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<p>The Istio operator.</p>
<table class="command-flags">
<thead>
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<th>Flags</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
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<td><code>--kubeconfig &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Paths to a kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--master &lt;--kubeconfig&gt;</code></td>
<td>(Deprecated: switch to --kubeconfig) The address of the Kubernetes API server. Overrides any value in kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="operator-server">operator server</h2>
<p>Starts the Istio operator server</p>
<pre class="language-bash"><code>operator server [flags]
</code></pre>
<table class="command-flags">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Flags</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>--base-chart-path &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The absolute path to a directory containing nested charts, e.g. /etc/istio-operator/helm.  This will be used as the base path for any IstioOperator instances specifying a relative ChartPath.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--ctrlz_address &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use &#39;*&#39; to indicate all addresses.  (default `localhost`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--ctrlz_port &lt;uint16&gt;</code></td>
<td>The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility  (default `9876`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--default-chart-path &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>A path relative to base-chart-path containing charts to be used when no ChartPath is specified by an IstioOperator resource, e.g. 1.1.0/istio  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--kubeconfig &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Paths to a kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_as_json</code></td>
<td>Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_caller &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, default, installer, patch, tpath, translator, util, validation]  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_output_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, installer, patch, tpath, translator, util, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:info`)</td>
</tr>
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<td><code>--log_rotate &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>The path for the optional rotating log file  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_age &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit)  (default `30`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_backups &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit)  (default `1000`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_rotate_max_size &lt;int&gt;</code></td>
<td>The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated  (default `104857600`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_stacktrace_level &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td>Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of &lt;scope&gt;:&lt;level&gt;,&lt;scope:level&gt;,... where scope can be one of [all, default, installer, patch, tpath, translator, util, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none]  (default `default:none`)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--log_target &lt;stringArray&gt;</code></td>
<td>The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr  (default `[stdout]`)</td>
</tr>
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<td><code>--master &lt;--kubeconfig&gt;</code></td>
<td>(Deprecated: switch to --kubeconfig) The address of the Kubernetes API server. Overrides any value in kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="operator-version">operator version</h2>
<p>Prints out build version information</p>
<pre class="language-bash"><code>operator version [flags]
</code></pre>
<table class="command-flags">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Flags</th>
<th>Shorthand</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>--kubeconfig &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>Paths to a kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--master &lt;--kubeconfig&gt;</code></td>
<td></td>
<td>(Deprecated: switch to --kubeconfig) The address of the Kubernetes API server. Overrides any value in kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--output &lt;string&gt;</code></td>
<td><code>-o</code></td>
<td>One of &#39;yaml&#39; or &#39;json&#39;.  (default ``)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>--short</code></td>
<td><code>-s</code></td>
<td>Use --short=false to generate full version information </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="metrics">Exported metrics</h2>
<table class="metrics">
<thead>
<tr><th>Metric Name</th><th>Type</th><th>Description</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td><code>istio_build</code></td><td><code>LastValue</code></td><td>Istio component build info</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>