KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

Eric Paris Jan 2015

NAME
kube-controller-manager -

SYNOPSIS
kube-controller-manager [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
The Kubernetes controller manager is a daemon that embeds the core control loops shipped with Kubernetes. In applications of robotics and automation, a control loop is a non-terminating loop that regulates the state of the system. In Kubernetes, a controller is a control loop that watches the shared state of the cluster through the apiserver and makes changes attempting to move the current state towards the desired state. Examples of controllers that ship with Kubernetes today are the replication controller, endpoints controller, namespace controller, and serviceaccounts controller.

OPTIONS
--allocate-node-cidrs=false
    Should CIDRs for Pods be allocated and set on the cloud provider. Requires --cluster-cidr.

--allow-metric-labels=[]
    The map from metric-label to value allow-list of this label. The key's format is ,. The value's format is ,...e.g. metric1,label1='v1,v2,v3', metric1,label2='v1,v2,v3' metric2,label1='v1,v2,v3'.

--allow-metric-labels-manifest=""
    The path to the manifest file that contains the allow-list mapping. The format of the file is the same as the flag --allow-metric-labels, i.e., allowListMapping:
  "metric1,label1": "value11,value12"
  "metric2,label2": "" Note that the flag --allow-metric-labels will override the manifest file.

--allow-untagged-cloud=false
    Allow the cluster to run without the cluster-id on cloud instances. This is a legacy mode of operation and a cluster-id will be required in the future.

--attach-detach-reconcile-sync-period=1m0s
    The reconciler sync wait time between volume attach detach. This duration must be larger than one second, and increasing this value from the default may allow for volumes to be mismatched with pods.

--authentication-kubeconfig=""
    kubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to create tokenreviews.authentication.k8s.io. This is optional. If empty, all token requests are considered to be anonymous and no client CA is looked up in the cluster.

--authentication-skip-lookup=false
    If false, the authentication-kubeconfig will be used to lookup missing authentication configuration from the cluster.

--authentication-token-webhook-cache-ttl=10s
    The duration to cache responses from the webhook token authenticator.

--authentication-tolerate-lookup-failure=false
    If true, failures to look up missing authentication configuration from the cluster are not considered fatal. Note that this can result in authentication that treats all requests as anonymous.

--authorization-always-allow-paths=[/healthz,/readyz,/livez]
    A list of HTTP paths to skip during authorization, i.e. these are authorized without contacting the 'core' kubernetes server.

--authorization-kubeconfig=""
    kubeconfig file pointing at the 'core' kubernetes server with enough rights to create subjectaccessreviews.authorization.k8s.io. This is optional. If empty, all requests not skipped by authorization are forbidden.

--authorization-webhook-cache-authorized-ttl=10s
    The duration to cache 'authorized' responses from the webhook authorizer.

--authorization-webhook-cache-unauthorized-ttl=10s
    The duration to cache 'unauthorized' responses from the webhook authorizer.

--bind-address=0.0.0.0
    The IP address on which to listen for the --secure-port port. The associated interface(s) must be reachable by the rest of the cluster, and by CLI/web clients. If blank or an unspecified address (0.0.0.0 or ::), all interfaces and IP address families will be used.

--cert-dir=""
    The directory where the TLS certs are located. If --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file are provided, this flag will be ignored.

--cidr-allocator-type="RangeAllocator"
    Type of CIDR allocator to use

--client-ca-file=""
    If set, any request presenting a client certificate signed by one of the authorities in the client-ca-file is authenticated with an identity corresponding to the CommonName of the client certificate.

--cloud-config=""
    The path to the cloud provider configuration file. Empty string for no configuration file.

--cloud-provider=""
    The provider for cloud services. Empty string for no provider.

--cluster-cidr=""
    CIDR Range for Pods in cluster. Only used when --allocate-node-cidrs=true; if false, this option will be ignored.

--cluster-name="kubernetes"
    The instance prefix for the cluster.

--cluster-signing-cert-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded X509 CA certificate used to issue cluster-scoped certificates. If specified, no more specific --cluster-signing-* flag may be specified.

