KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

💖 KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — the kubectl config use-context page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for kubectl config use-context, from the kubernetes manual. Originally written by Eric Paris back in January 2015, and honestly? the way it's survived this long is giving iconic. anyway. let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

kubectl config use-context — set the current-context in a kubeconfig file 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kubectl config use-context [OPTIONS]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Sets the current-context in a kubeconfig file. that's it. that's the whole job. you point at a context, it becomes the context. main character energy, honestly 💅

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these bad boys get handed down from the parent command, so they're not technically this command's own options but they absolutely show up to the party:

• --as="" — username to impersonate for the operation. user could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace. (yes, cosplaying as someone else is a whole thing here 🫶)
• --as-group=[] — group to impersonate for the operation. this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups. stack 'em up, queen 👑
• --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. repeat away, no cap 🔥
• --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. like, for real for real. do not do this casually, bestie.
• --kubeconfig="" — use a particular kubeconfig file
• --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. (zero = eternal patience, apparently 😭)
• -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. spicy take but okay 🔥

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

# Use the context for the minikube cluster
kubectl config use-context minikube

look at her go. one line, whole vibe shifted ✨

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• kubectl-config(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 audacity, the honesty, we love to see it 😭)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're fully caught up 🫶 this was the kubernetes manual, User section, from Manuals — stay slaying, and remember: context is everything 💅✨