kubectl-config-set-cluster(1)

kubectl-config-set-cluster1

Set a cluster entry in kubeconfig

Usage

kubectl config set-cluster [OPTIONS]

Eric Paris Jan 2015

Overview

Set a cluster entry in kubeconfig.

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

Options

--certificate-authority=""
Path to certificate-authority file for the cluster entry in kubeconfig

--embed-certs=false
embed-certs for the cluster entry in kubeconfig

--insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
insecure-skip-tls-verify for the cluster entry in kubeconfig

--proxy-url=""
proxy-url for the cluster entry in kubeconfig

--server=""
server for the cluster entry in kubeconfig

--tls-server-name=""
tls-server-name for the cluster entry in kubeconfig

Options inherited from parent commands

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

--as-group=[]
Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

--as-uid=""
UID to impersonate for the operation.

--as-user-extra=[]
User extras to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.

--cache-dir="/home/username/.kube/cache"
Default cache directory

--client-certificate=""
Path to a client certificate file for TLS

--client-key=""
Path to a client key file for TLS

--cluster=""
The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

--context=""
The name of the kubeconfig context to use

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

--kubeconfig=""
use a particular kubeconfig file

--kuberc=""
Path to the kuberc file to use for preferences. This can be disabled by exporting KUBECTL_KUBERC=false feature gate or turning off the feature KUBERC=off.

--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|trace)

--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.

--token=""
Bearer token for authentication to the API server

--user=""
The name of the kubeconfig user to use

--username=""
Username for basic authentication to the API server

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

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

Examples

  # Set only the server field on the e2e cluster entry without touching other values
  kubectl config set-cluster e2e --server=https://1.2.3.4
  # Embed certificate authority data for the e2e cluster entry
  kubectl config set-cluster e2e --embed-certs --certificate-authority=~/.kube/e2e/kubernetes.ca.crt
  # Disable cert checking for the e2e cluster entry
  kubectl config set-cluster e2e --insecure-skip-tls-verify=true
  # Set the custom TLS server name to use for validation for the e2e cluster entry
  kubectl config set-cluster e2e --tls-server-name=my-cluster-name
  # Set the proxy URL for the e2e cluster entry
  kubectl config set-cluster e2e --proxy-url=https://1.2.3.4

Releases

3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 11–12
  2. Arch

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