--cluster-signing-duration=8760h0m0s
    The max length of duration signed certificates will be given. Individual CSRs may request shorter certs by setting spec.expirationSeconds.

--cluster-signing-key-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded RSA or ECDSA private key used to sign cluster-scoped certificates. If specified, no more specific --cluster-signing-* flag may be specified.

--cluster-signing-kube-apiserver-client-cert-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded X509 CA certificate used to issue certificates for the kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--cluster-signing-kube-apiserver-client-key-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded RSA or ECDSA private key used to sign certificates for the kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--cluster-signing-kubelet-client-cert-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded X509 CA certificate used to issue certificates for the kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client-kubelet signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--cluster-signing-kubelet-client-key-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded RSA or ECDSA private key used to sign certificates for the kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client-kubelet signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--cluster-signing-kubelet-serving-cert-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded X509 CA certificate used to issue certificates for the kubernetes.io/kubelet-serving signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--cluster-signing-kubelet-serving-key-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded RSA or ECDSA private key used to sign certificates for the kubernetes.io/kubelet-serving signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--cluster-signing-legacy-unknown-cert-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded X509 CA certificate used to issue certificates for the kubernetes.io/legacy-unknown signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--cluster-signing-legacy-unknown-key-file=""
    Filename containing a PEM-encoded RSA or ECDSA private key used to sign certificates for the kubernetes.io/legacy-unknown signer. If specified, --cluster-signing-{cert,key}-file must not be set.

--concurrent-cron-job-syncs=5
    The number of cron job objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive jobs, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-daemonset-syncs=2
    The number of daemonset objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive daemonsets, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-deployment-syncs=5
    The number of deployment objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive deployments, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-device-taint-eviction-syncs=8
    The number of operations (evicting pods, updating DeviceTaintRule status) allowed to run concurrently. Greater number = more responsive, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-disruption-syncs=1
    The number of PDB objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive PDB updates, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-endpoint-syncs=5
    The number of endpoint syncing operations that will be done concurrently. Larger number = faster endpoint updating, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-ephemeralvolume-syncs=5
    The number of ephemeral volume syncing operations that will be done concurrently. Larger number = faster ephemeral volume updating, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-gc-syncs=20
    The number of garbage collector workers that are allowed to sync concurrently.

--concurrent-horizontal-pod-autoscaler-syncs=5
    The number of horizontal pod autoscaler objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive horizontal pod autoscaler objects processing, but more CPU (and network) load.

--concurrent-job-syncs=5
    The number of job objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive jobs, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-namespace-syncs=10
    The number of namespace objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive namespace termination, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-replicaset-syncs=5
    The number of replica sets that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive replica management, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-resource-quota-syncs=5
    The number of resource quotas that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive quota management, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-resourceclaim-syncs=50
    The number of operations (creating or deleting ResourceClaims) allowed to run concurrently. Larger number = more responsive, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-service-endpoint-syncs=5
    The number of service endpoint syncing operations that will be done concurrently. Larger number = faster endpoint slice updating, but more CPU (and network) load. Defaults to 5.

--concurrent-serviceaccount-token-syncs=5
    The number of service account token objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive token generation, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-statefulset-syncs=5
    The number of statefulset objects that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive statefulsets, but more CPU (and network) load

--concurrent-ttl-after-finished-syncs=5
    The number of ttl-after-finished-controller workers that are allowed to sync concurrently.

--concurrent-validating-admission-policy-status-syncs=5
    The number of ValidatingAdmissionPolicyStatusController workers that are allowed to sync concurrently.

--concurrent_rc_syncs=5
    The number of replication controllers that are allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive replica management, but more CPU (and network) load

--configure-cloud-routes=true
    Should CIDRs allocated by allocate-node-cidrs be configured on the cloud provider.

--contention-profiling=false
    Enable block profiling, if profiling is enabled

--controller-shutdown-timeout=10s
    Time to wait for the controllers to shut down before terminating the executable

--controller-start-interval=0s
    Interval between starting controller managers.

