KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

👑 KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — the kubeadm certs renew all page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the kubernetes manual, and the original author credit situation is Eric Paris, Jan 2015 — yes, that Eric Paris, we love a legend. anyway. let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

kubeadm certs renew all — renew all the available certificates 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kubeadm certs renew all [OPTIONS]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the vibe is: this renews every known certificate you need to run the control plane. all of them. the whole squad. 🫶

and the way it does it? unconditionally. it does not check the expiration date first, it does not ask questions, it does not care if your certs are literally fresh out of the box — it renews them anyway. periodt. 💀

if you want more control over your life (valid), you can also run the renewals individually instead. options, we love to see them. ✨

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --cert-dir="/etc/kubernetes/pki" — the path where your certificates get saved. yes, that's the default. yes, it's a lot of slashes. it's giving filesystem. 🗂️
• --config="" — path to a kubeadm configuration file. empty by default, so like, no config unless you say so. 🙈
• --kubeconfig="/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" — the kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. and here's the tea: if this flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file. it's basically doing a little scavenger hunt for your config. 🔍

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🧚 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🧚

these ones come down from the parent command, like hand-me-downs but actually useful:

• --rootfs="" — the path to the 'real' host root filesystem. setting this makes kubeadm chroot into the path you gave it. (note the quotes around 'real' — the original is being a little philosophical about it and honestly, same.) 🌈
• --version=false — okay so --version, and --version=raw, print version information and then quit. and --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version. it's not just telling you the version, it can also be the version. main character energy fr fr. 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• kubeadm-certs-renew(1),

(iykyk — go read the parent page, she's the moment. 💜)

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📜 HISTORY 📜

January 2015, originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material — but, in the original's own words, hopefully they have been automatically generated since! 😭 which is such a mood, honestly. let the robots handle it. 🤖

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap, nothing skipped, every flag accounted for. 🍓

this lil' doc lives under the manual section Manuals, section User, tagged KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — so like, if you ever need to cite your sources, there she is. take care of your certs and take care of yourself. mwah. 💋✨