.TH "OPENSHIFT CLI" "1" " Openshift CLI User Manuals" "Openshift" "June 2016"  ""


.SH NAME
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openshift cli explain \- Documentation of resources


.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBopenshift cli explain\fP [OPTIONS]


.SH DESCRIPTION
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Documentation of resources.

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Possible resource types include: pods (po), services (svc), replicationcontrollers (rc), nodes (no), events (ev), componentstatuses (cs), limitranges (limits), persistentvolumes (pv), persistentvolumeclaims (pvc), resourcequotas (quota), namespaces (ns) or endpoints (ep).


.SH OPTIONS
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\fB\-\-include\-extended\-apis\fP=true
    If true, include definitions of new APIs via calls to the API server. [default true]

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\fB\-\-recursive\fP=false
    Print the fields of fields (Currently only 1 level deep)


.SH OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS
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\fB\-\-api\-version\fP=""
    DEPRECATED: The API version to use when talking to the server

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\fB\-\-as\fP=""
    Username to impersonate for the operation

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\fB\-\-certificate\-authority\fP=""
    Path to a cert. file for the certificate authority

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\fB\-\-client\-certificate\fP=""
    Path to a client certificate file for TLS

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\fB\-\-client\-key\fP=""
    Path to a client key file for TLS

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\fB\-\-cluster\fP=""
    The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

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\fB\-\-config\fP=""
    Path to the config file to use for CLI requests.

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\fB\-\-context\fP=""
    The name of the kubeconfig context to use

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\fB\-\-google\-json\-key\fP=""
    The Google Cloud Platform Service Account JSON Key to use for authentication.

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\fB\-\-insecure\-skip\-tls\-verify\fP=false
    If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

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\fB\-\-log\-flush\-frequency\fP=0
    Maximum number of seconds between log flushes

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\fB\-\-match\-server\-version\fP=false
    Require server version to match client version

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\fB\-n\fP, \fB\-\-namespace\fP=""
    If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

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\fB\-\-request\-timeout\fP="0"
    The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non\-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.

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\fB\-\-server\fP=""
    The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

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\fB\-\-token\fP=""
    Bearer token for authentication to the API server

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\fB\-\-user\fP=""
    The name of the kubeconfig user to use


.SH EXAMPLE
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.RS

.nf
  # Get the documentation of the resource and its fields
  openshift cli explain pods
  
  # Get the documentation of a specific field of a resource
  openshift cli explain pods.spec.containers

.fi
.RE


.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBopenshift\-cli(1)\fP,


.SH HISTORY
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June 2016, Ported from the Kubernetes man\-doc generator