--controllers=[]
    A list of controllers to enable. '' enables all on-by-default controllers, 'foo' enables the controller named 'foo', '-foo' disables the controller named 'foo'. All controllers: bootstrap-signer-controller, certificatesigningrequest-approving-controller, certificatesigningrequest-cleaner-controller, certificatesigningrequest-signing-controller, clusterrole-aggregation-controller, cronjob-controller, daemonset-controller, deployment-controller, device-taint-eviction-controller, disruption-controller, endpoints-controller, endpointslice-controller, endpointslice-mirroring-controller, ephemeral-volume-controller, garbage-collector-controller, horizontal-pod-autoscaler-controller, job-controller, kube-apiserver-serving-clustertrustbundle-publisher-controller, legacy-serviceaccount-token-cleaner-controller, namespace-controller, node-ipam-controller, node-lifecycle-controller, persistentvolume-attach-detach-controller, persistentvolume-binder-controller, persistentvolume-expander-controller, persistentvolume-protection-controller, persistentvolumeclaim-protection-controller, pod-garbage-collector-controller, podcertificaterequest-cleaner-controller, podgroup-protection-controller, replicaset-controller, replicationcontroller-controller, resourceclaim-controller, resourcepoolstatusrequest-controller, resourcequota-controller, root-ca-certificate-publisher-controller, selinux-warning-controller, service-cidr-controller, serviceaccount-controller, serviceaccount-token-controller, statefulset-controller, storage-version-migrator-controller, storageversion-garbage-collector-controller, taint-eviction-controller, token-cleaner-controller, ttl-after-finished-controller, ttl-controller, validatingadmissionpolicy-status-controller, volumeattributesclass-protection-controller Disabled-by-default controllers: bootstrap-signer-controller, selinux-warning-controller, token-cleaner-controller

--disable-attach-detach-reconcile-sync=false
    Disable volume attach detach reconciler sync. Disabling this may cause volumes to be mismatched with pods. Use wisely.

--disable-force-detach-on-timeout=false
    Prevent force detaching volumes based on maximum unmount time and node status. If this flag is set to true, the non-graceful node shutdown feature must be used to recover from node failure. See https://k8s.io/docs/storage-disable-force-detach-on-timeout/.

--disable-http2-serving=false
    If true, HTTP2 serving will be disabled [default=false]

--disabled-metrics=[]
    This flag provides an escape hatch for misbehaving metrics. You must provide the fully qualified metric name in order to disable it. Disclaimer: disabling metrics is higher in precedence than showing hidden metrics.

--emulated-version=[]
    The versions different components emulate their capabilities (APIs, features, ...) of. If set, the component will emulate the behavior of this version instead of the underlying binary version. Version format could only be major.minor, for example: '--emulated-version=wardle=1.2,kube=1.31'. Options are: kube=1.34..1.37(default:1.37) If the component is not specified, defaults to "kube"

--enable-dynamic-provisioning=true
    Enable dynamic provisioning for environments that support it.

--enable-garbage-collector=true
    Enables the generic garbage collector. MUST be synced with the corresponding flag of the kube-apiserver.

--enable-hostpath-provisioner=false
    Enable HostPath PV provisioning when running without a cloud provider. This allows testing and development of provisioning features. HostPath provisioning is not supported in any way, won't work in a multi-node cluster, and should not be used for anything other than testing or development.

--enable-leader-migration=false
    Whether to enable controller leader migration.

--endpoint-updates-batch-period=0s
    The length of endpoint updates batching period. Processing of pod changes will be delayed by this duration to join them with potential upcoming updates and reduce the overall number of endpoints updates. Larger number = higher endpoint programming latency, but lower number of endpoints revision generated

--endpointslice-updates-batch-period=0s
    The length of endpoint slice updates batching period. Processing of pod changes will be delayed by this duration to join them with potential upcoming updates and reduce the overall number of endpoints updates. Larger number = higher endpoint programming latency, but lower number of endpoints revision generated

--external-cloud-volume-plugin=""
    The plugin to use when cloud provider is set to external. Can be empty, should only be set when cloud-provider is external. Currently used to allow node-ipam-controller, persistentvolume-binder-controller, persistentvolume-expander-controller and attach-detach-controller to work for in tree cloud providers.

