KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

👑 KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — the kubeadm reset glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to the kubernetes manual (section 1, user commands, yes we're fancy) 💅 this page is about kubeadm reset, and honestly it's giving "undo button but make it dramatic."

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✨ NAME ✨

kubeadm reset — does a best effort revert of all the changes kubeadm init or kubeadm join made to this host 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kubeadm reset [OPTIONS]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

fr fr, it performs a best effort revert of changes made to this host by kubeadm init or kubeadm join. "best effort" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence, just so you know 👀

The reset command runs these phases, in this order:

• preflight — Run reset pre-flight checks
• remove-etcd-member — Remove a local etcd member.
• cleanup-node — Run cleanup node.

periodt. that's the whole pipeline.

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --cert-dir="/etc/kubernetes/pki" — the path to the directory where the certificates are stored. If specified, clean this directory. bye bye certs 🎀
• --cleanup-tmp-dir=false — cleanup the /etc/kubernetes/tmp directory.
• --config="" — path to a kubeadm configuration file.
• --cri-socket="" — path to the CRI socket to connect. If it's empty, kubeadm will try to auto-detect this value. only use this option if you have more than one CRI installed, or if you have a non-standard CRI socket 🧚
• --dry-run=false — don't apply any changes; just output what would be done. the "look but don't touch" setting, iconic.
• -f, --force=false — reset the node without prompting for confirmation. no take-backs, no are-you-sure, just vibes.
• --ignore-preflight-errors=[] — a list of checks whose errors will be shown as warnings. Example: 'IsPrivilegedUser,Swap'. the value 'all' ignores errors from all checks 😭
• --kubeconfig="/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" — the kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.
• --skip-phases=[] — list of phases to be skipped.

not me warning you: -f / --force skips the confirmation prompt entirely. the reset just happens. know that before you type it 💀

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these are the ones that trickle down from the big kubeadm parent, iykyk:

• --rootfs="" — the path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.
• --version=false — --version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• kubeadm(1)
• kubeadm-reset-phase(1)

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📜 HISTORY 📜

January 2015 — originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com), based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since! main character energy from 2015, honestly 👑

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and that's the tea 🍓 this was the User manual, KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes), brought to you by Manuals — stay slay, stay reset 🫶✨