KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

✨ KUBERNETES(1) — the kubectl alpha page, section 1 of the kubernetes manual ✨

okay bestie, you found the kubectl alpha page in the kubernetes manual set 💖 this one's short and sweet — it's basically the doorway to all the shiny unfinished stuff. let's get into it 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kubectl alpha — commands for features in alpha 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kubectl alpha [OPTIONS]

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea: these commands map to alpha features — the ones that are not enabled in Kubernetes clusters by default. no cap. if you're poking around in here, you're living on the bleeding edge and honestly? iconic. just know the cluster isn't going to have these turned on for you out of the box 🫶

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🔥 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🔥

these aren't kubectl alpha's own flags, they're the ones it inherits from the parent command (yes, kubectl itself, the main character 👑). all of them, in order, zero skips:

• --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.

🚨 bestie this one is literally in the name: this will make your HTTPS connections insecure. the manpage says it, i'm saying it, we're all saying it. 💀

• --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.
• --proxy-url="" — proxy URL to use for requests to the API server.
• --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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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• kubectl(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! 😭 the vibe of a manpage that admits it hopes a robot writes it now. honestly? real.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 go forth and alpha responsibly 💖

sign-off cuteness: this little gem lives in the Manuals collection under the User category, tagged KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes), and it's dated way back in January 2015 ⭐ bye bestie, slay 💅