This page lists the most common kops commands. Please refer to the kops cli reference for full documentation.
kops create registers a cluster. There are two ways of registering a cluster: using a cluster spec file or using cli arguments.
kops create -f <cluster spec> will register a cluster using a kops spec yaml file. After the cluster has been registered you need to run kops update cluster --yes to create the cloud resources.
kops create cluster <clustername> creates a cloud specification in the registry using cli arguments. In most cases, you will need to edit the cluster spec using kops edit before actually creating the cloud resources. If you are sure you do not need to do any moditication, you can add the --yes flag to immediately create the cluster including cloud resource.
kops update cluster <clustername> creates or updates the cloud resources to match the cluster spec.
It is recommended that you run it first in 'preview' mode with kops update cluster --name <name>, and then
when you are happy that it is making the right changes you runkops update cluster --name <name> --yes.
kops update cluster <clustername> updates a kubernetes cluster to match the cloud and kops specifications.
It is recommended that you run it first in 'preview' mode with kops rolling-update cluster --name <name>, and then
when you are happy that it is making the right changes you runkops rolling-update cluster --name <name> --yes.
kops get clusters lists all clusters in the registry.
kops delete cluster deletes the cloud resources (instances, DNS entries, volumes, ELBs, VPCs etc) for a particular
cluster. It also removes the cluster from the registry.
It is recommended that you run it first in 'preview' mode with kops delete cluster --name <name>, and then
when you are happy that it is deleting the right things you run kops delete cluster --name <name> --yes.
kops toolbox template lets you generate a kops spec using go templates. This is very handy if you want to consistently manage multiple clusters.
kops version will print the version of the code you are running.