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Documentation for specific releases can be found at releases.k8s.io.
Gracefully shut down a resource by name or filename.
Gracefully shut down a resource by name or filename.
Attempts to shut down and delete a resource that supports graceful termination. If the resource is scalable it will be scaled to 0 before deletion.
kubectl stop (-f FILENAME | RESOURCE (NAME | -l label | --all))
// Shut down foo.
$ kubectl stop replicationcontroller foo
// Stop pods and services with label name=myLabel.
$ kubectl stop pods,services -l name=myLabel
// Shut down the service defined in service.json
$ kubectl stop -f service.json
// Shut down all resources in the path/to/resources directory
$ kubectl stop -f path/to/resources
--all=false: [-all] to select all the specified resources.
-f, --filename=[]: Filename, directory, or URL to file of resource(s) to be stopped.
--grace-period=-1: Period of time in seconds given to the resource to terminate gracefully. Ignored if negative.
-h, --help=false: help for stop
--ignore-not-found=false: Treat "resource not found" as a successful stop.
-l, --selector="": Selector (label query) to filter on.
--timeout=0: The length of time to wait before giving up on a delete, zero means determine a timeout from the size of the object
--alsologtostderr=false: log to standard error as well as files
--api-version="": The API version to use when talking to the server
--certificate-authority="": Path to a cert. file for the certificate authority.
--client-certificate="": Path to a client key file for TLS.
--client-key="": Path to a client key file for TLS.
--cluster="": The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
--context="": The name of the kubeconfig context to use
--insecure-skip-tls-verify=false: If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure.
--kubeconfig="": Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
--log-backtrace-at=:0: when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
--log-dir=: If non-empty, write log files in this directory
--log-flush-frequency=5s: Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
--logtostderr=true: log to standard error instead of files
--match-server-version=false: Require server version to match client version
--namespace="": If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request.
--password="": Password for basic authentication to the API server.
-s, --server="": The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
--stderrthreshold=2: logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
--token="": Bearer token for authentication to the API server.
--user="": The name of the kubeconfig user to use
--username="": Username for basic authentication to the API server.
--v=0: log level for V logs
--validate=false: If true, use a schema to validate the input before sending it
--vmodule=: comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging
- kubectl - kubectl controls the Kubernetes cluster manager