KubeOne(1)

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💅 KubeOne(1) — kubeone-certificates-renew

okay bestie, welcome to the KubeOne manual, and specifically the kubeone-certificates-renew page 🎀 this is the one that gives your cluster's certs a lil spa day. sit down, grab a boba, we're doing this ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

kubeone-certificates-renew — renews, like, all the certificates of the Kubernetes control plane and kubelets. all of them. every last one. slay 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kubeone certificates renew [flags]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe 💖 this command runs kubeadm certs renew all across your control plane VMs, and then restarts the control plane pods after that. iconic behavior, no notes.

wanna read more? the docs are right here, go off:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/kubeadm/kubeadm-certs/#manual-certificate-renewal

and as a lil bonus — it will also approve pending kubelet CSRs 👑 like yes queen, get those signed.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for renew. the "wait what does this do again" button 🙈

🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these ones come from the parent command, so they're not even this command's own — they're inherited, main character energy by association 💜

  • -c, --credentials="" — file to source credentials and secrets from 🔐
  • -d, --debug[=false] — debug output, with stacktrace. for when things are giving chaos 😭
  • -l, --log-format="text" — format for logging
  • -m, --manifest="./kubeone.yaml" — path to the KubeOne config 📄
  • -t, --tfjson="" — source for terraform output in JSON. read from stdin if you want — if the path is a file, its contents will be used; if the path is a dictionary, terraform output -json is executed in this path 🧚
  • -v, --verbose[=false] — verbose output. for the girlies who need every detail 👀

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

kubeone certificates renew --tfjson tf.json --manifest kubeone.yaml

look at that. chef's kiss. you're basically a sysadmin now 🔥

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

8-Feb-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra

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and that's the page bestie!! 🌸 from the KubeOne manual crew, auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Feb 2026 — KubeOne(1) and out ✨🫶💜

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