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6 kubectl config use-context - Sets the current-context in a kubeconfig
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12 kubectl config use-context [OPTIONS]
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17 Sets the current-context in a kubeconfig file
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22 --alsologtostderr=false
23 log to standard error as well as files
24 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
27 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
28 --as=""
31 Username to impersonate for the operation
32 --as-group=[]
35 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
36 to specify multiple groups.
37 --azure-container-registry-config=""
40 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
41 information.
42 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
45 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
46 one that exists.
47 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
50 Default HTTP cache directory
51 --certificate-authority=""
54 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
55 --client-certificate=""
58 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
59 --client-key=""
62 Path to a client key file for TLS
63 --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
66 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
67 --cluster=""
70 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
71 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
74 location of the container hints file
75 --containerd="unix:///var/run/containerd.sock"
78 containerd endpoint
79 --context=""
82 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
83 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
86 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
87 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
88 already have such a toleration.
89 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
92 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
93 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
94 already have such a toleration.
95 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
98 docker endpoint
99 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
102 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
103 be collected for docker containers
104 --docker-only=false
107 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
108 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
111 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
112 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
113 --docker-tls=false
116 use TLS to connect to docker
117 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
120 path to trusted CA
121 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
124 path to client certificate
125 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
128 path to private key
129 --enable-load-reader=false
132 Whether to enable cpu load reader
133 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
136 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
137 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
138 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
139 is applied to all non-specified event types
140 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
143 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
144 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
145 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
146 applied to all non-specified event types
147 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
150 Interval between global housekeepings
151 --housekeeping-interval=10s
154 Interval between container housekeepings
155 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
158 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
159 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
160 --kubeconfig=""
163 use a particular kubeconfig file
164 --log-backtrace-at=:0
167 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
168 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
171 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
172 --log-dir=""
175 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
176 --log-file=""
179 If non-empty, use this log file
180 --log-flush-frequency=5s
183 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
184 --logtostderr=true
187 log to standard error instead of files
188 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
191 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
192 first one that exists.
193 --match-server-version=false
196 Require server version to match client version
197 --mesos-agent="127.0.0.1:5051"
200 Mesos agent address
201 --mesos-agent-timeout=10s
204 Mesos agent timeout
205 -n, --namespace=""
208 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
209 --password=""
212 Password for basic authentication to the API server
213 --profile="none"
216 Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|thread‐
217 create|block|mutex)
218 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
221 Name of the file to write the profile to
222 --request-timeout="0"
225 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
226 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
227 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
228 -s, --server=""
231 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
232 --skip-headers=false
235 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
236 --stderrthreshold=2
239 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
240 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
243 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
244 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
245 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
248 database name
249 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
252 database host:port
253 --storage-driver-password="root"
256 database password
257 --storage-driver-secure=false
260 use secure connection with database
261 --storage-driver-table="stats"
264 table name
265 --storage-driver-user="root"
268 database username
269 --token=""
272 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
273 --user=""
276 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
277 --username=""
280 Username for basic authentication to the API server
281 -v, --v=0
284 log level for V logs
285 --version=false
288 Print version information and quit
289 --vmodule=
292 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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298 # Use the context for the minikube cluster
299 kubectl config use-context minikube
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305 kubectl-config(1),
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310 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
311 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
312 been automatically generated since!
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