NAME¶

kubectl explain - Get documentation for a resource

SYNOPSIS¶

kubectl explain [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION¶

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.

OPTIONS¶

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

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

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

OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS¶

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

--as-group=[] Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

--as-uid="" UID to impersonate for the operation.

--azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information.

--cache-dir="/home/username/.kube/cache" Default cache directory

--certificate-authority="" Path to a cert file for the certificate authority

--client-certificate="" Path to a client certificate file for TLS

--client-key="" Path to a client key file for TLS

--cluster="" The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

--context="" The name of the kubeconfig context to use

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

--insecure-skip-tls-verify=false If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

--kubeconfig="" Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.

--match-server-version=false Require server version to match client version

-n, --namespace="" If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

--password="" Password for basic authentication to the API server

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

--profile-output="profile.pprof" Name of the file to write the profile to

--request-timeout="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="" The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

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

--token="" Bearer token for authentication to the API server

--user="" The name of the kubeconfig user to use

--username="" Username for basic authentication to the API server

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

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

EXAMPLE¶

  # 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

SEE ALSO¶

kubectl(1),

HISTORY¶

January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since!