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6 kubectl version - Print the client and server version information
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11 kubectl version [OPTIONS]
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16 Print the client and server version information for the current context
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21 --client=false
22 Client version only (no server required).
23 -o, --output=""
26 One of 'yaml' or 'json'.
27 --short=false
30 Print just the version number.
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35 --alsologtostderr=false
36 log to standard error as well as files
37 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
40 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
41 --as=""
44 Username to impersonate for the operation
45 --as-group=[]
48 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
49 to specify multiple groups.
50 --azure-container-registry-config=""
53 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
54 information.
55 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
58 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
59 one that exists.
60 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
63 Default HTTP cache directory
64 --certificate-authority=""
67 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
68 --client-certificate=""
71 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
72 --client-key=""
75 Path to a client key file for TLS
76 --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
79 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
80 --cluster=""
83 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
84 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
87 location of the container hints file
88 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock"
91 containerd endpoint
92 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io"
95 containerd namespace
96 --context=""
99 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
100 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
103 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
104 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
105 already have such a toleration.
106 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
109 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
110 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
111 already have such a toleration.
112 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
115 docker endpoint
116 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
119 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
120 be collected for docker containers
121 --docker-only=false
124 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
125 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
128 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
129 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
130 --docker-tls=false
133 use TLS to connect to docker
134 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
137 path to trusted CA
138 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
141 path to client certificate
142 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
145 path to private key
146 --enable-load-reader=false
149 Whether to enable cpu load reader
150 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
153 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
154 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
155 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
156 is applied to all non-specified event types
157 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
160 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
161 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
162 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
163 applied to all non-specified event types
164 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
167 Interval between global housekeepings
168 --housekeeping-interval=10s
171 Interval between container housekeepings
172 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
175 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
176 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
177 --kubeconfig=""
180 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
181 --log-backtrace-at=:0
184 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
185 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
188 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
189 --log-dir=""
192 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
193 --log-file=""
196 If non-empty, use this log file
197 --log-file-max-size=1800
200 Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes.
201 If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited.
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 -n, --namespace=""
222 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
223 --password=""
226 Password for basic authentication to the API server
227 --profile="none"
230 Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|thread‐
231 create|block|mutex)
232 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
235 Name of the file to write the profile to
236 --request-timeout="0"
239 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
240 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
241 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
242 -s, --server=""
245 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
246 --skip-headers=false
249 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
250 --skip-log-headers=false
253 If true, avoid headers when opening log files
254 --stderrthreshold=2
257 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
258 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
261 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
262 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
263 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
266 database name
267 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
270 database host:port
271 --storage-driver-password="root"
274 database password
275 --storage-driver-secure=false
278 use secure connection with database
279 --storage-driver-table="stats"
282 table name
283 --storage-driver-user="root"
286 database username
287 --token=""
290 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
291 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s
294 Interval between machine info updates.
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 number for the log level verbosity
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 # Print the client and server versions for the current context
321 kubectl version
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327 kubectl(1),
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332 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
333 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
334 been automatically generated since!
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