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flux bootstrap

flux bootstrap

Deploy Flux on a cluster the GitOps way.

Synopsis

The bootstrap sub-commands push the Flux manifests to a Git repository and deploy Flux on the cluster.

Options

      --author-email string                    author email for Git commits
      --author-name string                     author name for Git commits (default "Flux")
      --branch string                          Git branch (default "main")
      --ca-file string                         path to TLS CA file used for validating self-signed certificates
      --cluster-domain string                  internal cluster domain (default "cluster.local")
      --commit-message-appendix string         string to add to the commit messages, e.g. '[ci skip]'
      --components strings                     list of components, accepts comma-separated values (default [source-controller,kustomize-controller,helm-controller,notification-controller])
      --components-extra strings               list of components in addition to those supplied or defaulted, accepts values such as 'image-reflector-controller,image-automation-controller'
      --gpg-key-id string                      key id for selecting a particular key
      --gpg-key-ring string                    path to GPG key ring for signing commits
      --gpg-passphrase string                  passphrase for decrypting GPG private key
  -h, --help                                   help for bootstrap
      --image-pull-secret string               Kubernetes secret name used for pulling the controller images from a private registry
      --log-level logLevel                     log level, available options are: (debug, info, error) (default info)
      --network-policy                         setup Kubernetes network policies to deny ingress access to the Flux controllers from other namespaces (default true)
      --private-key-file string                path to a private key file used for authenticating to the Git SSH server
      --recurse-submodules                     when enabled, configures the GitRepository source to initialize and include Git submodules in the artifact it produces
      --registry string                        container registry where the Flux controller images are published (default "ghcr.io/fluxcd")
      --secret-name string                     name of the secret the sync credentials can be found in or stored to (default "flux-system")
      --ssh-ecdsa-curve ecdsaCurve             SSH ECDSA public key curve (p256, p384, p521) (default p384)
      --ssh-hostname string                    SSH hostname, to be used when the SSH host differs from the HTTPS one
      --ssh-key-algorithm publicKeyAlgorithm   SSH public key algorithm (rsa, ecdsa, ed25519) (default ecdsa)
      --ssh-rsa-bits rsaKeyBits                SSH RSA public key bit size (multiplies of 8, min 1024) (default 2048)
      --token-auth                             when enabled, the personal access token will be used instead of the SSH deploy key
      --toleration-keys strings                list of toleration keys used to schedule the controller pods onto nodes with matching taints
  -v, --version string                         toolkit version, when specified the manifests are downloaded from https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/releases
      --watch-all-namespaces                   watch for custom resources in all namespaces, if set to false it will only watch the namespace where the Flux controllers are installed (default true)

Options inherited from parent commands

      --as string                      Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.
      --as-group stringArray           Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
      --as-uid string                  UID to impersonate for the operation.
      --cache-dir string               Default cache directory (default "/opt/buildhome/.kube/cache")
      --certificate-authority string   Path to a cert file for the certificate authority to authenticate the Kubernetes API server
      --client-certificate string      Path to a client certificate file for TLS authentication to the Kubernetes API server
      --client-key string              Path to a client key file for TLS authentication to the Kubernetes API server
      --cluster string                 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
      --context string                 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
      --disable-compression            If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
      --insecure-skip-tls-verify       If true, the Kubernetes API server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
      --kube-api-burst int             The maximum burst queries-per-second of requests sent to the Kubernetes API. (default 300)
      --kube-api-qps float32           The maximum queries-per-second of requests sent to the Kubernetes API. (default 50)
      --kubeconfig string              Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
  -n, --namespace string               If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request (default "flux-system")
      --server string                  The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
      --timeout duration               timeout for this operation (default 5m0s)
      --tls-server-name string         Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
      --token string                   Bearer token for authentication to the API server
      --user string                    The name of the kubeconfig user to use
      --verbose                        print generated objects

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