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kubectl explain

    Synopsis

    Describe fields and structure of various resources.

    This command describes the fields associated with each supported API resource. Fields are identified via a simple JSONPath identifier:

        <type>.<fieldName>[.<fieldName>]

    Information about each field is retrieved from the server in OpenAPI format.

    Use "kubectl api-resources" for a complete list of supported resources.

    kubectl explain TYPE [--recursive=FALSE|TRUE] [--api-version=api-version-group] [-o|--output=plaintext|plaintext-openapiv2]

    Examples

      # Get the documentation of the resource and its fields
  kubectl explain pods
  
  # Get all the fields in the resource
  kubectl explain pods --recursive
  
  # Get the explanation for deployment in supported api versions
  kubectl explain deployments --api-version=apps/v1
  
  # Get the documentation of a specific field of a resource
  kubectl explain pods.spec.containers
  
  # Get the documentation of resources in different format
  kubectl explain deployment --output=plaintext-openapiv2

    Options

    --api-version string

    Use given api-version (group/version) of the resource.

    -h, --help

    help for explain

    -o, --output string     Default: "plaintext"

    Format in which to render the schema. Valid values are: (plaintext, plaintext-openapiv2).

    --recursive

    When true, print the name of all the fields recursively. Otherwise, print the available fields with their description.

    --as string

    Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.

    --as-group strings

    Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

    --as-uid string

    UID to impersonate for the operation.

    --cache-dir string     Default: "$HOME/.kube/cache"

    Default cache directory

    --certificate-authority string

    Path to a cert file for the certificate authority

    --client-certificate string

    Path to a client certificate file for TLS

    --client-key string

    Path to a client key file for TLS

    --cluster string

    The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

    --context string

    The name of the kubeconfig context to use

    --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds int     Default: 300

    Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.

    --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds int     Default: 300

    Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.

    --disable-compression

    If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server

    --insecure-skip-tls-verify

    If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

    --kubeconfig string

    Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.

    --match-server-version

    Require server version to match client version

    -n, --namespace string

    If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

    --password string

    Password for basic authentication to the API server

    --profile string     Default: "none"

    Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)

    --profile-output string     Default: "profile.pprof"

    Name of the file to write the profile to

    --request-timeout string     Default: "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 string

    The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

    --storage-driver-buffer-duration duration     Default: 1m0s

    Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction

    --storage-driver-db string     Default: "cadvisor"

    database name

    --storage-driver-host string     Default: "localhost:8086"

    database host:port

    --storage-driver-password string     Default: "root"

    database password

    --storage-driver-secure

    use secure connection with database

    --storage-driver-table string     Default: "stats"

    table name

    --storage-driver-user string     Default: "root"

    database username

    --tls-server-name string

    Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used

    --token string

    Bearer token for authentication to the API server

    --user string

    The name of the kubeconfig user to use

    --username string

    Username for basic authentication to the API server

    --version version[=true]

    --version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version

    --warnings-as-errors

    Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code

    See Also

    • kubectl - kubectl controls the Kubernetes cluster manager