--feature-gates=
    Comma-separated list of component:key=value pairs that describe feature gates for alpha/experimental features of different components. If the component is not specified, defaults to "kube". This flag can be repeatedly invoked. For example: --feature-gates 'wardle:featureA=true,wardle:featureB=false' --feature-gates 'kube:featureC=true'Options are: kube:APIResponseCompression=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:APIServerIdentity=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:APIServerWebhookAuthenticationToken=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:APIServingWithRoutine=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:AllAlpha=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:AllBeta=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:AllowParsingUserUIDFromCertAuth=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:AllowUnsafeMalformedObjectDeletion=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:AtomicFIFO=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:AtomicWriteVolumeUserFields=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:AuthorizePodWebsocketUpgradeCreatePermission=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:CBORServingAndStorage=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:CPUManagerPolicyAlphaOptions=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:CPUManagerPolicyBetaOptions=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:CRDObservedGenerationTracking=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:CRIListStreaming=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:CSIVolumeHealth=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ClearingNominatedNodeNameAfterBinding=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ClientsAllowCARotation=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ClientsAllowCBOR=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ClientsAllowTLSCacheGC=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ClientsPreferCBOR=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:CloudControllerManagerWatchBasedRoutesReconciliation=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:CloudControllerManagerWebhook=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ComponentFlagz=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ComponentStatusz=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:CompositePodGroup=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ConcurrentWatchObjectDecode=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ConsistentListFromCacheSkipTimeoutFallback=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ConstrainedImpersonation=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ContainerCheckpoint=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ContainerRestartRules=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ContainerStopSignals=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ContextualLogging=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ControllerManagerReleaseLeaderElectionLockOnExit=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:CoordinatedLeaderElection=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:CrossNamespaceVolumeDataSource=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRAConsumableCapacity=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:DRADerivedAttributes=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRADeviceBindingConditions=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:DRADeviceCompatibilityGroups=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRAFractionalCapacityRange=true|false (BETA - default=false), or DRAFractionalCapacityRange=true|false (BETA - default=true) if --min-compatibility-version>=1.37 kube:DRAListTypeAttributes=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRANodeAllocatableResources=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRAOptionalNodeOperations=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRAPartitionableDevices=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:DRAPartitionableDevicesType=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRAResourceClaimGranularStatusAuthorization=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:DRAResourcePoolStatus=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DRASchedulerFilterTimeout=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:DRAWorkloadResourceClaims=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:DeclarativeValidationBeta=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:DefaultPodSysctls=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:DeploymentReplicaSetTerminatingReplicas=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:DetectCacheInconsistency=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:EmptyDirVolumeMode=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:EnvFiles=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:EtcdRangeStream=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:EventedPLEG=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:EvictionRequestAPI=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ExcludeAdmissionWebhookVirtualResources=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ExtendWebSocketsToKubelet=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:GRPCContainerProbeTLS=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:GenericWorkload=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:GracefulNodeShutdown=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:GracefulNodeShutdownBasedOnPodPriority=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:H2CContainerProbe=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:HPAGeneration=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:HPAOptimizedSelectorStore=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:HPAScaleToZero=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:HugepageAwareEviction=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ImageVolumeWithDigest=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:InOrderInformersBatchProcess=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:InPlacePodLevelResourcesVerticalScaling=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:InPlacePodVerticalScalingExclusiveCPUs=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:InPlacePodVerticalScalingExclusiveMemory=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:InPlacePodVerticalScalingMemoryBackedVolumes=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:InPlacePodVerticalScalingSchedulerPreemption=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:InterPodAffinityHostnameFastPath=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:KubeProxyNFTablesLocalhostNodePorts=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