diff --git a/docs/installation/installation.md b/docs/installation/installation.md
index 1f1d4d13c..fa87a0e2a 100644
--- a/docs/installation/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation/installation.md
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Step 2:  Create karmada kubeconfig secret
 Step 3: Create karmada agent
 (In member kubernetes)~#  MEMBER_CLUSTER_NAME="demo"
 (In member kubernetes)~#  sed -i "s/{member_cluster_name}/${MEMBER_CLUSTER_NAME}/g" karmada-agent.yaml
-(In member kubernetes)~#  kubectl create -f karmada-agent.yaml
+(In member kubernetes)~#  kubectl apply -f karmada-agent.yaml
                                                                                                                                                                              
 Step 4: Show members of karmada                                                                                                                                              
 (In karmada)~# kubectl  --kubeconfig /etc/karmada/karmada-apiserver.config get clusters
diff --git a/pkg/karmadactl/cmdinit/utils/examples.go b/pkg/karmadactl/cmdinit/utils/examples.go
index 13e80a216..3135301de 100644
--- a/pkg/karmadactl/cmdinit/utils/examples.go
+++ b/pkg/karmadactl/cmdinit/utils/examples.go
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Step 2:  Create karmada kubeconfig secret
 Step 3: Create karmada agent
 (In member kubernetes)~#  MEMBER_CLUSTER_NAME="demo"
 (In member kubernetes)~#  sed -i "s/{member_cluster_name}/${MEMBER_CLUSTER_NAME}/g" karmada-agent.yaml
-(In member kubernetes)~#  kubectl create -f karmada-agent.yaml
+(In member kubernetes)~#  kubectl apply -f karmada-agent.yaml
                                                                                                                                                                              
 Step 4: Show members of karmada                                                                                                                                              
 (In karmada)~# kubectl  --kubeconfig %s/karmada-apiserver.config get clusters