Colored and searchable kubectl logs

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Just looking at kubectl logs can be painful. One way is to colorize it and make it searchable (i.e., you can search for text).

1. Install ccze: https://github.com/cornet/ccze
2. Query your logs (with or without timestamps), pipe the result to ccze to highlight the log and to use ANSI color sequences (i.e., the -A arg), then pipe it to less so you can query to the logs (i.e., /somekey) or navigate to them (i.e., k for up). See example below.

kubectl logs some-pod-name  --timestamps | ccze -A | less