kops/docs/commands.md

kops create cluster

kops create cluster <clustername> creates a cloud specification in the registry. It will not create the cloud resources unless you specify --yes, so that you have the chance to kops edit them. (You will likely kops update cluster after creating it).

kops update cluster

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 get clusters

kops get clusters lists all clusters in the registry.

kops delete cluster

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 version

kops version will print the version of the code you are running.