kops/docs/advanced/experimental.md

Experimental features

Enable experimental features with:

export KOPS_FEATURE_FLAGS=

The following experimental features are currently available:

• +VSphereCloudProvider - Enable vSphere cloud provider.
• +EnableExternalDNS - Enable external-dns with default settings (ingress sources only).
• +EnableLaunchTemplates - Enable using launch templates rather than launchconfigurations (AWS only)
• +VPCSkipEnableDNSSupport - Enables creation of a VPC that does not need DNSSupport enabled.
• +SkipTerraformFormat - Do not terraform fmt the generated terraform files.
• +EnableExternalCloudController - Enables the use of cloud-controller-manager introduced in v1.7.
• +EnableSeparateConfigBase - Allow a config-base that is different from the state store.
• +SpecOverrideFlag - Allow setting spec values on kops create.
• +ExperimentalClusterDNS - Turns off validation of the kubelet cluster dns flag.
• +EnableNodeAuthorization - Enable support of Node Authorization, see node_authorization.md.
• +GoogleCloudBucketAcl - Enables setting the ACL on the state store bucket when using GCS
• +KeepLaunchConfigurations - Prevents garbage collection of old launch configurations
• +Spotinst - Enables the use of the Spotinst cloud provider
• +SpotinstOcean - Enables the use of Spotinst Ocean instance groups
• +SkipEtcdVersionCheck - Bypasses the check that etcd-manager is using a supported etcd version
• +TerraformJSON - Produce kubernetes.ts.json file instead of writing HCL v1 syntax. Can be consumed by terraform 0.12