Get a specific apiVersion manifest from k8s

TL;DR

To get a manifest from k8s in any supported API version you can use an extended kubectl get notation like kubectl get deployments.v1beta1.extensions mydeploy -o yaml

Briefly and with examples

Everybody knows how to get a resource manifest from Kubernetes. But do you know that you can put a manifest with one apiVersion set and get the same resource manifest with another apiVersion back?

Imagine

1. You have a deployment in a cluster, that uses api-version extensions/v1beta1 from a git …

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