kubectl describe
kubectl describe
Show details of a specific resource or group of resources
Synopsis
Show details of a specific resource or group of resources. This command joins many API calls together to form a detailed description of a given resource or group of resources.
$ kubectl describe TYPE NAME_PREFIX
will first check for an exact match on TYPE and NAME PREFIX. If no such resource exists, it will output details for every resource that has a name prefixed with NAME PREFIX.
Valid resource types include:
- clusters (valid only for federation apiservers)
- componentstatuses (aka ‘cs’)
- configmaps (aka ‘cm’)
- daemonsets (aka ‘ds’)
- deployments (aka ‘deploy’)
- endpoints (aka ‘ep’)
- events (aka ‘ev’)
- horizontalpodautoscalers (aka ‘hpa’)
- ingresses (aka ‘ing’)
- jobs
- limitranges (aka ‘limits’)
- namespaces (aka ‘ns’)
- networkpolicies
- nodes (aka ‘no’)
- persistentvolumeclaims (aka ‘pvc’)
- persistentvolumes (aka ‘pv’)
- pods (aka ‘po’)
- podsecuritypolicies (aka ‘psp’)
- podtemplates
- replicasets (aka ‘rs’)
- replicationcontrollers (aka ‘rc’)
- resourcequotas (aka ‘quota’)
- secrets
- serviceaccounts (aka ‘sa’)
- services (aka ‘svc’)
- statefulsets
- storageclasses
- thirdpartyresources
kubectl describe (-f FILENAME | TYPE [NAME_PREFIX | -l label] | TYPE/NAME)
Examples
# Describe a node
kubectl describe nodes kubernetes-node-emt8.c.myproject.internal
# Describe a pod
kubectl describe pods/nginx
# Describe a pod identified by type and name in "pod.json"
kubectl describe -f pod.json
# Describe all pods
kubectl describe pods
# Describe pods by label name=myLabel
kubectl describe po -l name=myLabel
# Describe all pods managed by the 'frontend' replication controller (rc-created pods
# get the name of the rc as a prefix in the pod the name).
kubectl describe pods frontend
Options
--all-namespaces If present, list the requested object(s) across all namespaces. Namespace in current context is ignored even if specified with --namespace.
-f, --filename stringSlice Filename, directory, or URL to files containing the resource to describe
-R, --recursive Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
-l, --selector string Selector (label query) to filter on
--show-events If true, display events related to the described object. (default true)
Options inherited from parent commands
--alsologtostderr 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 traceLocation when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace (default :0)
--log-dir string If non-empty, write log files in this directory
--logtostderr 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
--request-timeout string 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. (default "0")
-s, --server string The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
--stderrthreshold severity 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 Level log level for V logs
--vmodule moduleSpec comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging
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