kubectl describe
Show details of a specific resource or group of resources
Synopsis
Show details of a specific resource or group of resources. This command joins many API calls together to form a detailed description of a given resource or group of resources.
$ kubectl describe TYPE NAME_PREFIX
will first check for an exact match on TYPE and NAME_PREFIX. If no such resource exists, it will output details for every resource that has a name prefixed with NAME_PREFIX.
Valid resource types include: * clusters (valid only for federation apiservers) * componentstatuses (aka ‘cs’) * configmaps (aka ‘cm’) * daemonsets (aka ‘ds’) * deployments (aka ‘deploy’) * events (aka ‘ev’) * endpoints (aka ‘ep’) * horizontalpodautoscalers (aka ‘hpa’) * ingress (aka ‘ing’) * jobs * limitranges (aka ‘limits’) * nodes (aka ‘no’) * namespaces (aka ‘ns’) * petsets (alpha feature, may be unstable) * pods (aka ‘po’) * persistentvolumes (aka ‘pv’) * persistentvolumeclaims (aka ‘pvc’) * quota * resourcequotas (aka ‘quota’) * replicasets (aka ‘rs’) * replicationcontrollers (aka ‘rc’) * secrets * serviceaccounts (aka ‘sa’) * services (aka ‘svc’)
kubectl describe (-f FILENAME | TYPE [NAME_PREFIX | -l label] | TYPE/NAME)
Examples
# Describe a node
kubectl describe nodes kubernetes-minion-emt8.c.myproject.internal
# Describe a pod
kubectl describe pods/nginx
# Describe a pod identified by type and name in "pod.json"
kubectl describe -f pod.json
# Describe all pods
kubectl describe pods
# Describe pods by label name=myLabel
kubectl describe po -l name=myLabel
# Describe all pods managed by the 'frontend' replication controller (rc-created pods
# get the name of the rc as a prefix in the pod the name).
kubectl describe pods frontend
Options
--all-namespaces If present, list the requested object(s) across all namespaces. Namespace in current context is ignored even if specified with --namespace.
-f, --filename value Filename, directory, or URL to a file containing the resource to describe (default [])
--include-extended-apis If true, include definitions of new APIs via calls to the API server. [default true] (default true)
-R, --recursive Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
-l, --selector string Selector (label query) to filter on
--show-events If true, display events related to the described object. (default true)
Options inherited from parent commands
--alsologtostderr value log to standard error as well as files
--as string Username to impersonate for the operation
--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
--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.
--log-backtrace-at value when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace (default :0)
--log-dir value If non-empty, write log files in this directory
--logtostderr value log to standard error instead of files
--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
-s, --server string The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
--stderrthreshold value logs at or above this threshold go to stderr (default 2)
--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
-v, --v value log level for V logs
--vmodule value comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging
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