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Set Visual Studio Code as default editor for kubectl

Set KUBE_EDITOR to Visual Studio Code, assumes 'code' is in PATH

export KUBE_EDITOR='code --wait'

Running k edit ... will open up the yaml using Visual Studio Code.

@mousavian
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mousavian commented Jun 14, 2019

EDITOR='open -a "Visual Studio Code" --wait' kubectl

^ inline temporary editor change for mac users

@MajorBreakfast
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@mousavian kubeclt?

@bodinsamuel
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thanks 🙏

@elgammalqa
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Thanks

@officialdarnyc
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Thanks

@ashconnell
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Legend!

@MissakaI-ObjectOne
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For PowerShell use
$env:KUBE_EDITOR="code --wait"

@willyg123
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willyg123 commented Jun 23, 2022

To make this permanent, edit ~/.bash-profile with code ~/.bash-profile and enter this into it:

export KUBE_EDITOR='code --wait'

@azerafati
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indeed opens up vscode just fine, but ‌I‌ can't make a change and save it. it says Edit cancelled, no changes made. tried it with --wait flag

@allidoiswin10
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Awesome!

@AL1L
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AL1L commented Jan 25, 2024

Thank

@vegetablest
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On macOS, has anyone encountered the problem that closing the editing page will not save the changes, and need to exit the vscode process to save the changes.

@parveenksharma
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On my mac Ventura in my ~/.bash_profile I have :
export KUBE_EDITOR='open -a "Visual Studio Code" --wait'

and it is opening the new VSCode window with command on terminal:
kubectl edit pod fooapp

The problem is once I am done editing the yml and save it and close the associated VSCode window the control is not returning to terminal.
For that I have to Quit VSCode completely.

This is very inconvenient as this is resulting in closing all my other open / work in progress files with VSCode .

Please suggest.

@ivaylokardashev
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$env:KUBE_EDITOR="code --wait"

Thanx you

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