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 --show-managed-fields=false If true, keep the managedFields when
54 printing objects in JSON or YAML format.
55 --template="" Template string or path to template file to use when
58 -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang tem‐
59 plates [http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview].
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64 --add-dir-header=false If true, adds the file directory to the
65 header of the log messages
66 --alsologtostderr=false log to standard error as well as files
69 --application-metrics-count-limit=100 Max number of application
72 metrics to store (per container)
73 --as="" Username to impersonate for the operation
76 --as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag
79 can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
80 --azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing
83 Azure container registry configuration information.
84 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" Comma-separated
87 list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
88 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/cache" Default cache directory
91 --certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate
94 authority
95 --client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS
98 --client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS
101 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
104 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health
105 checks
106 --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
109 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health
110 checks
111 --cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
114 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json" location of
117 the container hints file
118 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock" containerd endpoint
121 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io" containerd namespace
124 --context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use
127 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
130 tionSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by
131 default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
132 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300 Indicates the tolera‐
135 tionSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added
136 by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
137 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false Disable collecting root Cgroup
140 stats
141 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" docker endpoint
144 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist="" a comma-separated list of envi‐
147 ronment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be
148 collected for docker containers
149 --docker-only=false Only report docker containers in addition to
152 root stats
153 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker" DEPRECATED: docker root is read
156 from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
157 --docker-tls=false use TLS to connect to docker
160 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem" path to trusted CA
163 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem" path to client certificate
166 --docker-tls-key="key.pem" path to private key
169 --enable-load-reader=false Whether to enable cpu load reader
172 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0" Max length of time for which
175 to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key val‐
176 ues, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default"
177 and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified
178 event types
179 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0" Max number of events to
182 store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where
183 the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the
184 value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event
185 types
186 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s Interval between global house‐
189 keepings
190 --housekeeping-interval=10s Interval between container housekeep‐
193 ings
194 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate
197 will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections
198 insecure
199 --kubeconfig="" use a particular kubeconfig file
202 --log-backtrace-at=:0 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack
205 trace
206 --log-cadvisor-usage=false Whether to log the usage of the cAdvi‐
209 sor container
210 --log-dir="" If non-empty, write log files in this directory
213 --log-file="" If non-empty, use this log file
216 --log-file-max-size=1800 Defines the maximum size a log file can
219 grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is
220 unlimited.
221 --log-flush-frequency=5s Maximum number of seconds between log
224 flushes
225 --logtostderr=true log to standard error instead of files
228 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
231 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
232 first one that exists.
233 --match-server-version=false Require server version to match
236 client version
237 -n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI
240 request
241 --one-output=false If true, only write logs to their native sever‐
244 ity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level)
245 --password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server
248 --profile="none" Name of profile to capture. One of
251 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
252 --profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the
255 profile to
256 --referenced-reset-interval=0 Reset interval for referenced bytes
259 (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after
260 which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are
261 never cleared (default: 0)
262 --request-timeout="0" The length of time to wait before giving up
265 on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corre‐
266 sponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't time‐
267 out requests.
268 -s, --server="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
271 --skip-headers=false If true, avoid header prefixes in the log
274 messages
275 --skip-log-headers=false If true, avoid headers when opening log
278 files
279 --stderrthreshold=2 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
282 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s Writes in the storage driver
285 will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory
286 backends as a single transaction
287 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor" database name
290 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086" database host:port
293 --storage-driver-password="root" database password
296 --storage-driver-secure=false use secure connection with database
299 --storage-driver-table="stats" table name
302 --storage-driver-user="root" database username
305 --tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate
308 validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the
309 server is used
310 --token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server
313 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s Interval between machine info
316 updates.
317 --user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use
320 --username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server
323 -v, --v=0 number for the log level verbosity
326 --version=false Print version information and quit
329 --vmodule= comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for
332 file-filtered logging
333 --warnings-as-errors=false Treat warnings received from the server
336 as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code
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341 # Show merged kubeconfig settings.
342 kubectl config view
343 # Show merged kubeconfig settings and raw certificate data.
345 kubectl config view --raw
346 # Get the password for the e2e user
348 kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.users[?(@.name == "e2e")].user.password}'
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354 kubectl-config(1),
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359 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
360 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
361 been automatically generated since!
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