1KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)
2Eric Paris Jan 2015
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9 kubectl config set-context - Sets a context entry in kubeconfig
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14 kubectl config set-context [OPTIONS]
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19 Sets a context entry in kubeconfig
20 Specifying a name that already exists will merge new fields on top of
23 existing values for those fields.
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28 --current=false Modify the current context
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33 --add-dir-header=false If true, adds the file directory to the
34 header of the log messages
35 --alsologtostderr=false log to standard error as well as files
38 --application-metrics-count-limit=100 Max number of application
41 metrics to store (per container)
42 --as="" Username to impersonate for the operation
45 --as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag
48 can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
49 --azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing
52 Azure container registry configuration information.
53 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" Comma-separated
56 list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
57 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/cache" Default cache directory
60 --certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate
63 authority
64 --client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS
67 --client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS
70 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
73 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health
74 checks
75 --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
78 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health
79 checks
80 --cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
83 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json" location of
86 the container hints file
87 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock" containerd endpoint
90 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io" containerd namespace
93 --context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use
96 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
99 tionSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by
100 default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
101 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
104 tionSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added
105 by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
106 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false Disable collecting root Cgroup
109 stats
110 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" docker endpoint
113 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist="" a comma-separated list of envi‐
116 ronment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be
117 collected for docker containers
118 --docker-only=false Only report docker containers in addition to
121 root stats
122 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker" DEPRECATED: docker root is read
125 from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
126 --docker-tls=false use TLS to connect to docker
129 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem" path to trusted CA
132 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem" path to client certificate
135 --docker-tls-key="key.pem" path to private key
138 --enable-load-reader=false Whether to enable cpu load reader
141 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0" Max length of time for which
144 to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key val‐
145 ues, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default"
146 and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified
147 event types
148 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0" Max number of events to
151 store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where
152 the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the
153 value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event
154 types
155 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s Interval between global house‐
158 keepings
159 --housekeeping-interval=10s Interval between container housekeep‐
162 ings
163 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate
166 will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections
167 insecure
168 --kubeconfig="" use a particular kubeconfig file
171 --log-backtrace-at=:0 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack
174 trace
175 --log-cadvisor-usage=false Whether to log the usage of the cAdvi‐
178 sor container
179 --log-dir="" If non-empty, write log files in this directory
182 --log-file="" If non-empty, use this log file
185 --log-file-max-size=1800 Defines the maximum size a log file can
188 grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is
189 unlimited.
190 --log-flush-frequency=5s Maximum number of seconds between log
193 flushes
194 --logtostderr=true log to standard error instead of files
197 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
200 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
201 first one that exists.
202 --match-server-version=false Require server version to match
205 client version
206 -n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI
209 request
210 --one-output=false If true, only write logs to their native sever‐
213 ity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level
214 --password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server
217 --profile="none" Name of profile to capture. One of
220 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
221 --profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the
224 profile to
225 --referenced-reset-interval=0 Reset interval for referenced bytes
228 (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after
229 which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are
230 never cleared (default: 0)
231 --request-timeout="0" The length of time to wait before giving up
234 on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corre‐
235 sponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't time‐
236 out requests.
237 -s, --server="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
240 --skip-headers=false If true, avoid header prefixes in the log
243 messages
244 --skip-log-headers=false If true, avoid headers when opening log
247 files
248 --stderrthreshold=2 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
251 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s Writes in the storage driver
254 will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory
255 backends as a single transaction
256 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor" database name
259 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086" database host:port
262 --storage-driver-password="root" database password
265 --storage-driver-secure=false use secure connection with database
268 --storage-driver-table="stats" table name
271 --storage-driver-user="root" database username
274 --tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate
277 validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the
278 server is used
279 --token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server
282 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s Interval between machine info
285 updates.
286 --user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use
289 --username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server
292 -v, --v=0 number for the log level verbosity
295 --version=false Print version information and quit
298 --vmodule= comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for
301 file-filtered logging
302 --warnings-as-errors=false Treat warnings received from the server
305 as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code
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310 # Set the user field on the gce context entry without touching other values
311 kubectl config set-context gce --user=cluster-admin
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317 kubectl-config(1),
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322 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
323 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
324 been automatically generated since!
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