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kubectl version
Synopsis
Print the client and server version information for the current context.
kubectl version [flags]
Examples
# Print the client and server versions for the current context
kubectl version
Options
| --client | |
If true, shows client version only (no server required). | |
| -h, --help | |
help for version | |
| -o, --output string | |
One of 'yaml' or 'json'. | |
| --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. | |
| --azure-container-registry-config string | |
Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information. | |
| --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 | |
| --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs cidrs Default: 130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16 | |
CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy & health checks | |
| --cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs cidrs Default: 130.211.0.0/22,209.85.152.0/22,209.85.204.0/22,35.191.0.0/16 | |
CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy & health checks | |
| --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
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