Eric Paris Jan 2015
NAME
kubectl config rename-context - Renames a context from the kubeconfig file.
SYNOPSIS
kubectl config rename-context [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
Renames a context from the kubeconfig file.
CONTEXT_NAME is the context name that you wish to change.
NEW_NAME is the new name you wish to set.
Note: In case the context being renamed is the ’current-context’, this field will also be updated.
OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS
| --add-dir-header=false | If true, adds the file directory to the header of the log messages | ||
| --alsologtostderr=false | log to standard error as well as files | ||
| --application-metrics-count-limit=100 | Max number of application metrics to store (per container) | ||
| --as="" | Username to impersonate for the operation | ||
| --as-group=[] | Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups. | ||
| --azure-container-registry-config="" | Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information. | ||
| --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id" | Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists. | ||
| --cache-dir="/home/user/.kube/cache" | Default cache directory | ||
| --certificate-authority="" | Path to a cert file for the certificate authority | ||
| --client-certificate="" | Path to a client certificate file for TLS | ||
| --client-key="" | Path to a client key file for TLS | ||
| --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16 | CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health checks | ||
| --cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,209.85.152.0/22,209.85.204.0/22,35.191.0.0/16 | CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health checks | ||
| --cluster="" | The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use | ||
| --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json" | location of the container hints file | ||
| --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock" | containerd endpoint | ||
| --containerd-namespace="k8s.io" | containerd namespace | ||
| --context="" | The name of the kubeconfig context to use | ||
| --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300 | Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration. | ||
| --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300 | Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration. | ||
| --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false | Disable collecting root Cgroup stats | ||
| --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock" | docker endpoint | ||
| --docker-env-metadata-whitelist="" | a comma-separated list of environment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be collected for docker containers | ||
| --docker-only=false | Only report docker containers in addition to root stats | ||
| --docker-root="/var/lib/docker" | DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker) | ||
| --docker-tls=false | use TLS to connect to docker | ||
| --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem" | path to trusted CA | ||
| --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem" | path to client certificate | ||
| --docker-tls-key="key.pem" | path to private key | ||
| --enable-load-reader=false | Whether to enable cpu load reader | ||
| --event-storage-age-limit="default=0" | Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified event types | ||
| --event-storage-event-limit="default=0" | Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event types | ||
| --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s | Interval between global housekeepings | ||
| --housekeeping-interval=10s | Interval between container housekeepings | ||
| --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="" | use a particular kubeconfig file | ||
| --log-backtrace-at=:0 | when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace | ||
| --log-cadvisor-usage=false | Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container | ||
| --log-dir="" | If non-empty, write log files in this directory | ||
| --log-file="" | If non-empty, use this log file | ||
| --log-file-max-size=1800 | Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited. | ||
| --log-flush-frequency=5s | Maximum number of seconds between log flushes | ||
| --logtostderr=true | log to standard error instead of files | ||
| --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id" | Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the first one that exists. | ||
| --match-server-version=false | Require server version to match client version | ||
| -n, --namespace="" | If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request | ||
| --one-output=false | If true, only write logs to their native severity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level | ||
| --password="" | Password for basic authentication to the API server | ||
| --profile="none" | Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex) | ||
| --profile-output="profile.pprof" | Name of the file to write the profile to | ||
| --referenced-reset-interval=0 | Reset interval for referenced bytes (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are never cleared (default: 0) | ||
| --request-timeout="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. | ||
| -s, --server="" | The address and port of the Kubernetes API server | ||
| --skip-headers=false | If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages | ||
| --skip-log-headers=false | If true, avoid headers when opening log files | ||
| --stderrthreshold=2 | logs at or above this threshold go to stderr | ||
| --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s | Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction | ||
| --storage-driver-db="cadvisor" | database name | ||
| --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086" | database host:port | ||
| --storage-driver-password="root" | database password | ||
| --storage-driver-secure=false | use secure connection with database | ||
| --storage-driver-table="stats" | table name | ||
| --storage-driver-user="root" | database username | ||
| --tls-server-name="" | Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used | ||
| --token="" | Bearer token for authentication to the API server | ||
| --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s | Interval between machine info updates. | ||
| --user="" | The name of the kubeconfig user to use | ||
| --username="" | Username for basic authentication to the API server | ||
| -v, --v=0 | number for the log level verbosity | ||
| --version=false | Print version information and quit | ||
| --vmodule= | comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging | ||
| --warnings-as-errors=false | Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code | 
EXAMPLE
# Rename the
context ’old-name’ to ’new-name’ in
your kubeconfig file 
kubectl config rename-context old-name new-name
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since!