:KubeletAllocatedPodsEndpoint=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:KubeletCrashLoopBackOffMax=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:KubeletEnsureSecretPulledImages=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:KubeletInUserNamespace=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:KubeletSeparateDiskGC=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:KubeletServiceAccountTokenForCredentialProviders=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ListFromCacheSnapshot=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:LocalStorageCapacityIsolationFSQuotaMonitoring=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:LoggingAlphaOptions=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:LoggingBetaOptions=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ManifestBasedAdmissionControlConfig=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:MatchLabelKeysInPodTopologySpread=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:MatchLabelKeysInPodTopologySpreadSelectorMerge=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:MaxUnavailableStatefulSet=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:MemoryQoS=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:MutablePVNodeAffinity=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:MutablePodResourcesForSuspendedJobs=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:MutableSchedulingDirectivesForSuspendedJobs=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:NFTablesNetlink=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:NativeHistograms=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:NodeControllerLeaseCircuitBreaker=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:NodeLifecycleConditions=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:NominatedNodeNameForExpectation=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:OpenAPIEnums=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:OpportunisticBatching=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PersistentVolumeClaimUnusedSinceTime=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PodAndContainerStatsFromCRI=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:PodDeletionCost=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PodGroupPreemptionPolicy=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:PodLevelResourceManagers=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:PodLevelResources=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PodLevelResourcesFixDefaulting=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PodLevelResourcesFixKubeletQOSClass=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PodLogsQuerySplitStreams=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:PodTopologyLabelsAdmission=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PodsAPI=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:PortForwardWebsockets=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:QOSReserved=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ReduceDefaultCrashLoopBackOffDecay=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ReloadKubeletClientCAFile=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ReloadKubeletServerCertificateFile=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:RemoteRequestHeaderUID=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ResourceHealthStatus=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ResourceHealthStatusMessage=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:RestartAllContainersOnContainerExits=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:RuntimeClassInImageCriApi=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:SchedulerAsyncAPICalls=true|false (BETA - default=false) kube:SchedulerAsyncPreemption=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:SchedulerPopFromBackoffQ=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:SchedulerPreQueueingHints=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:ServiceAccountNodeAudienceRestriction=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:ShardedListAndWatch=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:SizeBasedListCostEstimate=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StaleControllerConsistencyDaemonSet=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StaleControllerConsistencyHPA=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StaleControllerConsistencyJob=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StaleControllerConsistencyReplicaSet=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StaleControllerConsistencyStatefulSet=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StatefulSetRecreateStrategy=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:StatefulSetSemanticRevisionComparison=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StorageCapacityScoring=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StorageVersionAPI=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:StorageVersionHash=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StrictIPCIDRValidation=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StructuredAuthenticationConfigurationEgressSelector=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:StructuredAuthenticationConfigurationJWKSMetrics=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:TaintTolerationComparisonOperators=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:TokenRequestServiceAccountUIDValidation=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:TopologyAwareWorkloadScheduling=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:TopologyManagerPolicyAlphaOptions=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:TopologyManagerPolicyBetaOptions=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:TranslateStreamCloseWebsocketRequests=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:UnauthenticatedHTTP2DOSMitigation=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:UnlockWhileProcessingFIFO=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:UserNamespacesHostNetworkSupport=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:VolumeBindMountOptions=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:VolumeLimitScaling=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:WatchList=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:WatchListClient=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:WatchListCompression=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:WebhookRoundTripLoadBalancing=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:WindowsCPUAndMemoryAffinity=true|false (ALPHA - default=false) kube:WindowsGracefulNodeShutdown=true|false (BETA - default=true) kube:WorkloadWithJob=true|false (ALPHA - default=false)

