- Documentation
- OpenShift Container Platform
- cli reference
- Usage of oc and kubectl commands history
- About
- Release notes
- Architecture
- Installing
- Updating clusters
- Support
- Web console
- Authentication
- Understanding authentication
- Configuring the internal OAuth server
- Understanding identity provider configuration
- Configuring identity providers
- Configuring an HTPasswd identity provider
- Configuring a Keystone identity provider
- Configuring an LDAP identity provider
- Configuring a basic authentication identity provider
- Configuring a request header identity provider
- Configuring a GitHub or GitHub Enterprise identity provider
- Configuring a GitLab identity provider
- Configuring a Google identity provider
- Configuring an OpenID Connect identity provider
- Configuring certificates
- Using RBAC to define and apply permissions
- Removing the kubeadmin user
- Configuring the user agent
- Understanding and creating service accounts
- Using service accounts in applications
- Using a service account as an OAuth client
- Scoping tokens
- Managing Security Context Constraints
- Impersonating the system:admin user
- Syncing LDAP groups
- Networking
- Storage
- Understanding persistent storage
- Configuring persistent storage
- Persistent storage using AWS Elastic Block Store
- Persistent storage using Fibre Channel
- Persistent storage using NFS
- Persistent storage using hostPath
- Persistent Storage using iSCSI
- Persistent storage using Container Storage Interface (CSI)
- Persistent storage using VMware vSphere
- Persistent storage using volume snapshots
- Expanding persistent volumes
- Dynamic provisioning
- Registry
- Builds
- Understanding image builds
- Understanding build configurations
- Creating build inputs
- Managing build output
- Using build strategies
- Custom image builds with Buildah
- Performing basic builds
- Triggering and modifying builds
- Performing advanced builds
- Using Red Hat subscriptions in builds
- Securing builds by strategy
- Build configuration resources
- Troubleshooting builds
- Setting up additional trusted certificate authorities for builds
- Images
- Applications
- Machine management
- Nodes
- Working with pods
- Controlling pod placement onto nodes (scheduling)
- About pod placement using the scheduler
- Configuring the default scheduler to control pod placement
- Placing pods relative to other pods using pod affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Controlling pod placement on nodes using node affinity rules
- Placing pods onto overcommited nodes
- Controlling pod placement using node taints
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Using Jobs and DaemonSets
- Working with nodes
- Working with containers
- Using containers
- Using Init Containers to perform tasks before a pod is deployed
- Using volumes to persist container data
- Mapping volumes using projected volumes
- Allowing containers to consume API objects
- Copying files to or from a container
- Executing remote commands in a container
- Using port forwarding to access applications in a container
- Working with clusters
- Logging
- About cluster logging
- About deploying cluster logging
- Deploying cluster logging
- Viewing the Kibana interface
- Deploying and Configuring the Event Router
- Configuring your cluster logging deployment
- Viewing Elasticsearch status
- Moving the cluster logging resources with node selectors
- Manually rolling out Elasticsearch
- Troubleshooting Kibana
- Exported fields
- Uninstalling cluster logging
- Monitoring
- Telemetry
- Scalability and performance
- Backup and restore
- cli reference
- Service Mesh
- Serverless applications
- Getting started with OpenShift Serverless
- OpenShift Serverless product architecture
- Installing OpenShift Serverless
- Getting started with Knative services
- Monitoring OpenShift Serverless components
- Cluster logging with OpenShift Serverless
- Configuring Knative Serving autoscaling
- Using Knative client
- Release Notes
Usage of oc and kubectl commands
Kubernetes' command line interface (cli), kubectl, can be used to run commands against a Kubernetes cluster. Because OpenShift Container Platform is a certified Kubernetes distribution, you can use the supported kubectl binaries that ship with OpenShift Container Platform, or you can gain extended functionality by using the oc binary.
The oc binary
The oc binary offers the same capabilities as the kubectl binary, but it extends to natively support additional OpenShift Container Platform features, including:
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Full support for OpenShift Container Platform resources
Resources such as DeploymentConfigs, BuildConfigs, Routes, ImageStreams, and ImageStreamTags are specific to OpenShift Container Platform distributions, and build upon standard Kubernetes primitives.
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Authentication
The
ocbinary offers a built-inlogincommand that allows authentication and enables you to work with OpenShift Container Platform projects, which map Kubernetes namespaces to authenticated users. See Understanding authentication for more information. -
Additional commands
The additional command
oc new-app, for example, makes it easier to get new applications started using existing source code or pre-built images. Similarly, the additional commandoc new-projectmakes it easier to start a project that you can switch to as your default.
The kubectl binary
The kubectl binary is provided as a means to support existing workflows and scripts for new OpenShift Container Platform users coming from a standard Kubernetes environment, or for those who prefer to use the kubectl cli. Existing users of kubectl can continue to use the binary to interact with Kubernetes primitives, with no changes required to the OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
For more information, see the kubectl docs.