NAME¶

kubectl cp - Copy files and directories to and from containers

SYNOPSIS¶

kubectl cp [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION¶

Copy files and directories to and from containers.

OPTIONS¶

-c, --container="" Container name. If omitted, use the kubectl.kubernetes.io/default-container annotation for selecting the container to be attached or the first container in the pod will be chosen

--no-preserve=false The copied file/directory's ownership and permissions will not be preserved in the container

--retries=0 Set number of retries to complete a copy operation from a container. Specify 0 to disable or any negative value for infinite retrying. The default is 0 (no retry).

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.

--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¶

  # !!!Important Note!!!


  # Requires that the 'tar' binary is present in your container


  # image.  If 'tar' is not present, 'kubectl cp' will fail.


  #


  # For advanced use cases, such as symlinks, wildcard expansion or


  # file mode preservation, consider using 'kubectl exec'.


  


  # Copy /tmp/foo local file to /tmp/bar in a remote pod in namespace <some-namespace>


  tar cf - /tmp/foo | kubectl exec -i -n <some-namespace> <some-pod> -- tar xf - -C /tmp/bar


  


  # Copy /tmp/foo from a remote pod to /tmp/bar locally


  kubectl exec -n <some-namespace> <some-pod> -- tar cf - /tmp/foo | tar xf - -C /tmp/bar


  


  # Copy /tmp/foo_dir local directory to /tmp/bar_dir in a remote pod in the default namespace


  kubectl cp /tmp/foo_dir <some-pod>:/tmp/bar_dir


  


  # Copy /tmp/foo local file to /tmp/bar in a remote pod in a specific container


  kubectl cp /tmp/foo <some-pod>:/tmp/bar -c <specific-container>


  


  # Copy /tmp/foo local file to /tmp/bar in a remote pod in namespace <some-namespace>


  kubectl cp /tmp/foo <some-namespace>/<some-pod>:/tmp/bar


  


  # Copy /tmp/foo from a remote pod to /tmp/bar locally


  kubectl cp <some-namespace>/<some-pod>:/tmp/foo /tmp/bar

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!