You can’t, no. One approach is a “debug sidecar” container in the Pod that has your desired tools. Linkerd, for example, will add such a container if an annotat

You can’t, no. One approach is a “debug sidecar” container in the Pod that has your desired tools. Linkerd, for example, will add such a container if an annotation is present on the Pod: https://linkerd.io/2.11/tasks/using-the-debug-container/ https://linkerd.io/2.11/tasks/using-the-debug-container/ I usually just include a shell, but to each their own.