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.TH KUBERNETES(1) kubernetes User Manuals
Eric Paris
Jan 2015

.SH NAME
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kubectl port-forward - Forward one or more local ports to a pod


.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBkubectl port-forward\fP [OPTIONS]


.SH DESCRIPTION
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Forward one or more local ports to a pod.

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Use resource type/name such as deployment/mydeployment to select a pod. Resource type defaults to 'pod' if omitted.

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If there are multiple pods matching the criteria, a pod will be selected automatically. The forwarding session ends when the selected pod terminates, and a rerun of the command is needed to resume forwarding.


.SH OPTIONS
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\fB--address\fP=[localhost]
	Addresses to listen on (comma separated). Only accepts IP addresses or localhost as a value. When localhost is supplied, kubectl will try to bind on both 127.0.0.1 and ::1 and will fail if neither of these addresses are available to bind.

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\fB--pod-running-timeout\fP=1m0s
	The length of time (like 5s, 2m, or 3h, higher than zero) to wait until at least one pod is running


.SH OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS
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\fB--as\fP=""
	Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.

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\fB--as-group\fP=[]
	Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

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\fB--as-uid\fP=""
	UID to impersonate for the operation.

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\fB--azure-container-registry-config\fP=""
	Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information.

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\fB--cache-dir\fP="/tmp/.kube/cache"
	Default cache directory

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\fB--certificate-authority\fP=""
	Path to a cert file for the certificate authority

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\fB--client-certificate\fP=""
	Path to a client certificate file for TLS

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\fB--client-key\fP=""
	Path to a client key file for TLS

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\fB--cluster\fP=""
	The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

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\fB--context\fP=""
	The name of the kubeconfig context to use

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\fB--disable-compression\fP=false
	If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server

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\fB--insecure-skip-tls-verify\fP=false
	If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

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\fB--kubeconfig\fP=""
	Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.

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\fB--match-server-version\fP=false
	Require server version to match client version

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\fB-n\fP, \fB--namespace\fP=""
	If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

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\fB--password\fP=""
	Password for basic authentication to the API server

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\fB--profile\fP="none"
	Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)

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\fB--profile-output\fP="profile.pprof"
	Name of the file to write the profile to

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\fB--request-timeout\fP="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.

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\fB-s\fP, \fB--server\fP=""
	The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

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\fB--tls-server-name\fP=""
	Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used

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\fB--token\fP=""
	Bearer token for authentication to the API server

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\fB--user\fP=""
	The name of the kubeconfig user to use

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\fB--username\fP=""
	Username for basic authentication to the API server

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\fB--version\fP=false
	--version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version

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\fB--warnings-as-errors\fP=false
	Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code


.SH EXAMPLE
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  # Listen on ports 5000 and 6000 locally, forwarding data to/from ports 5000 and 6000 in the pod
  kubectl port-forward pod/mypod 5000 6000
  
  # Listen on ports 5000 and 6000 locally, forwarding data to/from ports 5000 and 6000 in a pod selected by the deployment
  kubectl port-forward deployment/mydeployment 5000 6000
  
  # Listen on port 8443 locally, forwarding to the targetPort of the service's port named "https" in a pod selected by the service
  kubectl port-forward service/myservice 8443:https
  
  # Listen on port 8888 locally, forwarding to 5000 in the pod
  kubectl port-forward pod/mypod 8888:5000
  
  # Listen on port 8888 on all addresses, forwarding to 5000 in the pod
  kubectl port-forward --address 0.0.0.0 pod/mypod 8888:5000
  
  # Listen on port 8888 on localhost and selected IP, forwarding to 5000 in the pod
  kubectl port-forward --address localhost,10.19.21.23 pod/mypod 8888:5000
  
  # Listen on a random port locally, forwarding to 5000 in the pod
  kubectl port-forward pod/mypod :5000

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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBkubectl(1)\fP,


.SH HISTORY
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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!
