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deck validate

The validate command reads the state file and ensures validity. It reads all the specified state files and reports YAML/JSON parsing issues. It also checks for foreign relationships and alerts if there are broken relationships, or missing links present.

No communication takes places between decK and Kong during the execution of this command unless –online flag is used.

Syntax

deck validate [command-specific flags] [global flags]

Flags

-h, --help
help for validate (Default: false)
--rbac-resources-only
indicate that the state file(s) contains RBAC resources only (Kong Enterprise only). (Default: false)
-s, --state
file(s) containing Kong’s configuration. This flag can be specified multiple times for multiple files. Use ‘-‘ to read from stdin. (Default: [kong.yaml])

Global flags

--analytics
Share anonymized data to help improve decK. Use --analytics=false to disable this. (Default: true)
--ca-cert
Custom CA certificate (raw contents) to use to verify Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_CA_CERT environment variable. This takes precedence over --ca-cert-file flag.
--ca-cert-file
Path to a custom CA certificate to use to verify Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_CA_CERT_FILE environment variable.
--config
Config file (default is $HOME/.deck.yaml).
--headers
HTTP headers (key:value) to inject in all requests to Kong’s Admin API. This flag can be specified multiple times to inject multiple headers.
--kong-addr
HTTP address of Kong’s Admin API. This value can also be set using the environment variable DECK_KONG_ADDR environment variable. (Default: "http://localhost:8001")
--kong-cookie-jar-path
Absolute path to a cookie-jar file in the Netscape cookie format for auth with Admin Server. You may also need to pass in as header the User-Agent that was used to create the cookie-jar.
--konnect-addr
Address of the Konnect endpoint. (Default: "https://us.api.konghq.com")
--konnect-email
Email address associated with your Konnect account.
--konnect-password
Password associated with your Konnect account, this takes precedence over --konnect-password-file flag.
--konnect-password-file
File containing the password to your Konnect account.
--no-color
Disable colorized output (Default: false)
--skip-workspace-crud
Skip API calls related to Workspaces (Kong Enterprise only). (Default: false)
--timeout
Set a request timeout for the client to connect with Kong (in seconds). (Default: 10)
--tls-server-name
Name to use to verify the hostname in Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_SERVER_NAME environment variable.
--tls-skip-verify
Disable verification of Kong’s Admin TLS certificate. This value can also be set using DECK_TLS_SKIP_VERIFY environment variable. (Default: false)
--verbose
Enable verbose logging levels Setting this value to 2 outputs all HTTP requests/responses between decK and Kong. (Default: 0)

See also

  • deck - Administer your Kong clusters declaratively
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