--flex-volume-plugin-dir="/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec/"
    Full path of the directory in which the flex volume plugin should search for additional third party volume plugins.

-h, --help=false
    help for kube-controller-manager

--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-cpu-initialization-period=5m0s
    The period after pod start when CPU samples might be skipped.

--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-downscale-stabilization=5m0s
    The period for which autoscaler will look backwards and not scale down below any recommendation it made during that period.

--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-initial-readiness-delay=30s
    The period after pod start during which readiness changes will be treated as initial readiness.

--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-sync-period=15s
    The period for syncing the number of pods in horizontal pod autoscaler.

--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-tolerance=0.1
    The minimum change (from 1.0) in the desired-to-actual metrics ratio for the horizontal pod autoscaler to consider scaling.

--http2-max-streams-per-connection=0
    The limit that the server gives to clients for the maximum number of streams in an HTTP/2 connection. Zero means to use golang's default.

--kube-api-burst=30
    Burst to use while talking with kubernetes apiserver.

--kube-api-content-type="application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf"
    Content type of requests sent to apiserver.

--kube-api-qps=20
    QPS to use while talking with kubernetes apiserver.

--kubeconfig=""
    Path to kubeconfig file with authorization and master location information (the master location can be overridden by the master flag).

--large-cluster-size-threshold=50
    Number of nodes from which node-lifecycle-controller treats the cluster as large for the eviction logic purposes. --secondary-node-eviction-rate is implicitly overridden to 0 for clusters this size or smaller. Notice: If nodes reside in multiple zones, this threshold will be considered as zone node size threshold for each zone to determine node eviction rate independently.

--leader-elect=true
    Start a leader election client and gain leadership before executing the main loop. Enable this when running replicated components for high availability.

--leader-elect-lease-duration=15s
    The duration that non-leader candidates will wait after observing a leadership renewal until attempting to acquire leadership of a led but unrenewed leader slot. This is effectively the maximum duration that a leader can be stopped before it is replaced by another candidate. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled.

--leader-elect-renew-deadline=10s
    The interval between attempts by the acting master to renew a leadership slot before it stops leading. This must be less than the lease duration. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled.

--leader-elect-resource-lock="leases"
    The type of resource object that is used for locking during leader election. Supported options are 'leases'.

--leader-elect-resource-name="kube-controller-manager"
    The name of resource object that is used for locking during leader election.

--leader-elect-resource-namespace="kube-system"
    The namespace of resource object that is used for locking during leader election.

--leader-elect-retry-period=2s
    The duration the clients should wait between attempting acquisition and renewal of a leadership. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled.

--leader-migration-config=""
    Path to the config file for controller leader migration, or empty to use the value that reflects default configuration of the controller manager. The config file should be of type LeaderMigrationConfiguration, group controllermanager.config.k8s.io, version v1alpha1.

--legacy-service-account-token-clean-up-period=8760h0m0s
    The period of time since the last usage of an legacy service account token before it can be deleted.

--log-flush-frequency=5s
    Maximum number of seconds between log flushes

--log-text-info-buffer-size=0
    [Alpha] In text format with split output streams, the info messages can be buffered for a while to increase performance. The default value of zero bytes disables buffering. The size can be specified as number of bytes (512), multiples of 1000 (1K), multiples of 1024 (2Ki), or powers of those (3M, 4G, 5Mi, 6Gi). Enable the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate to use this.

--log-text-split-stream=false
    [Alpha] In text format, write error messages to stderr and info messages to stdout. The default is to write a single stream to stdout. Enable the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate to use this.

--logging-format="text"
    Sets the log format. Permitted formats: "text".

--master=""
    The address of the Kubernetes API server (overrides any value in kubeconfig).

--max-endpoints-per-slice=100
    The maximum number of endpoints that will be added to an EndpointSlice. More endpoints per slice will result in less endpoint slices, but larger resources. Defaults to 100.

--min-compatibility-version=[]
    The min version of control plane components the server should be compatible with. Must be less or equal to the emulated-version. Version format could only be major.minor, for example: '--min-compatibility-version=wardle=1.2,kube=1.31'. Options are: kube=1.34..1.37(default:1.36) If the component is not specified, defaults to "kube"

--min-resync-period=12h0m0s
    The resync period in reflectors will be random between MinResyncPeriod and 2*MinResyncPeriod.

--mirroring-concurrent-service-endpoint-syncs=5
    The number of service endpoint syncing operations that will be done concurrently by the endpointslice-mirroring-controller. Larger number = faster endpoint slice updating, but more CPU (and network) load. Defaults to 5.

