kubeadm(1)

kubeadm1

Kubeadm: easily bootstrap a secure kubernetes cluster

Usage

kubeadm [OPTIONS]

Eric Paris Jan 2015

Overview

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ KUBEADM                                                  │
│ Easily bootstrap a secure Kubernetes cluster             │
│                                                          │
│ Please give us feedback at:                              │
│ https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues             │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Example usage:

Create a two-machine cluster with one control-plane node
(which controls the cluster), and one worker node
(where your workloads, like Pods and Deployments run).
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ On the first machine:                                    │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ control-plane# kubeadm init                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ On the second machine:                                   │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ worker# kubeadm join <arguments-returned-from-init>      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
You can then repeat the second step on as many other machines as you like.

Options

--rootfs=""
The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.

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

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!

From kubeadm 1.37.2-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.