Kubectl short names

csr         certificatesigningrequests
cs  componentstatuses
cm  configmaps
ds  daemonsets
deploy  deployments
ep  endpoints
ev  events
hpa         horizontalpodautoscalers
ing ingresses
limits  limitranges
ns  namespaces
no  nodes
pvc persistentvolumeclaims
pv  persistentvolumes
po  pods
pdb poddisruptionbudgets
psp podsecuritypolicies
rs  replicasets
rc  replicationcontrollers
quota   resourcequotas
sa  serviceaccounts
svc services

kubectl describe
You must specify the type of resource to describe. Valid resource types include:
    * all
    * certificatesigningrequests (aka 'csr')
    * clusters (valid only for federation apiservers)
    * clusterrolebindings
    * clusterroles
    * componentstatuses (aka 'cs')
    * configmaps (aka 'cm')
    * daemonsets (aka 'ds')
    * deployments (aka 'deploy')
    * endpoints (aka 'ep')
    * events (aka 'ev')
    * horizontalpodautoscalers (aka 'hpa')
    * ingresses (aka 'ing')
    * jobs
    * limitranges (aka 'limits')
    * namespaces (aka 'ns')
    * networkpolicies
    * nodes (aka 'no')
    * persistentvolumeclaims (aka 'pvc')
    * persistentvolumes (aka 'pv')
    * pods (aka 'po')
    * poddisruptionbudgets (aka 'pdb')
    * podsecuritypolicies (aka 'psp')
    * podtemplates
    * replicasets (aka 'rs')
    * replicationcontrollers (aka 'rc')
    * resourcequotas (aka 'quota')
    * rolebindings
    * roles
    * secrets
    * serviceaccounts (aka 'sa')
    * services (aka 'svc')
    * statefulsets
    * storageclasses
    * thirdpartyresources