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6 kubectl config set-context - Sets a context entry in kubeconfig
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11 kubectl config set-context [OPTIONS]
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16 Sets a context entry in kubeconfig
17 Specifying a name that already exists will merge new fields on top of
20 existing values for those fields.
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25 --current=false
26 Modify the current context
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31 --alsologtostderr=false
32 log to standard error as well as files
33 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
36 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
37 --as=""
40 Username to impersonate for the operation
41 --as-group=[]
44 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
45 to specify multiple groups.
46 --azure-container-registry-config=""
49 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
50 information.
51 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
54 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
55 one that exists.
56 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
59 Default HTTP cache directory
60 --certificate-authority=""
63 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
64 --client-certificate=""
67 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
68 --client-key=""
71 Path to a client key file for TLS
72 --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
75 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
76 --cluster=""
79 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
80 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
83 location of the container hints file
84 --containerd="unix:///var/run/containerd.sock"
87 containerd endpoint
88 --context=""
91 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
92 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
95 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
96 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
97 already have such a toleration.
98 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
101 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
102 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
103 already have such a toleration.
104 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
107 docker endpoint
108 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
111 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
112 be collected for docker containers
113 --docker-only=false
116 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
117 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
120 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
121 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
122 --docker-tls=false
125 use TLS to connect to docker
126 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
129 path to trusted CA
130 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
133 path to client certificate
134 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
137 path to private key
138 --enable-load-reader=false
141 Whether to enable cpu load reader
142 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
145 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
146 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
147 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
148 is applied to all non-specified event types
149 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
152 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
153 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
154 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
155 applied to all non-specified event types
156 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
159 Interval between global housekeepings
160 --housekeeping-interval=10s
163 Interval between container housekeepings
164 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
167 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
168 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
169 --kubeconfig=""
172 use a particular kubeconfig file
173 --log-backtrace-at=:0
176 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
177 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
180 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
181 --log-dir=""
184 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
185 --log-file=""
188 If non-empty, use this log file
189 --log-flush-frequency=5s
192 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
193 --logtostderr=true
196 log to standard error instead of files
197 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
200 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
201 first one that exists.
202 --match-server-version=false
205 Require server version to match client version
206 --mesos-agent="127.0.0.1:5051"
209 Mesos agent address
210 --mesos-agent-timeout=10s
213 Mesos agent timeout
214 -n, --namespace=""
217 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
218 --password=""
221 Password for basic authentication to the API server
222 --profile="none"
225 Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|thread‐
226 create|block|mutex)
227 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
230 Name of the file to write the profile to
231 --request-timeout="0"
234 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
235 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
236 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
237 -s, --server=""
240 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
241 --skip-headers=false
244 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
245 --stderrthreshold=2
248 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
249 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
252 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
253 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
254 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
257 database name
258 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
261 database host:port
262 --storage-driver-password="root"
265 database password
266 --storage-driver-secure=false
269 use secure connection with database
270 --storage-driver-table="stats"
273 table name
274 --storage-driver-user="root"
277 database username
278 --token=""
281 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
282 --user=""
285 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
286 --username=""
289 Username for basic authentication to the API server
290 -v, --v=0
293 log level for V logs
294 --version=false
297 Print version information and quit
298 --vmodule=
301 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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307 # Set the user field on the gce context entry without touching other values
308 kubectl config set-context gce --user=cluster-admin
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314 kubectl-config(1),
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319 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
320 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
321 been automatically generated since!
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