OpenShift CLI administrator command reference

  # Build the dependency tree for the 'latest' tag in <image-stream>
  oc adm build-chain <image-stream>

  # Build the dependency tree for the 'v2' tag in dot format and visualize it via the dot utility
  oc adm build-chain <image-stream>:v2 -o dot | dot -T svg -o deps.svg

  # Build the dependency tree across all namespaces for the specified image stream tag found in the 'test' namespace
  oc adm build-chain <image-stream> -n test --all

  # Mirror an operator-registry image and its contents to a registry
  oc adm catalog mirror quay.io/my/image:latest myregistry.com

  # Mirror an operator-registry image and its contents to a particular namespace in a registry
  oc adm catalog mirror quay.io/my/image:latest myregistry.com/my-namespace

  # Mirror to an airgapped registry by first mirroring to files
  oc adm catalog mirror quay.io/my/image:latest file:///local/index
  oc adm catalog mirror file:///local/index/my/image:latest my-airgapped-registry.com

  # Configure a cluster to use a mirrored registry
  oc apply -f manifests/imageContentSourcePolicy.yaml

  # Edit the mirroring mappings and mirror with "oc image mirror" manually
  oc adm catalog mirror --manifests-only quay.io/my/image:latest myregistry.com
  oc image mirror -f manifests/mapping.txt

  # Delete all ImageContentSourcePolicies generated by oc adm catalog mirror
  oc delete imagecontentsourcepolicy -l operators.openshift.org/catalog=true

  # Installing bash completion on macOS using homebrew
  ## If running Bash 3.2 included with macOS
  brew install bash-completion
  ## or, if running Bash 4.1+
  brew install bash-completion@2
  ## If oc is installed via homebrew, this should start working immediately.
  ## If you've installed via other means, you may need add the completion to your completion directory
  oc completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/oc


  # Installing bash completion on Linux
  ## If bash-completion is not installed on Linux, please install the 'bash-completion' package
  ## via your distribution's package manager.
  ## Load the oc completion code for bash into the current shell
  source <(oc completion bash)
  ## Write bash completion code to a file and source it from .bash_profile
  oc completion bash > ~/.kube/completion.bash.inc
  printf "
  # Kubectl shell completion
  source '$HOME/.kube/completion.bash.inc'
  " >> $HOME/.bash_profile
  source $HOME/.bash_profile

  # Load the oc completion code for zsh[1] into the current shell
  source <(oc completion zsh)
  # Set the oc completion code for zsh[1] to autoload on startup
  oc completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_oc"

  # Display the current-context
  oc config current-context

  # Delete the minikube cluster
  oc config delete-cluster minikube

  # Delete the context for the minikube cluster
  oc config delete-context minikube

  # Delete the minikube user
  oc config delete-user minikube

  # List the clusters oc knows about
  oc config get-clusters

  # List all the contexts in your kubeconfig file
  oc config get-contexts

  # Describe one context in your kubeconfig file.
  oc config get-contexts my-context

  # List the users oc knows about
  oc config get-users

  # Rename the context 'old-name' to 'new-name' in your kubeconfig file
  oc config rename-context old-name new-name

  # Set server field on the my-cluster cluster to https://1.2.3.4
  oc config set clusters.my-cluster.server https://1.2.3.4

  # Set certificate-authority-data field on the my-cluster cluster.
  oc config set clusters.my-cluster.certificate-authority-data $(echo "cert_data_here" | base64 -i -)

  # Set cluster field in the my-context context to my-cluster.
  oc config set contexts.my-context.cluster my-cluster

  # Set client-key-data field in the cluster-admin user using --set-raw-bytes option.
  oc config set users.cluster-admin.client-key-data cert_data_here --set-raw-bytes=true

  # Set only the server field on the e2e cluster entry without touching other values.
  oc config set-cluster e2e --server=https://1.2.3.4

  # Embed certificate authority data for the e2e cluster entry
  oc config set-cluster e2e --embed-certs --certificate-authority=~/.kube/e2e/kubernetes.ca.crt

  # Disable cert checking for the dev cluster entry
  oc config set-cluster e2e --insecure-skip-tls-verify=true

  # Set custom TLS server name to use for validation for the e2e cluster entry
  oc config set-cluster e2e --tls-server-name=my-cluster-name

  # Set the user field on the gce context entry without touching other values
  oc config set-context gce --user=cluster-admin

  # Set only the "client-key" field on the "cluster-admin"
  # entry, without touching other values:
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --client-key=~/.kube/admin.key

  # Set basic auth for the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --username=admin --password=uXFGweU9l35qcif

  # Embed client certificate data in the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --client-certificate=~/.kube/admin.crt --embed-certs=true

  # Enable the Google Compute Platform auth provider for the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --auth-provider=gcp

