KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

✨ KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) ✨

okay bestie so you found the kubectl manpage section of the Kubernetes manual (yes, the manual is literally named kubernetes, that's the vibe) 🫶 and this particular page was put together by Eric Paris all the way back in January 2015. let's get into it 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

kubectl options — this prints out the list of flags that every single kubectl command inherits. like, the whole shared wardrobe of flags. no cap. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kubectl options [OPTIONS]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Print the list of flags inherited by all commands. that's it. that's the whole job. she's simple, she's iconic, she's serving pure utility ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🎀

these bad boys come down from the parent commands, so they're basically the family heirlooms 💜

• --as="" — the username you wanna impersonate for the operation. could be a regular user, or a service account sitting inside a namespace.
• --as-group=[] — the group you wanna impersonate for the operation. lowkey repeatable, so you can pass it multiple times to line up multiple groups.
• --as-uid="" — the UID you wanna impersonate for the operation.
• --as-user-extra=[] — user extras you wanna impersonate for the operation. also repeatable, so you can stack multiple values onto the same key.
• --cache-dir="/home/username/.kube/cache" — the default cache directory. that's her home 🏠
• --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, you 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. heads up bestie, this makes 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. you can turn this off by exporting the KUBECTL_KUBERC=false feature gate, or by turning off the feature with KUBERC=off.
• --match-server-version=false — require the server version to match the 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 the 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" — how long to wait before giving up on a single server request. non-zero values should carry a matching time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). a value of zero means don't timeout requests, we wait forever, we are devoted 💀
• -s, --server="" — the address and port of the Kubernetes API server.
• --tls-server-name="" — server name to use for server certificate validation. if it's not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used instead.
• --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. dramatic but valid 😭

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

  # Print flags inherited by all commands
  kubectl options

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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! (her words, not mine — she's manifesting automation 🙈)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came out of the Manuals / User corner of the docs, filed under KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes), dated Jan 2015. go forth and print those inherited flags, you absolute main character 🎀✨