KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

✨ KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading the kubernetes manual page together 💖 this is the one for kubectl create service, and yes the manual name is right there in the title, we're being official about it.

Eric Paris, Jan 2015 — those are the credits, hold that thought, we'll gush about them at the end 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kubectl create service — Create a service using a specified subcommand

like... that's the whole vibe. you say "create service" and it goes "say less, which subcommand" 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kubectl create service [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the line. short, iconic, no notes 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Create a service using a specified subcommand.

literally the entire description, it's giving minimalist main character energy and honestly? respect 🫶 the subcommand is doing the heavy lifting, this page is just the doorway.

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💅 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💅

not me showing up with the inherited options, the ones your parent command handed down like hand-me-down jeans that are actually cute 💜 these apply here because they come from up the chain, so let's go one by one, no skipping, we don't do that here.

• --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
• --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

🚨 bestie real talk for one sec: --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false — if you flip that to true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. That makes your HTTPS connections insecure. It's giving "walking into the club with your eyes closed" energy. don't do it unless you know exactly why 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, they're the whole friend group fr fr:

• kubectl-create(1)
• kubectl-create-service-clusterip(1)
• kubectl-create-service-externalname(1)
• kubectl-create-service-loadbalancer(1)
• kubectl-create-service-nodeport(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!

ngl that last part is so real of them 😭 the "hopefully they have been automatically generated since" is a mood and honestly the most honest sentence in any manpage ever. not a single person typing these by hand in 2015 wanted to keep doing it. they ate and they knew it 🫶

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and that's the page, bestie!! ✨ this came out of the kubernetes manual set, User section, dated Jan 2015 — go create a service, you got this, slay 💖💅🎀