KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

💖 KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about kubectl certificate approve — straight out of the kubernetes manual, no cap. written by Eric Paris back in Jan 2015 (an OG fr fr) 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

kubectl certificate approve — Approve a certificate signing request

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kubectl certificate approve [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Approve a certificate signing request. that's the whole vibe.

kubectl certificate approve lets a cluster admin approve a certificate signing request (CSR). what does that actually do, you ask? it tells a certificate signing controller to issue a certificate to the requester, with the attributes that were requested in the CSR. so you're basically the one hitting the little green checkmark 💅

⚠️ SECURITY NOTICE: Depending on the requested attributes, the issued certificate can potentially grant a requester access to cluster resources or to authenticate as a requested identity. Before approving a CSR, ensure you understand what the signed certificate can do. like, genuinely, read it first. this is NOT the moment to be clicking yes on autopilot, bestie 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --allow-missing-template-keys=true — If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.
• -f, --filename=[] — Filename, directory, or URL to files identifying the resource to update
• --force=false — Update the CSR even if it is already approved.
• -k, --kustomize="" — Process the kustomization directory. This flag can't be used together with -f or -R. (it's giving "pick a lane" energy 🚫)
• -o, --output="" — Output format. One of: (json, yaml, kyaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).
• -R, --recursive=false — Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
• --show-managed-fields=false — If true, keep the managedFields when printing objects in JSON or YAML format.
• --template="" — Template string or path to template file to use when -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang templates [http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview].

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these are the family heirlooms, they come down from the parent command ✨

• --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 🔥 (do NOT do this casually, that's not the slay you think it is)
• --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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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's the moment you've been waiting for, the actual glow-up 🦋

  # Approve CSR 'csr-sqgzp'
  kubectl certificate approve csr-sqgzp

that's it. one line. ate and left no crumbs 💅

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• kubectl-certificate(1)

💜 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! (ngl that last part is a mood 😭)

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and that's the whole page bestie, iykyk 🧚 — this one's filed under Manuals / User, page KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes). go approve those CSRs responsibly, mwah 💖✨🎀