KUBERNETES(1)

NAME

kubectl expose - Take a replication controller, service or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes Service

SYNOPSIS

kubectl expose [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

Take a replication controller, service, replica set or pod and expose it as a new Kubernetes service.

Looks up a replication controller, service, replica set or pod by name and uses the selector for that resource as the selector for a new service on the specified port. A replica set will be exposed as a service only if it's selector is convertible to a selector that service supports, i.e. when the replica set selector contains only the matchLabels component. Note that if no port is specified via --port and the exposed resource has multiple ports, all will be re-used by the new service. Also if no labels are specified, the new service will re-use the labels from the resource it exposes.

OPTIONS

--container-port=""
    Synonym for --target-port

--create-external-load-balancer=false
    If true, create an external load balancer for this service (trumped by --type). Implementation is cloud provider dependent. Default is 'false'.

--dry-run=false
    If true, only print the object that would be sent, without creating it.

--external-ip=""
    Additional external IP address (not managed by Kubernetes) to accept for the service. If this IP is routed to a node, the service can be accessed by this IP in addition to its generated service IP.

-f, --filename=[]
    Filename, directory, or URL to a file identifying the resource to expose a service

--generator="service/v2"
    The name of the API generator to use. There are 2 generators: 'service/v1' and 'service/v2'. The only difference between them is that service port in v1 is named 'default', while it is left unnamed in v2. Default is 'service/v2'.

-l, --labels=""
    Labels to apply to the service created by this call.

--load-balancer-ip=""
    IP to assign to to the Load Balancer. If empty, an ephemeral IP will be created and used (cloud-provider specific).

--name=""
    The name for the newly created object.

--no-headers=false
    When using the default output, don't print headers.

-o, --output=""
    Output format. One of: json|yaml|wide|name|go-template=...|go-template-file=...|jsonpath=...|jsonpath-file=... See golang template [ ⟨http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview⟩] and jsonpath template [ ⟨http://releases.k8s.io/HEAD/docs/user-guide/jsonpath.md⟩].

--output-version=""
    Output the formatted object with the given version (default api-version).

--overrides=""
    An inline JSON override for the generated object. If this is non-empty, it is used to override the generated object. Requires that the object supply a valid apiVersion field.

--port=""
    The port that the service should serve on. Copied from the resource being exposed, if unspecified

--protocol="TCP"
    The network protocol for the service to be created. Default is 'tcp'.

--record=false
    Record current kubectl command in the resource annotation.

--save-config=false
    If true, the configuration of current object will be saved in its annotation. This is useful when you want to perform kubectl apply on this object in the future.

--selector=""
    A label selector to use for this service. Only equality-based selector requirements are supported. If empty (the default) infer the selector from the replication controller or replica set.

--session-affinity=""
    If non-empty, set the session affinity for the service to this; legal values: 'None', 'ClientIP'

-a, --show-all=false
    When printing, show all resources (default hide terminated pods.)

--show-labels=false
    When printing, show all labels as the last column (default hide labels column)

--sort-by=""
    If non-empty, sort list types using this field specification. The field specification is expressed as a JSONPath expression (e.g. '{.metadata.name}'). The field in the API resource specified by this JSONPath expression must be an integer or a string.

--target-port=""
    Name or number for the port on the container that the service should direct traffic to. Optional.

--template=""
    Template string or path to template file to use when -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang templates [ ⟨http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview⟩].

--type=""
    Type for this service: ClusterIP, NodePort, or LoadBalancer. Default is 'ClusterIP'.

OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

--alsologtostderr=false
    log to standard error as well as files

--api-version=""
    The API version to use when talking to the server

--certificate-authority=""
    Path to a cert. file for the certificate authority.

--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

--insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
    If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure.

--kubeconfig=""
    Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.

--log-backtrace-at=:0
    when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace

--log-dir=""
    If non-empty, write log files in this directory

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

--logtostderr=true
    log to standard error instead of files

--match-server-version=false
    Require server version to match client version

--namespace=""
    If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request.

--password=""
    Password for basic authentication to the API server.

-s, --server=""
    The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

--stderrthreshold=2
    logs at or above this threshold go to stderr

--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.

--v=0
    log level for V logs

--vmodule=
    comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging

EXAMPLE

    # Create a service for a replicated nginx, which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000.
    kubectl expose rc nginx --port=80 --target-port=8000
    # Create a service for a replication controller identified by type and name specified in "nginx-controller.yaml", which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000.
    kubectl expose -f nginx-controller.yaml --port=80 --target-port=8000
    # Create a service for a pod valid-pod, which serves on port 444 with the name "frontend"
    kubectl expose pod valid-pod --port=444 --name=frontend
    # Create a second service based on the above service, exposing the container port 8443 as port 443 with the name "nginx-https"
    kubectl expose service nginx --port=443 --target-port=8443 --name=nginx-https
    # Create a service for a replicated streaming application on port 4100 balancing UDP traffic and named 'video-stream'.
    kubectl expose rc streamer --port=4100 --protocol=udp --name=video-stream
    # Create a service for a replicated nginx using replica set, which serves on port 80 and connects to the containers on port 8000.
    kubectl expose rs nginx --port=80 --target-port=8000

SEE ALSO

kubectl(1),

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!