1KUBERNETES(1)                      Jan 2015                      KUBERNETES(1)
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NAME

6       kubectl create service externalname - Create an ExternalName service.
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SYNOPSIS

11       kubectl create service externalname [OPTIONS]
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DESCRIPTION

16       Create an ExternalName service with the specified name.
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19       ExternalName  service  references to an external DNS address instead of
20       only pods, which will allow application authors to  reference  services
21       that exist off platform, on other clusters, or locally.
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OPTIONS

26       --allow-missing-template-keys=true
27           If  true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is
28       missing in the template. Only applies to  golang  and  jsonpath  output
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33           If  true, only print the object that would be sent, without sending
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37       --external-name=""
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41       --generator="service-externalname/v1"
42           The name of the API generator to use.
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45       -o, --output=""
46           Output format. One of: json|yaml|name|templatefile|template|go-tem‐
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50       --save-config=false
51           If  true,  the configuration of current object will be saved in its
52       annotation. Otherwise, the annotation will be unchanged. This  flag  is
53       useful  when  you  want  to perform kubectl apply on this object in the
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57       --tcp=[]
58           Port pairs can be specified as '<port>:<targetPort>'.
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62           Template string or path to template file  to  use  when  -o=go-tem‐
63       plate,  -o=go-template-file.  The template format is golang templates [
64http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview⟩].
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68           If true, use a schema to validate the input before sending it
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OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

73       --allow-verification-with-non-compliant-keys=false
74           Allow  a  SignatureVerifier  to  use  keys  which  are  technically
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91           Group  to  impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
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96           Path to the file containing Azure container registry  configuration
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101           Comma-separated  list  of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
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121       --cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,209.85.152.0/22,209.85.204.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
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126           The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
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142           Indicates    the    tolerationSeconds   of   the   toleration   for
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148           Indicates  the  tolerationSeconds  of  the  toleration for unreach‐
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158           a  comma-separated  list of environment variable keys that needs to
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167           DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is  a  fall‐
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192           Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
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199           Max number of events to store (per type). Value is  a  comma  sepa‐
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201       ation, oom) or "default" and  the  value  is  an  integer.  Default  is
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219           If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
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248           Comma-separated  list  of  files  to  check for machine-id. Use the
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269           The length of time to wait before giving  up  on  a  single  server
270       request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
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283           Writes in the storage driver will be buffered  for  this  duration,
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EXAMPLE

334                # Create a new ExternalName service named my-ns
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SEE ALSO

341       kubectl-create-service(1),
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HISTORY

346       January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at  redhat  dot
347       com)  based  on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
348       been automatically generated since!
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