kubectl config set-credentials

Synopsis

Set a user entry in kubeconfig.

Specifying a name that already exists will merge new fields on top of existing values.

    Client-certificate flags:
    --client-certificate=certfile --client-key=keyfile
    
    Bearer token flags:
    --token=bearer_token
    
    Basic auth flags:
    --username=basic_user --password=basic_password

Bearer token and basic auth are mutually exclusive.

kubectl config set-credentials NAME [--client-certificate=path/to/certfile] [--client-key=path/to/keyfile] [--token=bearer_token] [--username=basic_user] [--password=basic_password] [--auth-provider=provider_name] [--auth-provider-arg=key=value] [--exec-command=exec_command] [--exec-api-version=exec_api_version] [--exec-arg=arg] [--exec-env=key=value]

Examples

  # Set only the "client-key" field on the "cluster-admin"
  # entry, without touching other values
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --client-key=~/.kube/admin.key
  
  # Set basic auth for the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --username=admin --password=uXFGweU9l35qcif
  
  # Embed client certificate data in the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --client-certificate=~/.kube/admin.crt --embed-certs=true
  
  # Enable the Google Compute Platform auth provider for the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --auth-provider=gcp
  
  # Enable the OpenID Connect auth provider for the "cluster-admin" entry with additional arguments
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --auth-provider=oidc --auth-provider-arg=client-id=foo --auth-provider-arg=client-secret=bar
  
  # Remove the "client-secret" config value for the OpenID Connect auth provider for the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --auth-provider=oidc --auth-provider-arg=client-secret-
  
  # Enable new exec auth plugin for the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-command=/path/to/the/executable --exec-api-version=client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1
  
  # Define new exec auth plugin arguments for the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-arg=arg1 --exec-arg=arg2
  
  # Create or update exec auth plugin environment variables for the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-env=key1=val1 --exec-env=key2=val2
  
  # Remove exec auth plugin environment variables for the "cluster-admin" entry
  kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-env=var-to-remove-

Options

--auth-provider string

Auth provider for the user entry in kubeconfig
--auth-provider-arg strings

'key=value' arguments for the auth provider
--client-certificate string

Path to client-certificate file for the user entry in kubeconfig
--client-key string

Path to client-key file for the user entry in kubeconfig
--embed-certs tristate[=true]

Embed client cert/key for the user entry in kubeconfig
--exec-api-version string

API version of the exec credential plugin for the user entry in kubeconfig
--exec-arg strings

New arguments for the exec credential plugin command for the user entry in kubeconfig
--exec-command string

Command for the exec credential plugin for the user entry in kubeconfig
--exec-env strings

'key=value' environment values for the exec credential plugin
-h, --help

help for set-credentials
--password string

password for the user entry in kubeconfig
--token string

token for the user entry in kubeconfig
--username string

username for the user entry in kubeconfig

--as string

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

Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
--as-uid string

UID to impersonate for the operation.
--azure-container-registry-config string

Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information.
--cache-dir string     Default: "$HOME/.kube/cache"

Default cache directory
--certificate-authority string

Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
--cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs cidrs     Default: 130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16

CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy & health checks
--cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs cidrs     Default: 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 L4 LB traffic proxy & health checks
--cluster string

The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
--context string

The name of the kubeconfig context to use
--default-not-ready-toleration-seconds int     Default: 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 int     Default: 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.
--disable-compression

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

use a particular kubeconfig file
--match-server-version

Require server version to match client version
-n, --namespace string

If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
--profile string     Default: "none"

Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
--profile-output string     Default: "profile.pprof"

Name of the file to write the profile to
--request-timeout string     Default: "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 string

The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
--storage-driver-buffer-duration duration     Default: 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 string     Default: "cadvisor"

database name
--storage-driver-host string     Default: "localhost:8086"

database host:port
--storage-driver-password string     Default: "root"

database password
--storage-driver-secure

use secure connection with database
--storage-driver-table string     Default: "stats"

table name
--storage-driver-user string     Default: "root"

database username
--tls-server-name string

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

The name of the kubeconfig user to use
--version version[=true]

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

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

See Also

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Last modified January 06, 2024 at 2:39 PM PST: Revise kubectl reference layout (7100b9ce32)