--mirroring-endpointslice-updates-batch-period=0s
    The length of EndpointSlice updates batching period for endpointslice-mirroring-controller. Processing of EndpointSlice changes will be delayed by this duration to join them with potential upcoming updates and reduce the overall number of EndpointSlice updates. Larger number = higher endpoint programming latency, but lower number of endpoints revision generated

--mirroring-max-endpoints-per-subset=1000
    The maximum number of endpoints that will be added to an EndpointSlice by the endpointslice-mirroring-controller. More endpoints per slice will result in less endpoint slices, but larger resources. Defaults to 100.

--namespace-sync-period=5m0s
    The period for syncing namespace life-cycle updates

--node-cidr-mask-size=0
    Mask size for node cidr in cluster. Default is 24 for IPv4 and 64 for IPv6.

--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv4=0
    Mask size for IPv4 node cidr in dual-stack cluster. Default is 24.

--node-cidr-mask-size-ipv6=0
    Mask size for IPv6 node cidr in dual-stack cluster. Default is 64.

--node-eviction-rate=0.1
    Number of nodes per second on which pods are deleted in case of node failure when a zone is healthy (see --unhealthy-zone-threshold for definition of healthy/unhealthy). Zone refers to entire cluster in non-multizone clusters.

--node-monitor-grace-period=50s
    Amount of time which we allow running Node to be unresponsive before marking it unhealthy. Must be N times more than kubelet's nodeStatusUpdateFrequency, where N means number of retries allowed for kubelet to post node status. This value should also be greater than the sum of HTTP2_PING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS and HTTP2_READ_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS

--node-monitor-period=5s
    The period for syncing NodeStatus in NodeLifecycleController.

--node-startup-grace-period=1m0s
    Amount of time which we allow starting Node to be unresponsive before marking it unhealthy.

--node-sync-period=0s
    This flag is deprecated and will be removed in future releases. See node-monitor-period for Node health checking or route-reconciliation-period for cloud provider's route configuration settings.

--permit-address-sharing=false
    If true, SO_REUSEADDR will be used when binding the port. This allows binding to wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, and it avoids waiting for the kernel to release sockets in TIME_WAIT state. [default=false]

--permit-port-sharing=false
    If true, SO_REUSEPORT will be used when binding the port, which allows more than one instance to bind on the same address and port. [default=false]

--profiling=true
    Enable profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/

--pv-recycler-increment-timeout-nfs=30
    the increment of time added per Gi to ActiveDeadlineSeconds for an NFS scrubber pod

--pv-recycler-minimum-timeout-hostpath=60
    The minimum ActiveDeadlineSeconds to use for a HostPath Recycler pod. This is for development and testing only and will not work in a multi-node cluster.

--pv-recycler-minimum-timeout-nfs=300
    The minimum ActiveDeadlineSeconds to use for an NFS Recycler pod

--pv-recycler-pod-template-filepath-hostpath=""
    The file path to a pod definition used as a template for HostPath persistent volume recycling. This is for development and testing only and will not work in a multi-node cluster.

--pv-recycler-pod-template-filepath-nfs=""
    The file path to a pod definition used as a template for NFS persistent volume recycling

--pv-recycler-timeout-increment-hostpath=30
    the increment of time added per Gi to ActiveDeadlineSeconds for a HostPath scrubber pod. This is for development and testing only and will not work in a multi-node cluster.

--pvclaimbinder-sync-period=15s
    The period for syncing persistent volumes and persistent volume claims

--requestheader-allowed-names=[]
    List of client certificate common names to allow to provide usernames in headers specified by --requestheader-username-headers. If empty, any client certificate validated by the authorities in --requestheader-client-ca-file is allowed.

--requestheader-client-ca-file=""
    Root certificate bundle to use to verify client certificates on incoming requests before trusting usernames in headers specified by --requestheader-username-headers. WARNING: generally do not depend on authorization being already done for incoming requests.

--requestheader-extra-headers-prefix=[x-remote-extra-]
    List of request header prefixes to inspect. X-Remote-Extra- is suggested.