  # Enable the OpenID Connect auth provider for the "cluster-admin" entry with additional args
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --auth-provider=oidc --auth-provider-arg=client-id=foo --auth-provider-arg=client-secret=bar

  # Remove the "client-secret" config value for the OpenID Connect auth provider for the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --auth-provider=oidc --auth-provider-arg=client-secret-

  # Enable new exec auth plugin for the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-command=/path/to/the/executable --exec-api-version=client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1

  # Define new exec auth plugin args for the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-arg=arg1 --exec-arg=arg2

  # Create or update exec auth plugin environment variables for the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-env=key1=val1 --exec-env=key2=val2

  # Remove exec auth plugin environment variables for the "cluster-admin" entry
  oc config set-credentials cluster-admin --exec-env=var-to-remove-

  # Unset the current-context.
  oc config unset current-context

  # Unset namespace in foo context.
  oc config unset contexts.foo.namespace

  # Use the context for the minikube cluster
  oc config use-context minikube

  # Show merged kubeconfig settings.
  oc config view

  # Show merged kubeconfig settings and raw certificate data.
  oc config view --raw

  # Get the password for the e2e user
  oc config view -o jsonpath='{.users[?(@.name == "e2e")].user.password}'

  # Mark node "foo" as unschedulable.
  oc adm cordon foo

  # Output a bootstrap project template in YAML format to stdout
  oc adm create-bootstrap-project-template -o yaml

  # Output a template for the error page to stdout
  oc adm create-error-template

  # Output a template for the login page to stdout
  oc adm create-login-template

  # Output a template for the provider selection page to stdout
  oc adm create-provider-selection-template

  # Drain node "foo", even if there are pods not managed by a ReplicationController, ReplicaSet, Job, DaemonSet or StatefulSet on it.
  $ oc adm drain foo --force

  # As above, but abort if there are pods not managed by a ReplicationController, ReplicaSet, Job, DaemonSet or StatefulSet, and use a grace period of 15 minutes.
  $ oc adm drain foo --grace-period=900

  # Add user1 and user2 to my-group
  oc adm groups add-users my-group user1 user2

  # Add a group with no users
  oc adm groups new my-group

  # Add a group with two users
  oc adm groups new my-group user1 user2

  # Add a group with one user and shorter output
  oc adm groups new my-group user1 -o name

  # Prune all orphaned groups
  oc adm groups prune --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Prune all orphaned groups except the ones from the blacklist file
  oc adm groups prune --blacklist=/path/to/blacklist.txt --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Prune all orphaned groups from a list of specific groups specified in a whitelist file
  oc adm groups prune --whitelist=/path/to/whitelist.txt --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Prune all orphaned groups from a list of specific groups specified in a whitelist
  oc adm groups prune groups/group_name groups/other_name --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Remove user1 and user2 from my-group
  oc adm groups remove-users my-group user1 user2

  # Sync all groups with an LDAP server
  oc adm groups sync --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Sync all groups except the ones from the blacklist file with an LDAP server
  oc adm groups sync --blacklist=/path/to/blacklist.txt --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Sync specific groups specified in a whitelist file with an LDAP server
  oc adm groups sync --whitelist=/path/to/whitelist.txt --sync-config=/path/to/sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Sync all OpenShift groups that have been synced previously with an LDAP server
  oc adm groups sync --type=openshift --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Sync specific OpenShift groups if they have been synced previously with an LDAP server
  oc adm groups sync groups/group1 groups/group2 groups/group3 --sync-config=/path/to/sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Collect debugging data for the "openshift-apiserver" clusteroperator
  oc adm inspect clusteroperator/openshift-apiserver

  # Collect debugging data for the "openshift-apiserver" and "kube-apiserver" clusteroperators
  oc adm inspect clusteroperator/openshift-apiserver clusteroperator/kube-apiserver

  # Collect debugging data for all clusteroperators
  oc adm inspect clusteroperator

  # Collect debugging data for all clusteroperators and clusterversions
  oc adm inspect clusteroperators,clusterversions

  # Perform a dry-run of updating all objects
  oc adm migrate template-instances

  # To actually perform the update, the confirm flag must be appended
  oc adm migrate template-instances --confirm

  # Gather information using the default plug-in image and command, writing into ./must-gather.local.<rand>
  oc adm must-gather

  # Gather information with a specific local folder to copy to
  oc adm must-gather --dest-dir=/local/directory

  # Gather audit information
  oc adm must-gather -- /usr/bin/gather_audit_logs

  # Gather information using multiple plug-in images
  oc adm must-gather --image=quay.io/kubevirt/must-gather --image=quay.io/openshift/origin-must-gather

  # Gather information using a specific image stream plug-in
  oc adm must-gather --image-stream=openshift/must-gather:latest

