KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

💖 KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — the kubectl alpha kuberc glow-up 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let me tell you about this lil corner of the kubernetes manual. it's giving alpha, it's giving preferences, it's giving "yes i will absolutely customize my kubectl". let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

kubectl alpha kuberc — Manage kuberc configuration files

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

kubectl alpha kuberc [OPTIONS]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Manage user preferences (kuberc) file.

The kuberc file allows you to customize your kubectl experience. that's it, that's the whole vibe — your very own preferences file, your very own main character energy 👑

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💅 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💅

not me showing you the whole inheritance tree 😭 these all come from the parent command, so they're just there, chillin, ready for you:

• --as="" — Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.
• --as-group=[] — Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
• --as-uid="" — UID to impersonate for the operation.
• --as-user-extra=[] — User extras to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.
• --cache-dir="/home/username/.kube/cache" — Default cache directory
• --certificate-authority="" — Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
• --client-certificate="" — Path to a client certificate file for TLS
• --client-key="" — Path to a client key file for TLS
• --cluster="" — The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
• --context="" — The name of the kubeconfig context to use
• --disable-compression=false — If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
• --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false — If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

🚨 bestie, pay attention: setting this to true makes your HTTPS connections insecure. no cap. it literally says that. be careful fr fr.

• --kubeconfig="" — Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
• --kuberc="" — Path to the kuberc file to use for preferences. This can be disabled by exporting KUBECTL_KUBERC=false feature gate or turning off the feature KUBERC=off.
• --match-server-version=false — Require server version to match client version
• -n, --namespace="" — If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
• --password="" — Password for basic authentication to the API server
• --profile="none" — Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex|trace)
• --profile-output="profile.pprof" — Name of the file to write the profile to
• --request-timeout="0" — The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
• -s, --server="" — The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
• --tls-server-name="" — Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
• --token="" — Bearer token for authentication to the API server
• --user="" — The name of the kubeconfig user to use
• --username="" — Username for basic authentication to the API server
• --version=false — --version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version
• --warnings-as-errors=false — Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code

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🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

here's the part where it actually clicks, i promise. three lil scenarios, all iconic:

# View the current kuberc configuration
kubectl alpha kuberc view

# Set a default value for a command flag
kubectl alpha kuberc set --section defaults --command get --option output=wide

# Create an alias for a command
kubectl alpha kuberc set --section aliases --name getn --command get --prependarg nodes --option output=wide

look at that third one — getn as an alias that prepends nodes and sets output=wide?? that's the kind of quality-of-life that has me obsessed 😭💖 slay.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, they're the besties of this page:

• kubectl-alpha(1)
• kubectl-alpha-kuberc-set(1)
• kubectl-alpha-kuberc-view(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!

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💜 and that's a wrap! this page lives in the Manuals manual, User section, and the source/version line is just KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — the date on the original footer is the same KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) stamp, which is very "we reprint the header as the footer" of it. ngl kind of iconic. bye bestie, go configure ur preferences ✨🧚🎀