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6 kubectl diff - Diff live version against would-be applied version
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11 kubectl diff [OPTIONS]
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16 Diff configurations specified by filename or stdin between the current
17 online configuration, and the configuration as it would be if applied.
18 Output is always YAML.
21 KUBECTL_EXTERNAL_DIFF environment variable can be used to select your
24 own diff command. By default, the "diff" command available in your path
25 will be run with "-u" (unified diff) and "-N" (treat absent files as
26 empty) options.
27 Exit status: 0 No differences were found. 1 Differences were found. >1
30 Kubectl or diff failed with an error.
31 Note: KUBECTL_EXTERNAL_DIFF, if used, is expected to follow that
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39 --field-manager="kubectl"
40 Name of the manager used to track field ownership.
41 -f, --filename=[]
44 Filename, directory, or URL to files contains the configuration to
45 diff
46 --force-conflicts=false
49 If true, server-side apply will force the changes against
50 conflicts.
51 -k, --kustomize=""
54 Process the kustomization directory. This flag can't be used
55 together with -f or -R.
56 -R, --recursive=false
59 Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful
60 when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same
61 directory.
62 --server-side=false
65 If true, apply runs in the server instead of the client.
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70 --add-dir-header=false
71 If true, adds the file directory to the header
72 --alsologtostderr=false
75 log to standard error as well as files
76 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
79 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
80 --as=""
83 Username to impersonate for the operation
84 --as-group=[]
87 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
88 to specify multiple groups.
89 --azure-container-registry-config=""
92 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
93 information.
94 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
97 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
98 one that exists.
99 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
102 Default HTTP cache directory
103 --certificate-authority=""
106 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
107 --client-certificate=""
110 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
111 --client-key=""
114 Path to a client key file for TLS
115 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
118 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health checks
119 --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
122 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health checks
123 --cluster=""
126 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
127 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
130 location of the container hints file
131 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock"
134 containerd endpoint
135 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io"
138 containerd namespace
139 --context=""
142 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
143 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
146 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
147 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
148 already have such a toleration.
149 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
152 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
153 unreachable:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does
154 not already have such a toleration.
155 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false
158 Disable collecting root Cgroup stats
159 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
162 docker endpoint
163 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
166 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
167 be collected for docker containers
168 --docker-only=false
171 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
172 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
175 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a
176 fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
177 --docker-tls=false
180 use TLS to connect to docker
181 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
184 path to trusted CA
185 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
188 path to client certificate
189 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
192 path to private key
193 --enable-load-reader=false
196 Whether to enable cpu load reader
197 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
200 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
201 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
202 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
203 is applied to all non-specified event types
204 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
207 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma
208 separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.:
209 creation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
210 applied to all non-specified event types
211 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
214 Interval between global housekeepings
215 --housekeeping-interval=10s
218 Interval between container housekeepings
219 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
222 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
223 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
224 --kubeconfig=""
227 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
228 --log-backtrace-at=:0
231 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
232 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
235 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
236 --log-dir=""
239 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
240 --log-file=""
243 If non-empty, use this log file
244 --log-file-max-size=1800
247 Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes.
248 If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited.
249 --log-flush-frequency=5s
252 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
253 --logtostderr=true
256 log to standard error instead of files
257 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
260 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
261 first one that exists.
262 --match-server-version=false
265 Require server version to match client version
266 -n, --namespace=""
269 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
270 --password=""
273 Password for basic authentication to the API server
274 --profile="none"
277 Name of profile to capture. One of
278 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
279 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
282 Name of the file to write the profile to
283 --request-timeout="0"
286 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
287 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
288 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
289 -s, --server=""
292 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
293 --skip-headers=false
296 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
297 --skip-log-headers=false
300 If true, avoid headers when opening log files
301 --stderrthreshold=2
304 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
305 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
308 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
309 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
310 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
313 database name
314 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
317 database host:port
318 --storage-driver-password="root"
321 database password
322 --storage-driver-secure=false
325 use secure connection with database
326 --storage-driver-table="stats"
329 table name
330 --storage-driver-user="root"
333 database username
334 --tls-server-name=""
337 Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not
338 provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
339 --token=""
342 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
343 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s
346 Interval between machine info updates.
347 --user=""
350 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
351 --username=""
354 Username for basic authentication to the API server
355 -v, --v=0
358 number for the log level verbosity
359 --version=false
362 Print version information and quit
363 --vmodule=
366 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered
367 logging
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372 # Diff resources included in pod.json.
373 kubectl diff -f pod.json
374 # Diff file read from stdin
376 cat service.yaml | kubectl diff -f -
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387 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
388 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
389 been automatically generated since!
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