KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

💖 NAME 💖

kubectl version — bestie, this prints the client AND server version info. That's it. That's the whole job. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kubectl version [OPTIONS]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so, like — it prints the client and server version information for the current context. That's literally it. One command, all the version tea. 💅

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• --client=false — set this to true and you get the client version ONLY, no server required. Solo mission energy. 🫶
• -o, --output="" — pick your format, bestie. It's one of 'yaml' or 'json'. That's the whole menu. ✨

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

These are the ones you get handed down from the parent command, like vintage jewelry but for flags 💜

• --as="" — username to impersonate for the operation. Could be a regular user, or a service account in a namespace. main character moment but for someone else 😭
• --as-group=[] — group to impersonate for the operation. You can repeat this flag to specify multiple groups, periodt.
• --as-uid="" — UID to impersonate for the operation.
• --as-user-extra=[] — user extras to impersonate for the operation. Repeatable! You can specify multiple values for the same key. slay 🎀
• --cache-dir="/home/username/.kube/cache" — the default cache directory. cozy little home for your cache 🏠
• --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. pick your timeline, bestie 🌈
• --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. Which will make your HTTPS connections insecure. 🚨 like… do not do this casually, fr fr. it's giving unverified.
• --kubeconfig="" — path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
• --kuberc="" — path to the kuberc file to use for preferences. You can disable this 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. they have to be twins or it's not happening 👯
• -n, --namespace="" — if present, the namespace scope for this CLI request.
• --password="" — password for basic authentication to the API server. (keep it secret, keep it safe 🙈)
• --profile="none" — name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex|trace). so many choices, so little time 💀
• --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 = infinite patience, iconic 🌸
• -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. yes it's a flag inside a command about versions, we don't make the rules 🤡
• --warnings-as-errors=false — treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code. no notes, just consequences 💅

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

   # Print the client and server versions for the current context
   kubectl version

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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! like, imagine hand-writing all this in 2015, we would simply pass away 😭

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okay bestie that's the whole page 💖 this one came out of the KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) manual, and it's living in the User section — the version and date vibes are from Manuals / User, January 2015 energy, mwah 🎀✨