  # Gather information using a specific image, command, and pod-dir
  oc adm must-gather --image=my/image:tag --source-dir=/pod/directory -- myspecial-command.sh

  # Create a new project using a node selector
  oc adm new-project myproject --node-selector='type=user-node,region=east'

  # Show kubelet logs from all masters
  oc adm node-logs --role master -u kubelet

  # See what logs are available in masters in /var/logs
  oc adm node-logs --role master --path=/

  # Display cron log file from all masters
  oc adm node-logs --role master --path=cron

  # Provide isolation for project p1
  oc adm pod-network isolate-projects <p1>

  # Allow all projects with label name=top-secret to have their own isolated project network
  oc adm pod-network isolate-projects --selector='name=top-secret'

  # Allow project p2 to use project p1 network
  oc adm pod-network join-projects --to=<p1> <p2>

  # Allow all projects with label name=top-secret to use project p1 network
  oc adm pod-network join-projects --to=<p1> --selector='name=top-secret'

  # Allow project p1 to access all pods in the cluster and vice versa
  oc adm pod-network make-projects-global <p1>

  # Allow all projects with label name=share to access all pods in the cluster and vice versa
  oc adm pod-network make-projects-global --selector='name=share'

  # Add the 'view' role to user1 for the current project
  oc policy add-role-to-user view user1

  # Add the 'edit' role to serviceaccount1 for the current project
  oc policy add-role-to-user edit -z serviceaccount1

  # Add the 'restricted' security context constraint to group1 and group2
  oc adm policy add-scc-to-group restricted group1 group2

  # Add the 'restricted' security context constraint to user1 and user2
  oc adm policy add-scc-to-user restricted user1 user2

  # Add the 'privileged' security context constraint to serviceaccount1 in the current namespace
  oc adm policy add-scc-to-user privileged -z serviceaccount1

  # Check whether service accounts sa1 and sa2 can admit a pod with a template pod spec specified in my_resource.yaml
  # Service Account specified in myresource.yaml file is ignored
  oc policy scc-review -z sa1,sa2 -f my_resource.yaml

  # Check whether service accounts system:serviceaccount:bob:default can admit a pod with a template pod spec specified in my_resource.yaml
  oc policy scc-review -z system:serviceaccount:bob:default -f my_resource.yaml

  # Check whether the service account specified in my_resource_with_sa.yaml can admit the pod
  oc policy scc-review -f my_resource_with_sa.yaml

  # Check whether the default service account can admit the pod; default is taken since no service account is defined in myresource_with_no_sa.yaml
  oc policy scc-review -f myresource_with_no_sa.yaml

  # Check whether user bob can create a pod specified in myresource.yaml
  oc policy scc-subject-review -u bob -f myresource.yaml

  # Check whether user bob who belongs to projectAdmin group can create a pod specified in myresource.yaml
  oc policy scc-subject-review -u bob -g projectAdmin -f myresource.yaml

  # Check whether a service account specified in the pod template spec in myresourcewithsa.yaml can create the pod
  oc policy scc-subject-review -f myresourcewithsa.yaml

  # Dry run deleting older completed and failed builds and also including
  # all builds whose associated build config no longer exists
  oc adm prune builds --orphans

  # To actually perform the prune operation, the confirm flag must be appended
  oc adm prune builds --orphans --confirm

  # Dry run deleting all but the last complete deployment for every deployment config
  oc adm prune deployments --keep-complete=1

  # To actually perform the prune operation, the confirm flag must be appended
  oc adm prune deployments --keep-complete=1 --confirm

  # Prune all orphaned groups
  oc adm prune groups --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Prune all orphaned groups except the ones from the blacklist file
  oc adm prune groups --blacklist=/path/to/blacklist.txt --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Prune all orphaned groups from a list of specific groups specified in a whitelist file
  oc adm prune groups --whitelist=/path/to/whitelist.txt --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # Prune all orphaned groups from a list of specific groups specified in a whitelist
  oc adm prune groups groups/group_name groups/other_name --sync-config=/path/to/ldap-sync-config.yaml --confirm

  # See what the prune command would delete if only images and their referrers were more than an hour old
  # and obsoleted by 3 newer revisions under the same tag were considered
  oc adm prune images --keep-tag-revisions=3 --keep-younger-than=60m

  # To actually perform the prune operation, the confirm flag must be appended
  oc adm prune images --keep-tag-revisions=3 --keep-younger-than=60m --confirm

  # See what the prune command would delete if we are interested in removing images
  # exceeding currently set limit ranges ('openshift.io/Image')
  oc adm prune images --prune-over-size-limit

  # To actually perform the prune operation, the confirm flag must be appended
  oc adm prune images --prune-over-size-limit --confirm

  # Force the insecure http protocol with the particular registry host name
  oc adm prune images --registry-url=http://registry.example.org --confirm

