KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, gather round, it's kubeadm — the kubeadm manual page from the kubernetes manual, and it's literally here to easily bootstrap a secure Kubernetes cluster. that's the whole vibe. 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kubeadm [OPTIONS]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so, presenting… the moment:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ KUBEADM                                                  │
│ Easily bootstrap a secure Kubernetes cluster             │
│                                                          │
│ Please give us feedback at:                              │
│ https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues             │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

not me dropping the feedback link in the description like it's a linktree — but fr fr, go tell them what you think at https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues. 🦋

Example usage:

so here's the dream scenario, a two-machine cluster — one control-plane node (she's the one actually controlling the cluster, main character energy fr), and one worker node (that's where your workloads live and breathe — like Pods and Deployments run there). 🫶

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ On the first machine:                                    │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ control-plane# kubeadm init                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ On the second machine:                                   │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ worker# kubeadm join <arguments-returned-from-init>      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

and then?? the way that you can just repeat that second step on as many other machines as you like?? iconic. scale it, bestie. 📈✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --rootfs="" — the path to the 'real' host root filesystem. this makes kubeadm chroot into whatever path you hand it. lowkey powerful, so know what you're doing. 👑
• --version=false — okay so: --version or --version=raw prints version information and then dips (quits immediately, no notes). and --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version. slay. ⭐

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, no cap:

• kubeadm-alpha(1)
• kubeadm-certs(1)
• kubeadm-completion(1)
• kubeadm-config(1)
• kubeadm-init(1)
• kubeadm-join(1)
• kubeadm-kubeconfig(1)
• kubeadm-reset(1)
• kubeadm-token(1)
• kubeadm-upgrade(1)
• kubeadm-version(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! 😭 honestly, the glow-up from hand-written to auto-generated is so real.

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it. now go bootstrap something secure. 🔥

this was the kubernetes manual, section User, dated Jan 2015 — and yeah, the original compiler credit goes to Eric Paris. mwah. 💜