1KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)
2Eric Paris Jan 2015
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9 kubectl alpha - Commands for features in alpha
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14 kubectl alpha [OPTIONS]
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19 These commands correspond to alpha features that are not enabled in Ku‐
20 bernetes clusters by default.
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25 --add-dir-header=false If true, adds the file directory to the
26 header of the log messages
27 --alsologtostderr=false log to standard error as well as files
30 --application-metrics-count-limit=100 Max number of application
33 metrics to store (per container)
34 --as="" Username to impersonate for the operation
37 --as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag
40 can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
41 --azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing
44 Azure container registry configuration information.
45 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" Comma-separated
48 list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
49 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/cache" Default cache directory
52 --certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate
55 authority
56 --client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS
59 --client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS
62 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
65 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health
66 checks
67 --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
70 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health
71 checks
72 --cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
75 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json" location of
78 the container hints file
79 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock" containerd endpoint
82 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io" containerd namespace
85 --context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use
88 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
91 tionSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by
92 default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
93 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
96 tionSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added
97 by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
98 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false Disable collecting root Cgroup
101 stats
102 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" docker endpoint
105 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist="" a comma-separated list of envi‐
108 ronment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be
109 collected for docker containers
110 --docker-only=false Only report docker containers in addition to
113 root stats
114 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker" DEPRECATED: docker root is read
117 from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
118 --docker-tls=false use TLS to connect to docker
121 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem" path to trusted CA
124 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem" path to client certificate
127 --docker-tls-key="key.pem" path to private key
130 --enable-load-reader=false Whether to enable cpu load reader
133 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0" Max length of time for which
136 to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key val‐
137 ues, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default"
138 and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified
139 event types
140 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0" Max number of events to
143 store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where
144 the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the
145 value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event
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147 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s Interval between global house‐
150 keepings
151 --housekeeping-interval=10s Interval between container housekeep‐
154 ings
155 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate
158 will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections
159 insecure
160 --kubeconfig="" Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI re‐
163 quests.
164 --log-backtrace-at=:0 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack
167 trace
168 --log-cadvisor-usage=false Whether to log the usage of the cAdvi‐
171 sor container
172 --log-dir="" If non-empty, write log files in this directory
175 --log-file="" If non-empty, use this log file
178 --log-file-max-size=1800 Defines the maximum size a log file can
181 grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is
182 unlimited.
183 --log-flush-frequency=5s Maximum number of seconds between log
186 flushes
187 --logtostderr=true log to standard error instead of files
190 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
193 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
194 first one that exists.
195 --match-server-version=false Require server version to match
198 client version
199 -n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI
202 request
203 --one-output=false If true, only write logs to their native sever‐
206 ity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level)
207 --password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server
210 --profile="none" Name of profile to capture. One of
213 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
214 --profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the
217 profile to
218 --referenced-reset-interval=0 Reset interval for referenced bytes
221 (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after
222 which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are
223 never cleared (default: 0)
224 --request-timeout="0" The length of time to wait before giving up
227 on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corre‐
228 sponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't time‐
229 out requests.
230 -s, --server="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
233 --skip-headers=false If true, avoid header prefixes in the log
236 messages
237 --skip-log-headers=false If true, avoid headers when opening log
240 files
241 --stderrthreshold=2 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
244 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s Writes in the storage driver
247 will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory
248 backends as a single transaction
249 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor" database name
252 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086" database host:port
255 --storage-driver-password="root" database password
258 --storage-driver-secure=false use secure connection with database
261 --storage-driver-table="stats" table name
264 --storage-driver-user="root" database username
267 --tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate
270 validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the
271 server is used
272 --token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server
275 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s Interval between machine info
278 updates.
279 --user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use
282 --username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server
285 -v, --v=0 number for the log level verbosity
288 --version=false Print version information and quit
291 --vmodule= comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for
294 file-filtered logging
295 --warnings-as-errors=false Treat warnings received from the server
298 as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code
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303 kubectl(1),
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308 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
309 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
310 been automatically generated since!
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