1KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)
2Eric Paris Jan 2015
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9 kubectl create service externalname - Create an ExternalName service.
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14 kubectl create service externalname [OPTIONS]
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19 Create an ExternalName service with the specified name.
20 ExternalName service references to an external DNS address instead of
23 only pods, which will allow application authors to reference services
24 that exist off platform, on other clusters, or locally.
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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 --dry-run="none" Must be "none", "server", or "client". If client
35 strategy, only print the object that would be sent, without sending it.
36 If server strategy, submit server-side request without persisting the
37 resource.
38 --external-name="" External name of service
41 --field-manager="kubectl-create" Name of the manager used to track
44 field ownership.
45 -o, --output="" Output format. One of: json|yaml|name|go-tem‐
48 plate|go-template-file|template|templatefile|jsonpath|json‐
49 path-as-json|jsonpath-file.
50 --save-config=false If true, the configuration of current object
53 will be saved in its annotation. Otherwise, the annotation will be un‐
54 changed. This flag is useful when you want to perform kubectl apply on
55 this object in the future.
56 --tcp=[] Port pairs can be specified as ':'.
59 --template="" Template string or path to template file to use when
62 -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang tem‐
63 plates [http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview].
64 --validate=true If true, use a schema to validate the input before
67 sending it
68
72 --add-dir-header=false If true, adds the file directory to the
73 header of the log messages
74 --alsologtostderr=false log to standard error as well as files
77 --application-metrics-count-limit=100 Max number of application
80 metrics to store (per container)
81 --as="" Username to impersonate for the operation
84 --as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag
87 can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
88 --azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing
91 Azure container registry configuration information.
92 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" Comma-separated
95 list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
96 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/cache" Default cache directory
99 --certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate
102 authority
103 --client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS
106 --client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS
109 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
112 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health
113 checks
114 --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
117 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health
118 checks
119 --cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
122 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json" location of
125 the container hints file
126 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock" containerd endpoint
129 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io" containerd namespace
132 --context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use
135 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
138 tionSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by
139 default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
140 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
143 tionSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added
144 by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
145 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false Disable collecting root Cgroup
148 stats
149 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" docker endpoint
152 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist="" a comma-separated list of envi‐
155 ronment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be
156 collected for docker containers
157 --docker-only=false Only report docker containers in addition to
160 root stats
161 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker" DEPRECATED: docker root is read
164 from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
165 --docker-tls=false use TLS to connect to docker
168 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem" path to trusted CA
171 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem" path to client certificate
174 --docker-tls-key="key.pem" path to private key
177 --enable-load-reader=false Whether to enable cpu load reader
180 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0" Max length of time for which
183 to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key val‐
184 ues, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default"
185 and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified
186 event types
187 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0" Max number of events to
190 store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where
191 the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the
192 value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event
193 types
194 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s Interval between global house‐
197 keepings
198 --housekeeping-interval=10s Interval between container housekeep‐
201 ings
202 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate
205 will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections
206 insecure
207 --kubeconfig="" Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI re‐
210 quests.
211 --log-backtrace-at=:0 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack
214 trace
215 --log-cadvisor-usage=false Whether to log the usage of the cAdvi‐
218 sor container
219 --log-dir="" If non-empty, write log files in this directory
222 --log-file="" If non-empty, use this log file
225 --log-file-max-size=1800 Defines the maximum size a log file can
228 grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is
229 unlimited.
230 --log-flush-frequency=5s Maximum number of seconds between log
233 flushes
234 --logtostderr=true log to standard error instead of files
237 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
240 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
241 first one that exists.
242 --match-server-version=false Require server version to match
245 client version
246 -n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI
249 request
250 --one-output=false If true, only write logs to their native sever‐
253 ity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level
254 --password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server
257 --profile="none" Name of profile to capture. One of
260 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
261 --profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the
264 profile to
265 --referenced-reset-interval=0 Reset interval for referenced bytes
268 (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after
269 which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are
270 never cleared (default: 0)
271 --request-timeout="0" The length of time to wait before giving up
274 on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corre‐
275 sponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't time‐
276 out requests.
277 -s, --server="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
280 --skip-headers=false If true, avoid header prefixes in the log
283 messages
284 --skip-log-headers=false If true, avoid headers when opening log
287 files
288 --stderrthreshold=2 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
291 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s Writes in the storage driver
294 will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory
295 backends as a single transaction
296 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor" database name
299 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086" database host:port
302 --storage-driver-password="root" database password
305 --storage-driver-secure=false use secure connection with database
308 --storage-driver-table="stats" table name
311 --storage-driver-user="root" database username
314 --tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate
317 validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the
318 server is used
319 --token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server
322 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s Interval between machine info
325 updates.
326 --user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use
329 --username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server
332 -v, --v=0 number for the log level verbosity
335 --version=false Print version information and quit
338 --vmodule= comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for
341 file-filtered logging
342 --warnings-as-errors=false Treat warnings received from the server
345 as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code
346
350 # Create a new ExternalName service named my-ns
351 kubectl create service externalname my-ns --external-name bar.com
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357 kubectl-create-service(1),
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362 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
363 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
364 been automatically generated since!
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