1KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)
2Eric Paris Jan 2015
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9 kubectl config view - Display merged kubeconfig settings or a specified
10 kubeconfig file
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15 kubectl config view [OPTIONS]
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20 Display merged kubeconfig settings or a specified kubeconfig file.
21 You can use --output jsonpath={...} to extract specific values using a
24 jsonpath expression.
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29 --allow-missing-template-keys=true If true, ignore any errors in
30 templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only ap‐
31 plies to golang and jsonpath output formats.
32 --flatten=false Flatten the resulting kubeconfig file into
35 self-contained output (useful for creating portable kubeconfig files)
36 --merge=true Merge the full hierarchy of kubeconfig files
39 --minify=false Remove all information not used by current-context
42 from the output
43 -o, --output="yaml" Output format. One of: json|yaml|name|go-tem‐
46 plate|go-template-file|template|templatefile|jsonpath|json‐
47 path-as-json|jsonpath-file.
48 --raw=false Display raw byte data
51 --template="" Template string or path to template file to use when
54 -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang tem‐
55 plates [http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview].
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60 --add-dir-header=false If true, adds the file directory to the
61 header of the log messages
62 --alsologtostderr=false log to standard error as well as files
65 --application-metrics-count-limit=100 Max number of application
68 metrics to store (per container)
69 --as="" Username to impersonate for the operation
72 --as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag
75 can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
76 --azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing
79 Azure container registry configuration information.
80 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" Comma-separated
83 list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
84 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/cache" Default cache directory
87 --certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate
90 authority
91 --client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS
94 --client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS
97 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
100 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health
101 checks
102 --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
105 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health
106 checks
107 --cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
110 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json" location of
113 the container hints file
114 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock" containerd endpoint
117 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io" containerd namespace
120 --context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use
123 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
126 tionSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by
127 default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
128 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
131 tionSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added
132 by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
133 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false Disable collecting root Cgroup
136 stats
137 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" docker endpoint
140 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist="" a comma-separated list of envi‐
143 ronment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be
144 collected for docker containers
145 --docker-only=false Only report docker containers in addition to
148 root stats
149 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker" DEPRECATED: docker root is read
152 from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
153 --docker-tls=false use TLS to connect to docker
156 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem" path to trusted CA
159 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem" path to client certificate
162 --docker-tls-key="key.pem" path to private key
165 --enable-load-reader=false Whether to enable cpu load reader
168 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0" Max length of time for which
171 to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key val‐
172 ues, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default"
173 and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified
174 event types
175 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0" Max number of events to
178 store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where
179 the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the
180 value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event
181 types
182 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s Interval between global house‐
185 keepings
186 --housekeeping-interval=10s Interval between container housekeep‐
189 ings
190 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate
193 will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections
194 insecure
195 --kubeconfig="" use a particular kubeconfig file
198 --log-backtrace-at=:0 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack
201 trace
202 --log-cadvisor-usage=false Whether to log the usage of the cAdvi‐
205 sor container
206 --log-dir="" If non-empty, write log files in this directory
209 --log-file="" If non-empty, use this log file
212 --log-file-max-size=1800 Defines the maximum size a log file can
215 grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is
216 unlimited.
217 --log-flush-frequency=5s Maximum number of seconds between log
220 flushes
221 --logtostderr=true log to standard error instead of files
224 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
227 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
228 first one that exists.
229 --match-server-version=false Require server version to match
232 client version
233 -n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI
236 request
237 --one-output=false If true, only write logs to their native sever‐
240 ity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level
241 --password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server
244 --profile="none" Name of profile to capture. One of
247 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
248 --profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the
251 profile to
252 --referenced-reset-interval=0 Reset interval for referenced bytes
255 (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after
256 which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are
257 never cleared (default: 0)
258 --request-timeout="0" The length of time to wait before giving up
261 on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corre‐
262 sponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't time‐
263 out requests.
264 -s, --server="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
267 --skip-headers=false If true, avoid header prefixes in the log
270 messages
271 --skip-log-headers=false If true, avoid headers when opening log
274 files
275 --stderrthreshold=2 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
278 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s Writes in the storage driver
281 will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory
282 backends as a single transaction
283 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor" database name
286 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086" database host:port
289 --storage-driver-password="root" database password
292 --storage-driver-secure=false use secure connection with database
295 --storage-driver-table="stats" table name
298 --storage-driver-user="root" database username
301 --tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate
304 validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the
305 server is used
306 --token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server
309 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s Interval between machine info
312 updates.
313 --user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use
316 --username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server
319 -v, --v=0 number for the log level verbosity
322 --version=false Print version information and quit
325 --vmodule= comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for
328 file-filtered logging
329 --warnings-as-errors=false Treat warnings received from the server
332 as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code
333
337 # Show merged kubeconfig settings.
338 kubectl config view
339 # Show merged kubeconfig settings and raw certificate data.
341 kubectl config view --raw
342 # Get the password for the e2e user
344 kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.users[?(@.name == "e2e")].user.password}'
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350 kubectl-config(1),
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355 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
356 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
357 been automatically generated since!
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