A reminder - querying Kubernetes nodes by their labels

I have a requirement to inspect a particular label of the nine nodes that comprise my Kubernetes ( actually Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform ) cluster.

The label in question is ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id as the OCP cluster is hosted on IBM Cloud.

Here's up with what I ended: -

kubectl get nodes --output wide --label-columns ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id | grep -v NAME | awk '{print $12}'

and here's the JSON / jq variant: -

kubectl get nodes --output JSON --label-columns ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id | jq '.items[].metadata.labels.ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id'

which borks with: -

jq: error: cloud/0 is not defined at <top-level>, line 1:

.items[].metadata.labels.ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id                             

jq: error: worker/0 is not defined at <top-level>, line 1:

.items[].metadata.labels.ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id                                                 

jq: error: id/0 is not defined at <top-level>, line 1:

.items[].metadata.labels.ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id                                                        

jq: 3 compile errors

Ewww, hang on

This helps: -

How does jq work with keys containing slash?

TL;DR: the answer is: -

If the key contains special characters or starts with a digit, you need to surround it with double quotes like this: ."foo$", or else .["foo$"]

So, here's an amended version: -

kubectl get nodes --output JSON --label-columns ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id | jq '.items[].metadata.labels."ibm-cloud.kubernetes.io/worker-id"'

which does the trick.

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