Using here documents in a Pinch

Imagine you're working in a Kubernetes environment and need to troubleshoot an issue with a PHP application running in one of your pods. You exec into the pod to investigate, but to your surprise, there are no text editors installed. This is common in container images designed to reduce attack surfaces and resource usage. However, you need to create a PHP file to test some code changes. You can do that with here documents.

July 13, 2024 by Sharjeel Aziz6 minutes