kubeadm config
During kubeadm init, kubeadm uploads the ClusterConfiguration object to your cluster
in a ConfigMap called kubeadm-config in the kube-system namespace. This configuration is then read during
kubeadm join, kubeadm reset and kubeadm upgrade. To view this ConfigMap call kubeadm config view.
You can use kubeadm config print to print the default configuration and kubeadm config migrate to
convert your old configuration files to a newer version. kubeadm config images list and
kubeadm config images pull can be used to list and pull the images that kubeadm requires.
In Kubernetes v1.13.0 and later to list/pull kube-dns images instead of the CoreDNS image
the --config method described here
has to be used.
- kubeadm config view
- kubeadm config print init-defaults
- kubeadm config print join-defaults
- kubeadm config migrate
- kubeadm config images list
- kubeadm config images pull
- What's next
kubeadm config view
Synopsis
Using this command, you can view the ConfigMap in the cluster where the configuration for kubeadm is located.
The configuration is located in the “kube-system” namespace in the “kubeadm-config” ConfigMap.
kubeadm config view [flags]
Options
| -h, --help | |
| help for view | |
Options inherited from parent commands
| --kubeconfig string Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" | |
| The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file. | |
| --rootfs string | |
| [EXPERIMENTAL] The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. | |
kubeadm config print init-defaults
Synopsis
This command prints objects such as the default init configuration that is used for ‘kubeadm init’.
Note that sensitive values like the Bootstrap Token fields are replaced with placeholder values like {“abcdef.0123456789abcdef” “” “nil” <nil> [] []} in order to pass validation but not perform the real computation for creating a token.
kubeadm config print init-defaults [flags]
Options
| --component-configs stringSlice | |
| A comma-separated list for component config API objects to print the default values for. Available values: [KubeProxyConfiguration KubeletConfiguration]. If this flag is not set, no component configs will be printed. | |
| -h, --help | |
| help for init-defaults | |
Options inherited from parent commands
| --kubeconfig string Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" | |
| The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file. | |
| --rootfs string | |
| [EXPERIMENTAL] The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. | |
kubeadm config print join-defaults
Synopsis
This command prints objects such as the default join configuration that is used for ‘kubeadm join’.
Note that sensitive values like the Bootstrap Token fields are replaced with placeholder values like {“abcdef.0123456789abcdef” “” “nil” <nil> [] []} in order to pass validation but not perform the real computation for creating a token.
kubeadm config print join-defaults [flags]
Options
| --component-configs stringSlice | |
| A comma-separated list for component config API objects to print the default values for. Available values: [KubeProxyConfiguration KubeletConfiguration]. If this flag is not set, no component configs will be printed. | |
| -h, --help | |
| help for join-defaults | |
Options inherited from parent commands
| --kubeconfig string Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" | |
| The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file. | |
| --rootfs string | |
| [EXPERIMENTAL] The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. | |
kubeadm config migrate
Synopsis
This command lets you convert configuration objects of older versions to the latest supported version, locally in the CLI tool without ever touching anything in the cluster. In this version of kubeadm, the following API versions are supported: - kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta2
Further, kubeadm can only write out config of version “kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta2”, but read both types. So regardless of what version you pass to the –old-config parameter here, the API object will be read, deserialized, defaulted, converted, validated, and re-serialized when written to stdout or –new-config if specified.
In other words, the output of this command is what kubeadm actually would read internally if you submitted this file to “kubeadm init”
kubeadm config migrate [flags]
Options
| -h, --help | |
| help for migrate | |
| --new-config string | |
| Path to the resulting equivalent kubeadm config file using the new API version. Optional, if not specified output will be sent to STDOUT. | |
| --old-config string | |
| Path to the kubeadm config file that is using an old API version and should be converted. This flag is mandatory. | |
Options inherited from parent commands
| --kubeconfig string Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" | |
| The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file. | |
| --rootfs string | |
| [EXPERIMENTAL] The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. | |
kubeadm config images list
Synopsis
Print a list of images kubeadm will use. The configuration file is used in case any images or image repositories are customized
kubeadm config images list [flags]
Options
| --config string | |
| Path to a kubeadm configuration file. | |
| --feature-gates string | |
| A set of key=value pairs that describe feature gates for various features. Options are: IPv6DualStack=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) | |
| -h, --help | |
| help for list | |
| --image-repository string Default: "k8s.gcr.io" | |
| Choose a container registry to pull control plane images from | |
| --kubernetes-version string Default: "stable-1" | |
| Choose a specific Kubernetes version for the control plane. | |
Options inherited from parent commands
| --kubeconfig string Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" | |
| The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file. | |
| --rootfs string | |
| [EXPERIMENTAL] The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. | |
kubeadm config images pull
Synopsis
Pull images used by kubeadm
kubeadm config images pull [flags]
Options
| --config string | |
| Path to a kubeadm configuration file. | |
| --cri-socket string | |
| Path to the CRI socket to connect. If empty kubeadm will try to auto-detect this value; use this option only if you have more than one CRI installed or if you have non-standard CRI socket. | |
| --feature-gates string | |
| A set of key=value pairs that describe feature gates for various features. Options are: IPv6DualStack=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) | |
| -h, --help | |
| help for pull | |
| --image-repository string Default: "k8s.gcr.io" | |
| Choose a container registry to pull control plane images from | |
| --kubernetes-version string Default: "stable-1" | |
| Choose a specific Kubernetes version for the control plane. | |
Options inherited from parent commands
| --kubeconfig string Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf" | |
| The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file. | |
| --rootfs string | |
| [EXPERIMENTAL] The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. | |
What's next
- kubeadm upgrade to upgrade a Kubernetes cluster to a newer version
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