    "pods": "37"
  },
  "total": {
    "nvidia.com/gpu": 1
  }
}

Or even

k get node ki-srv03 -o template  --template='{"requests": {{ index .metadata.annotations "management.cattle.io/pod-requests" }}, "limits": {{ index .metadata.annotations "management.cattle.io/pod-requests" }}, "total": {"nvidia.com/gpu": {{ index .metadata.labels "nvidia.com/gpu.count" }} } }' | jq '. | [.requests["nvidia.com/gpu"], .limits["nvidia.com/gpu"],  .total["nvidia.com/gpu"] | tonumber]' -c

# -> [2,1,4]

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Kubectl get info about resource with templates and yaml