Kubernetes Official Doc https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/ for debugging node with privileged pod 1 2nodeName=$(kubectl get node -o name) kubectl debug $nodeName -it --image=ubuntu --profile=sysadmin https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/kubectl-node-debug/ for debugging node with crictl https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/crictl/