--requestheader-group-headers=[x-remote-group]
    List of request headers to inspect for groups. X-Remote-Group is suggested.

--requestheader-uid-headers=[]
    List of request headers to inspect for UIDs. X-Remote-Uid is suggested. Requires the RemoteRequestHeaderUID feature to be enabled.

--requestheader-username-headers=[x-remote-user]
    List of request headers to inspect for usernames. X-Remote-User is common.

--resource-quota-sync-period=5m0s
    The period for syncing quota usage status in the system

--root-ca-file=""
    If set, this root certificate authority will be included in service account's token secret. This must be a valid PEM-encoded CA bundle.

--route-reconciliation-period=10s
    The period for reconciling routes created for Nodes by cloud provider.

--secondary-node-eviction-rate=0.01
    Number of nodes per second on which pods are deleted in case of node failure when a zone is unhealthy (see --unhealthy-zone-threshold for definition of healthy/unhealthy). Zone refers to entire cluster in non-multizone clusters. This value is implicitly overridden to 0 if the cluster size is smaller than --large-cluster-size-threshold.

--secure-port=10257
    The port on which to serve HTTPS with authentication and authorization. If 0, don't serve HTTPS at all.

--service-account-private-key-file=""
    Enables legacy secret-based tokens when set. Filename containing a PEM-encoded private RSA or ECDSA key used to sign service account tokens.

--service-cluster-ip-range=""
    CIDR Range for Services in cluster. Only used when --allocate-node-cidrs=true; if false, this option will be ignored.

--show-hidden-metrics-for-version=""
    The previous version for which you want to show hidden metrics. Only the previous minor version is meaningful, other values will not be allowed. The format is ., e.g.: '1.16'. The purpose of this format is make sure you have the opportunity to notice if the next release hides additional metrics, rather than being surprised when they are permanently removed in the release after that.

--terminated-pod-gc-threshold=12500
    Number of terminated pods that can exist before the terminated pod garbage collector starts deleting terminated pods. If <= 0, the terminated pod garbage collector is disabled.

--tls-cert-file=""
    File containing the default x509 Certificate for HTTPS. (CA cert, if any, concatenated after server cert). If HTTPS serving is enabled, and --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file are not provided, a self-signed certificate and key are generated for the public address and saved to the directory specified by --cert-dir.

--tls-cipher-suites=[]
    Comma-separated list of cipher suites for the server. If omitted, the default Go cipher suites will be used. Preferred values: TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256. Insecure values: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA.

--tls-curve-preferences=[]
    Comma-separated list of numeric Go crypto/tls CurveID values, as the allowed key exchange mechanisms for the server. The supported values depend on the Go version used. See https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#CurveID for values supported for each Go version. The order of the list is ignored, and key exchange mechanisms are chosen by Go from this list using an internal preference order. If omitted, the default Go curves will be used.

--tls-min-version=""
    Minimum TLS version supported. Possible values: VersionTLS10, VersionTLS11, VersionTLS12, VersionTLS13

--tls-private-key-file=""
    File containing the default x509 private key matching --tls-cert-file.

--tls-sni-cert-key=[]
    A pair of x509 certificate and private key file paths, optionally suffixed with a list of domain patterns which are fully qualified domain names, possibly with prefixed wildcard segments. The domain patterns also allow IP addresses, but IPs should only be used if the apiserver has visibility to the IP address requested by a client. If no domain patterns are provided, the names of the certificate are extracted. Non-wildcard matches trump over wildcard matches, explicit domain patterns trump over extracted names. For multiple key/certificate pairs, use the --tls-sni-cert-key multiple times. Examples: "example.crt,example.key" or "foo.crt,foo.key:*.foo.com,foo.com".

--unhealthy-zone-threshold=0.55
    Fraction of Nodes in a zone which needs to be not Ready (minimum 3) for zone to be treated as unhealthy.

--use-service-account-credentials=false
    If true, use individual service account credentials for each controller.

-v, --v=0
    number for the log level verbosity

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

--vmodule=
    comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging (only works for text log format)

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!