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6 kubectl diff - Diff live version against would-be applied version
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11 kubectl diff [OPTIONS]
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16 Diff configurations specified by filename or stdin between the current
17 online configuration, and the configuration as it would be if applied.
18 Output is always YAML.
21 KUBECTL EXTERNAL DIFF environment variable can be used to select your
24 own diff command. By default, the "diff" command available in your path
25 will be run with "-u" (unicode) and "-N" (treat new files as empty)
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31 -f, --filename=[]
32 Filename, directory, or URL to files contains the configuration to
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34 -R, --recursive=false
37 Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful
38 when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same
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44 --alsologtostderr=false
45 log to standard error as well as files
46 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
49 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
50 --as=""
53 Username to impersonate for the operation
54 --as-group=[]
57 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
58 to specify multiple groups.
59 --azure-container-registry-config=""
62 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
63 information.
64 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
67 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
68 one that exists.
69 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
72 Default HTTP cache directory
73 --certificate-authority=""
76 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
77 --client-certificate=""
80 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
81 --client-key=""
84 Path to a client key file for TLS
85 --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
88 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
89 --cluster=""
92 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
93 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
96 location of the container hints file
97 --containerd="unix:///var/run/containerd.sock"
100 containerd endpoint
101 --context=""
104 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
105 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
108 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
109 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
110 already have such a toleration.
111 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
114 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
115 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
116 already have such a toleration.
117 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
120 docker endpoint
121 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
124 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
125 be collected for docker containers
126 --docker-only=false
129 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
130 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
133 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
134 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
135 --docker-tls=false
138 use TLS to connect to docker
139 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
142 path to trusted CA
143 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
146 path to client certificate
147 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
150 path to private key
151 --enable-load-reader=false
154 Whether to enable cpu load reader
155 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
158 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
159 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
160 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
161 is applied to all non-specified event types
162 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
165 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
166 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
167 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
168 applied to all non-specified event types
169 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
172 Interval between global housekeepings
173 --housekeeping-interval=10s
176 Interval between container housekeepings
177 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
180 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
181 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
182 --kubeconfig=""
185 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
186 --log-backtrace-at=:0
189 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
190 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
193 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
194 --log-dir=""
197 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
198 --log-file=""
201 If non-empty, use this log file
202 --log-flush-frequency=5s
205 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
206 --logtostderr=true
209 log to standard error instead of files
210 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
213 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
214 first one that exists.
215 --match-server-version=false
218 Require server version to match client version
219 --mesos-agent="127.0.0.1:5051"
222 Mesos agent address
223 --mesos-agent-timeout=10s
226 Mesos agent timeout
227 -n, --namespace=""
230 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
231 --password=""
234 Password for basic authentication to the API server
235 --profile="none"
238 Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|thread‐
239 create|block|mutex)
240 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
243 Name of the file to write the profile to
244 --request-timeout="0"
247 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
248 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
249 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
250 -s, --server=""
253 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
254 --skip-headers=false
257 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
258 --stderrthreshold=2
261 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
262 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
265 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
266 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
267 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
270 database name
271 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
274 database host:port
275 --storage-driver-password="root"
278 database password
279 --storage-driver-secure=false
282 use secure connection with database
283 --storage-driver-table="stats"
286 table name
287 --storage-driver-user="root"
290 database username
291 --token=""
294 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
295 --user=""
298 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
299 --username=""
302 Username for basic authentication to the API server
303 -v, --v=0
306 log level for V logs
307 --version=false
310 Print version information and quit
311 --vmodule=
314 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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320 # Diff resources included in pod.json.
321 kubectl diff -f pod.json
322 # Diff file read from stdin
324 cat service.yaml | kubectl diff -f -
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335 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
336 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
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