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6 kubectl taint - Update the taints on one or more nodes
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11 kubectl taint [OPTIONS]
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16 Update the taints on one or more nodes.
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19 item A taint consists of a key, value, and effect. As an argu‐
21 ment here, it is expressed as key=value:effect.
22 item The key must begin with a letter or number, and may contain
23 letters, numbers, hyphens, dots, and underscores, up to 253
24 characters.
25 item Optionally, the key can begin with a DNS subdomain prefix
26 and a single '/', like example.com/my-app
27 item The value must begin with a letter or number, and may con‐
28 tain letters, numbers, hyphens, dots, and underscores, up to 63
29 characters.
30 item The effect must be NoSchedule, PreferNoSchedule or NoExe‐
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32 item Currently taint can only apply to node.
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36 --all=false
37 Select all nodes in the cluster
38 --allow-missing-template-keys=true
41 If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is
42 missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output
43 formats.
44 -o, --output=""
47 Output format. One of: json|yaml|name|go-template|go-tem‐
48 plate-file|template|templatefile|jsonpath|jsonpath-file.
49 --overwrite=false
52 If true, allow taints to be overwritten, otherwise reject taint
53 updates that overwrite existing taints.
54 -l, --selector=""
57 Selector (label query) to filter on, supports '=', '==', and
58 '!='.(e.g. -l key1=value1,key2=value2)
59 --template=""
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 [
64 ⟨http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview⟩].
65 --validate=true
68 If true, use a schema to validate the input before sending it
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73 --alsologtostderr=false
74 log to standard error as well as files
75 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
78 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
79 --as=""
82 Username to impersonate for the operation
83 --as-group=[]
86 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
87 to specify multiple groups.
88 --azure-container-registry-config=""
91 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
92 information.
93 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
96 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
97 one that exists.
98 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
101 Default HTTP cache directory
102 --certificate-authority=""
105 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
106 --client-certificate=""
109 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
110 --client-key=""
113 Path to a client key file for TLS
114 --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
117 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
118 --cluster=""
121 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
122 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
125 location of the container hints file
126 --containerd="unix:///var/run/containerd.sock"
129 containerd endpoint
130 --context=""
133 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
134 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
137 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
138 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
139 already have such a toleration.
140 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
143 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
144 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
145 already have such a toleration.
146 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
149 docker endpoint
150 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
153 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
154 be collected for docker containers
155 --docker-only=false
158 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
159 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
162 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
163 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
164 --docker-tls=false
167 use TLS to connect to docker
168 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
171 path to trusted CA
172 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
175 path to client certificate
176 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
179 path to private key
180 --enable-load-reader=false
183 Whether to enable cpu load reader
184 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
187 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
188 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
189 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
190 is applied to all non-specified event types
191 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
194 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
195 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
196 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
197 applied to all non-specified event types
198 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
201 Interval between global housekeepings
202 --housekeeping-interval=10s
205 Interval between container housekeepings
206 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
209 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
210 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
211 --kubeconfig=""
214 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
215 --log-backtrace-at=:0
218 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
219 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
222 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
223 --log-dir=""
226 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
227 --log-file=""
230 If non-empty, use this log file
231 --log-flush-frequency=5s
234 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
235 --logtostderr=true
238 log to standard error instead of files
239 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
242 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
243 first one that exists.
244 --match-server-version=false
247 Require server version to match client version
248 --mesos-agent="127.0.0.1:5051"
251 Mesos agent address
252 --mesos-agent-timeout=10s
255 Mesos agent timeout
256 -n, --namespace=""
259 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
260 --password=""
263 Password for basic authentication to the API server
264 --profile="none"
267 Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|thread‐
268 create|block|mutex)
269 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
272 Name of the file to write the profile to
273 --request-timeout="0"
276 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
277 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
278 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
279 -s, --server=""
282 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
283 --skip-headers=false
286 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
287 --stderrthreshold=2
290 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
291 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
294 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
295 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
296 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
299 database name
300 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
303 database host:port
304 --storage-driver-password="root"
307 database password
308 --storage-driver-secure=false
311 use secure connection with database
312 --storage-driver-table="stats"
315 table name
316 --storage-driver-user="root"
319 database username
320 --token=""
323 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
324 --user=""
327 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
328 --username=""
331 Username for basic authentication to the API server
332 -v, --v=0
335 log level for V logs
336 --version=false
339 Print version information and quit
340 --vmodule=
343 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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349 # Update node 'foo' with a taint with key 'dedicated' and value 'special-user' and effect 'NoSchedule'.
350 # If a taint with that key and effect already exists, its value is replaced as specified.
351 kubectl taint nodes foo dedicated=special-user:NoSchedule
352 # Remove from node 'foo' the taint with key 'dedicated' and effect 'NoSchedule' if one exists.
354 kubectl taint nodes foo dedicated:NoSchedule-
355 # Remove from node 'foo' all the taints with key 'dedicated'
357 kubectl taint nodes foo dedicated-
358 # Add a taint with key 'dedicated' on nodes having label mylabel=X
360 kubectl taint node -l myLabel=X dedicated=foo:PreferNoSchedule
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371 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
372 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
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