kops/docs/cli/kops_create.md

kops create

Create a resource by command line, filename or stdin.

Synopsis

Create a resource:

• cluster
• instancegroup
• secret

Create a cluster, instancegroup, keypair, or secret using command line parameters, YAML configuration specification files, or stdin. (Note: keypairs and secrets cannot be created from YAML config files yet).

kops create {-f FILENAME}... [flags]

Examples

  # Create a cluster from the configuration specification in a YAML file.
  kops create -f my-cluster.yaml
  
  # Create secret from secret spec file.
  kops create -f secret.yaml
  
  # Create an instancegroup based on the YAML passed into stdin.
  cat instancegroup.yaml | kops create -f -

Options

  -f, --filename strings   Filename to use to create the resource
  -h, --help               help for create

Options inherited from parent commands

      --config string   yaml config file (default is $HOME/.kops.yaml)
      --name string     Name of cluster. Overrides KOPS_CLUSTER_NAME environment variable
      --state string    Location of state storage (kops 'config' file). Overrides KOPS_STATE_STORE environment variable
  -v, --v Level         number for the log level verbosity

SEE ALSO

• kops - kOps is Kubernetes Operations.
• kops create cluster - Create a Kubernetes cluster.
• kops create instancegroup - Create an instancegroup.
• kops create keypair - Add a CA certificate and private key to a keyset.
• kops create secret - Create a secret.
• kops create sshpublickey - Create an SSH public key.