kubectl-auth-can-i - Man Page

kubectl auth can-i [Options]

Check whether an action is allowed.

VERB is a logical Kubernetes API verb like 'get', 'list', 'watch', 'delete', etc. TYPE is a Kubernetes resource. Shortcuts and groups will be resolved. NONRESOURCEURL is a partial URL that starts with "/". NAME is the name of a particular Kubernetes resource. This command pairs nicely with impersonation. See --as global flag.

-A, --all-namespaces=false If true, check the specified action in all namespaces.

--list=false If true, prints all allowed actions.

--no-headers=false If true, prints allowed actions without headers

-q, --quiet=false If true, suppress output and just return the exit code.

--subresource="" SubResource such as pod/log or deployment/scale

--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.

--azure-container-registry-config="" Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information.

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

--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

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

--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.

--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)

--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.

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

--tls-server-name="" Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used

--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

  # Check to see if I can create pods in any namespace
  kubectl auth can-i create pods --all-namespaces
  
  # Check to see if I can list deployments in my current namespace
  kubectl auth can-i list deployments.apps
  
  # Check to see if service account "foo" of namespace "dev" can list pods
  # in the namespace "prod".
  # You must be allowed to use impersonation for the global option "--as".
  kubectl auth can-i list pods --as=system:serviceaccount:dev:foo -n prod
  
  # Check to see if I can do everything in my current namespace ("*" means all)
  kubectl auth can-i '*' '*'
  
  # Check to see if I can get the job named "bar" in namespace "foo"
  kubectl auth can-i list jobs.batch/bar -n foo
  
  # Check to see if I can read pod logs
  kubectl auth can-i get pods --subresource=log
  
  # Check to see if I can access the URL /logs/
  kubectl auth can-i get /logs/
  
  # List all allowed actions in namespace "foo"
  kubectl auth can-i --list --namespace=foo

kubectl-auth(1),

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!

kubectl-auth(1).