jsonpath Reference

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:02:07 -0400

jsonpath — the mental model Link to heading

The dot notation is just the YAML structure of the resource, flattened.

Whatever you see in k get <resource> -o yaml — that’s the map. Every key is a dot. Every list item is [0] or [*].

Step 1 — run this:

k get <resource> <name> -o yaml

Step 2 — read the YAML, trace the path to what you want