kubectl expose - Take a replication controller, service, deployment or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes Service
kubectl expose [OPTIONS]
Expose a resource as a new Kubernetes service.
Looks up a deployment, service, replica set, replication controller or pod by name and uses the selector for that resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A deployment or replica set will be exposed as a service only if its selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the selector contains only the matchLabels component. Note that if no port is specified via --port and the exposed resource has multiple ports, all will be re-used by the new service. Also if no labels are specified, the new service will re-use the labels from the resource it exposes.
Possible resources include (case insensitive):
pod (po), service (svc), replicationcontroller (rc), deployment (deploy), replicaset (rs)
--allow-missing-template-keys=true
If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.
--cluster-ip=""
ClusterIP to be assigned to the service. Leave empty to auto-allocate, or set to 'None' to create a headless service.
--container-port=""
Synonym for --target-port
--dry-run=false
If true, only print the object that would be sent, without sending it.
--external-ip=""
Additional external IP address (not managed by Kubernetes) to accept for the service. If this IP is routed to a node, the service can be accessed by this IP in addition to its generated service IP.
-f, --filename=[]
Filename, directory, or URL to files identifying the resource to expose a service
--generator="service/v2"
The name of the API generator to use. There are 2 generators: 'service/v1' and 'service/v2'. The only difference between them is that service port in v1 is named 'default', while it is left unnamed in v2. Default is 'service/v2'.
-k, --kustomize=""
Process the kustomization directory. This flag can't be used together with -f or -R.
-l, --labels=""
Labels to apply to the service created by this call.
--load-balancer-ip=""
IP to assign to the LoadBalancer. If empty, an ephemeral IP will be created and used (cloud-provider specific).
--name=""
The name for the newly created object.
-o, --output=""
Output format. One of: json|yaml|name|go-template|go-template-file|template|templatefile|jsonpath|jsonpath-file.
--overrides=""
An inline JSON override for the generated object. If this is non-empty, it is used to override the generated object. Requires that the object supply a valid apiVersion field.
--port=""
The port that the service should serve on. Copied from the resource being exposed, if unspecified
--protocol=""
The network protocol for the service to be created. Default is 'TCP'.
--record=false
Record current kubectl command in the resource annotation. If set to false, do not record the command. If set to true, record the command. If not set, default to updating the existing annotation value only if one already exists.
-R, --recursive=false
Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
--save-config=false
If true, the configuration of current object will be saved in its annotation. Otherwise, the annotation will be unchanged. This flag is useful when you want to perform kubectl apply on this object in the future.
--selector=""
A label selector to use for this service. Only equality-based selector requirements are supported. If empty (the default) infer the selector from the replication controller or replica set.)
--session-affinity=""
If non-empty, set the session affinity for the service to this; legal values: 'None', 'ClientIP'
--target-port=""
Name or number for the port on the container that the service should direct traffic to. Optional.
--template=""
Template string or path to template file to use when -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang templates [
<http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview>].
--type=""
Type for this service: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, or ExternalName. Default is 'ClusterIP'.
--alsologtostderr=false
log to standard error as well as files
--application-metrics-count-limit=100
Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
--as=""
Username to impersonate for the operation
--as-group=[]
Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
--azure-container-registry-config=""
Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information.
--boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
--cache-dir="/home/philippe/.kube/http-cache"
Default HTTP 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
--cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,209.85.152.0/22,209.85.204.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
--cluster=""
The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
--container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
location of the container hints file
--containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock"
containerd endpoint
--containerd-namespace="k8s.io"
containerd namespace
--context=""
The name of the kubeconfig context to use
--default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
--default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.
--docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
docker endpoint
--docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to be collected for docker containers
--docker-only=false
Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
--docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
--docker-tls=false
use TLS to connect to docker
--docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
path to trusted CA
--docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
path to client certificate
--docker-tls-key="key.pem"
path to private key
--enable-load-reader=false
Whether to enable cpu load reader
--event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified event types
--event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event types
--global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
Interval between global housekeepings
--housekeeping-interval=10s
Interval between container housekeepings
--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.
--log-backtrace-at=:0
when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
--log-cadvisor-usage=false
Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
--log-dir=""
If non-empty, write log files in this directory
--log-file=""
If non-empty, use this log file
--log-file-max-size=1800
Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited.
--log-flush-frequency=5s
Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
--logtostderr=true
log to standard error instead of files
--machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the first one that exists.
--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
--skip-headers=false
If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
--skip-log-headers=false
If true, avoid headers when opening log files
--stderrthreshold=2
logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
--storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
--storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
database name
--storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
database host:port
--storage-driver-password="root"
database password
--storage-driver-secure=false
use secure connection with database
--storage-driver-table="stats"
table name
--storage-driver-user="root"
database username
--token=""
Bearer token for authentication to the API server
--update-machine-info-interval=5m0s
Interval between machine info updates.
--user=""
The name of the kubeconfig user to use
--username=""
Username for basic authentication to the API server
-v, --v=0
number for the log level verbosity
--version=false
Print version information and quit
--vmodule=
comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging
# Create a service for a replicated nginx, which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000. kubectl expose rc nginx --port=80 --target-port=8000 # Create a service for a replication controller identified by type and name specified in "nginx-controller.yaml", which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000. kubectl expose -f nginx-controller.yaml --port=80 --target-port=8000 # Create a service for a pod valid-pod, which serves on port 444 with the name "frontend" kubectl expose pod valid-pod --port=444 --name=frontend # Create a second service based on the above service, exposing the container port 8443 as port 443 with the name "nginx-https" kubectl expose service nginx --port=443 --target-port=8443 --name=nginx-https # Create a service for a replicated streaming application on port 4100 balancing UDP traffic and named 'video-stream'. kubectl expose rc streamer --port=4100 --protocol=UDP --name=video-stream # Create a service for a replicated nginx using replica set, which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000. kubectl expose rs nginx --port=80 --target-port=8000 # Create a service for an nginx deployment, which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000. kubectl expose deployment nginx --port=80 --target-port=8000
kubectl(1),
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!