Bash

Add kubecolor alias and config in the ~/.bashrc file:

~/.bashrc

alias kubectl=kubecolor

Completions

In Bash, the above alias setting does not distrupt completions on kubectl, even though it’s remapped to execute kubecolor.

However, if you want completion when explicitly running kubecolor then you need to add the following:

~/.bashrc

# Make "kubecolor" borrow the same completion logic as "kubectl"
complete -o default -F __start_kubectl kubecolor

If you are using an alias like k=kubectl, then you also need to add completion for k:

~/.bashrc

alias k=kubectl
complete -o default -F __start_kubectl k

As a prerequisite, you need kubectl completions installed. This can be achieved by either of these steps:

• If your kubectl installation already came shipped with bash completions (when you did apt install kubectl, dnf install kubectl, etc). Try out kubectl to see if the completions are already installed before you install it twice.

• or you add this to ~/.bashrc:

  ~/.bashrc

  # This needs to be added before "complete -o default -F __start_kubectl ..."
  source <(kubectl completion bash)