Using kubectl exec to run an interactive shell on an existing pod

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It's quite common to at least have a shell installed on the containers since it's footprint on the kB range. Let's check how to get an interactive shell on a running Pod. In case the pod we want to connect to is just using one container like in this example:

$ kubectl get pods 
NAME                                     READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
pet2cattle-s3sync-5f9b9486cf-nznph       1/1     Running     0          2m20s

18/02/2021