  # Force a secure connection with a custom certificate authority to the particular registry host name
  oc adm prune images --registry-url=registry.example.org --certificate-authority=/path/to/custom/ca.crt --confirm

  # Use git to check out the source code for the current cluster release to DIR
  oc adm release extract --git=DIR

  # Extract cloud credential requests for AWS
  oc adm release extract --credentials-requests --cloud=aws

  # Show information about the cluster's current release
  oc adm release info

  # Show the source code that comprises a release
  oc adm release info 4.2.2 --commit-urls

  # Show the source code difference between two releases
  oc adm release info 4.2.0 4.2.2 --commits

  # Show where the images referenced by the release are located
  oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.2.2 --pullspecs

  # Perform a dry run showing what would be mirrored, including the mirror objects
  oc adm release mirror 4.3.0 --to myregistry.local/openshift/release \
  --release-image-signature-to-dir /tmp/releases --dry-run

  # Mirror a release into the current directory
  oc adm release mirror 4.3.0 --to file://openshift/release \
  --release-image-signature-to-dir /tmp/releases

  # Mirror a release to another directory in the default location
  oc adm release mirror 4.3.0 --to-dir /tmp/releases

  # Upload a release from the current directory to another server
  oc adm release mirror --from file://openshift/release --to myregistry.com/openshift/release \
  --release-image-signature-to-dir /tmp/releases

  # Mirror the 4.3.0 release to repository registry.example.com and apply signatures to connected cluster
  oc adm release mirror --from=quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.3.0-x86_64 \
  --to=registry.example.com/your/repository --apply-release-image-signature

  # Create a release from the latest origin images and push to a DockerHub repo
  oc adm release new --from-image-stream=4.1 -n origin --to-image docker.io/mycompany/myrepo:latest

  # Create a new release with updated metadata from a previous release
  oc adm release new --from-release registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:v4.1 --name 4.1.1 \
  --previous 4.1.0 --metadata ... --to-image docker.io/mycompany/myrepo:latest

  # Create a new release and override a single image
  oc adm release new --from-release registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:v4.1 \
  cli=docker.io/mycompany/cli:latest --to-image docker.io/mycompany/myrepo:latest

  # Run a verification pass to ensure the release can be reproduced
  oc adm release new --from-release registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:v4.1

  # Update node 'foo' with a taint with key 'dedicated' and value 'special-user' and effect 'NoSchedule'.
  # If a taint with that key and effect already exists, its value is replaced as specified.
  oc adm taint nodes foo dedicated=special-user:NoSchedule

  # Remove from node 'foo' the taint with key 'dedicated' and effect 'NoSchedule' if one exists.
  oc adm taint nodes foo dedicated:NoSchedule-

  # Remove from node 'foo' all the taints with key 'dedicated'
  oc adm taint nodes foo dedicated-

  # Add a taint with key 'dedicated' on nodes having label mylabel=X
  oc adm taint node -l myLabel=X  dedicated=foo:PreferNoSchedule

  # Add to node 'foo' a taint with key 'bar' and no value
  oc adm taint nodes foo bar:NoSchedule

  # Show usage statistics for images
  oc adm top images

  # Show usage statistics for image streams
  oc adm top imagestreams

  # Show metrics for all nodes
  oc adm top node

  # Show metrics for a given node
  oc adm top node NODE_NAME

  # Show metrics for all pods in the default namespace
  oc adm top pod

  # Show metrics for all pods in the given namespace
  oc adm top pod --namespace=NAMESPACE

  # Show metrics for a given pod and its containers
  oc adm top pod POD_NAME --containers

  # Show metrics for the pods defined by label name=myLabel
  oc adm top pod -l name=myLabel

  # Mark node "foo" as schedulable.
  $ oc adm uncordon foo

  # Verify the image signature and identity using the local GPG keychain
  oc adm verify-image-signature sha256:c841e9b64e4579bd56c794bdd7c36e1c257110fd2404bebbb8b613e4935228c4 \
  --expected-identity=registry.local:5000/foo/bar:v1

  # Verify the image signature and identity using the local GPG keychain and save the status
  oc adm verify-image-signature sha256:c841e9b64e4579bd56c794bdd7c36e1c257110fd2404bebbb8b613e4935228c4 \
  --expected-identity=registry.local:5000/foo/bar:v1 --save

  # Verify the image signature and identity via exposed registry route
  oc adm verify-image-signature sha256:c841e9b64e4579bd56c794bdd7c36e1c257110fd2404bebbb8b613e4935228c4 \
  --expected-identity=registry.local:5000/foo/bar:v1 \
  --registry-url=docker-registry.foo.com

  # Remove all signature verifications from the image
  oc adm verify-image-signature sha256:c841e9b64e4579bd56c794bdd7c36e1c257110fd2404bebbb8b613e4935228c4 --remove-all