kubectl explain
Documentation of resources
Synopsis
Documentation of resources.
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 explain RESOURCE
Examples
# Get the documentation of the resource and its fields
kubectl explain pods
# Get the documentation of a specific field of a resource
kubectl explain pods.spec.containers
Options
--include-extended-apis If true, include definitions of new APIs via calls to the API server. [default true] (default true)
--recursive Print the fields of fields (Currently only 1 level deep)
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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