1KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)
2Eric Paris Jan 2015
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9 kubectl describe - Show details of a specific resource or group of re‐
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15 kubectl describe [OPTIONS]
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20 Show details of a specific resource or group of resources.
21 Print a detailed description of the selected resources, including re‐
24 lated resources such as events or controllers. You may select a single
25 object by name, all objects of that type, provide a name prefix, or la‐
26 bel selector. For example:
27 $ kubectl describe TYPE NAME_PREFIX
30 will first check for an exact match on TYPE and NAME_PREFIX. If no such
33 resource exists, it will output details for every resource that has a
34 name prefixed with NAME_PREFIX.
35 Use "kubectl api-resources" for a complete list of supported resources.
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42 -A, --all-namespaces=false If present, list the requested ob‐
43 ject(s) across all namespaces. Namespace in current context is ignored
44 even if specified with --namespace.
45 --chunk-size=500 Return large lists in chunks rather than all at
48 once. Pass 0 to disable. This flag is beta and may change in the fu‐
49 ture.
50 -f, --filename=[] Filename, directory, or URL to files containing
53 the resource to describe
54 -k, --kustomize="" Process the kustomization directory. This flag
57 can't be used together with -f or -R.
58 -R, --recursive=false Process the directory used in -f, --filename
61 recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized
62 within the same directory.
63 -l, --selector="" Selector (label query) to filter on, supports
66 '=', '==', and '!='.(e.g. -l key1=value1,key2=value2). Matching objects
67 must satisfy all of the specified label constraints.
68 --show-events=true If true, display events related to the de‐
71 scribed object.
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76 --as="" Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a
77 regular user or a service account in a namespace.
78 --as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag
81 can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
82 --as-uid="" UID to impersonate for the operation.
85 --azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing
88 Azure container registry configuration information.
89 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/cache" Default cache directory
92 --certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate
95 authority
96 --client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS
99 --client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS
102 --cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
105 --context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use
108 --disable-compression=false If true, opt-out of response compres‐
111 sion for all requests to the server
112 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate
115 will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections
116 insecure
117 --kubeconfig="" Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI re‐
120 quests.
121 --match-server-version=false Require server version to match
124 client version
125 -n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI
128 request
129 --password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server
132 --profile="none" Name of profile to capture. One of
135 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
136 --profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the
139 profile to
140 --request-timeout="0" The length of time to wait before giving up
143 on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corre‐
144 sponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't time‐
145 out requests.
146 -s, --server="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
149 --tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate
152 validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the
153 server is used
154 --token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server
157 --user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use
160 --username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server
163 --version=false Print version information and quit
166 --warnings-as-errors=false Treat warnings received from the server
169 as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code
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174 # Describe a node
175 kubectl describe nodes kubernetes-node-emt8.c.myproject.internal
176 # Describe a pod
178 kubectl describe pods/nginx
179 # Describe a pod identified by type and name in "pod.json"
181 kubectl describe -f pod.json
182 # Describe all pods
184 kubectl describe pods
185 # Describe pods by label name=myLabel
187 kubectl describe po -l name=myLabel
188 # Describe all pods managed by the 'frontend' replication controller
190 # (rc-created pods get the name of the rc as a prefix in the pod name)
191 kubectl describe pods frontend
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197 kubectl(1),
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202 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
203 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
204 been automatically generated since!
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