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title: Kubectl plugin
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Install vela kubectl plugin can help you to ship applications more easily!

## Installation

See [advanced-install](../../platform-engineers/advanced-install)

## Usage

```shell
$ kubectl vela -h
A Highly Extensible Platform Engine based on Kubernetes and Open Application Model.

Usage:
  kubectl vela [flags]
  kubectl vela [command]

Available Commands:

    comp        Show components in capability registry
    dry-run     Dry Run an application, and output the K8s resources as
                result to stdout, only CUE template supported for now
    live-diff   Dry-run an application, and do diff on a specific app
                revison. The provided capability definitions will be used
                during Dry-run. If any capabilities used in the app are not
                found in the provided ones, it will try to find from
                cluster.
    show        Show the reference doc for a workload type or trait
    trait       Show traits in capability registry
    version     Prints out build version information

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for vela

Use "kubectl vela [command] --help" for more information about a command.
```