1KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)
2Eric Paris Jan 2015
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9 kubectl version - Print the client and server version information
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14 kubectl version [OPTIONS]
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19 Print the client and server version information for the current context
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24 --client=false If true, shows client version only (no server re‐
25 quired).
26 -o, --output="" One of 'yaml' or 'json'.
29 --short=false If true, print just the version number.
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36 --add-dir-header=false If true, adds the file directory to the
37 header of the log messages
38 --alsologtostderr=false log to standard error as well as files
41 --application-metrics-count-limit=100 Max number of application
44 metrics to store (per container)
45 --as="" Username to impersonate for the operation
48 --as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag
51 can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
52 --azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing
55 Azure container registry configuration information.
56 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" Comma-separated
59 list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
60 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/cache" Default cache directory
63 --certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate
66 authority
67 --client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS
70 --client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS
73 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
76 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health
77 checks
78 --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
81 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health
82 checks
83 --cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
86 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json" location of
89 the container hints file
90 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock" containerd endpoint
93 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io" containerd namespace
96 --context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use
99 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
102 tionSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by
103 default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
104 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
107 tionSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added
108 by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
109 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false Disable collecting root Cgroup
112 stats
113 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" docker endpoint
116 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist="" a comma-separated list of envi‐
119 ronment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be
120 collected for docker containers
121 --docker-only=false Only report docker containers in addition to
124 root stats
125 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker" DEPRECATED: docker root is read
128 from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
129 --docker-tls=false use TLS to connect to docker
132 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem" path to trusted CA
135 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem" path to client certificate
138 --docker-tls-key="key.pem" path to private key
141 --enable-load-reader=false Whether to enable cpu load reader
144 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0" Max length of time for which
147 to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key val‐
148 ues, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default"
149 and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified
150 event types
151 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0" Max number of events to
154 store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where
155 the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the
156 value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event
157 types
158 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s Interval between global house‐
161 keepings
162 --housekeeping-interval=10s Interval between container housekeep‐
165 ings
166 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate
169 will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections
170 insecure
171 --kubeconfig="" Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI re‐
174 quests.
175 --log-backtrace-at=:0 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack
178 trace
179 --log-cadvisor-usage=false Whether to log the usage of the cAdvi‐
182 sor container
183 --log-dir="" If non-empty, write log files in this directory
186 --log-file="" If non-empty, use this log file
189 --log-file-max-size=1800 Defines the maximum size a log file can
192 grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is
193 unlimited.
194 --log-flush-frequency=5s Maximum number of seconds between log
197 flushes
198 --logtostderr=true log to standard error instead of files
201 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
204 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
205 first one that exists.
206 --match-server-version=false Require server version to match
209 client version
210 -n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI
213 request
214 --one-output=false If true, only write logs to their native sever‐
217 ity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level
218 --password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server
221 --profile="none" Name of profile to capture. One of
224 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
225 --profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the
228 profile to
229 --referenced-reset-interval=0 Reset interval for referenced bytes
232 (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after
233 which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are
234 never cleared (default: 0)
235 --request-timeout="0" The length of time to wait before giving up
238 on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corre‐
239 sponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't time‐
240 out requests.
241 -s, --server="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
244 --skip-headers=false If true, avoid header prefixes in the log
247 messages
248 --skip-log-headers=false If true, avoid headers when opening log
251 files
252 --stderrthreshold=2 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
255 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s Writes in the storage driver
258 will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory
259 backends as a single transaction
260 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor" database name
263 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086" database host:port
266 --storage-driver-password="root" database password
269 --storage-driver-secure=false use secure connection with database
272 --storage-driver-table="stats" table name
275 --storage-driver-user="root" database username
278 --tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate
281 validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the
282 server is used
283 --token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server
286 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s Interval between machine info
289 updates.
290 --user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use
293 --username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server
296 -v, --v=0 number for the log level verbosity
299 --version=false Print version information and quit
302 --vmodule= comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for
305 file-filtered logging
306 --warnings-as-errors=false Treat warnings received from the server
309 as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code
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314 # Print the client and server versions for the current context
315 kubectl version
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321 kubectl(1),
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326 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
327 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
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