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CLI Arguments

Learn about the various settings and configurations of the controller can be tweaked using CLI flags.

Flags

Flag	Type	Description	Default
--anonymous-reports	bool	Send anonymized usage data to help improve Kong.	true
--apiserver-host	string	The Kubernetes API server URL. If not set, the operator will use cluster config discovery.	""
--cluster-ca-secret	string	Name of the Secret containing the cluster CA certificate.	kong-operator-ca
--cluster-ca-secret-namespace	string	Name of the namespace for Secret containing the cluster CA certificate.	""
--controller-name	string	Controller name to use if other than the default, only needed for multi-tenancy.	""
--enable-controller-controlplane	bool	Enable the ControlPlane controller.	true
--enable-controller-dataplane	bool	Enable the DataPlane controller.	true
--enable-controller-dataplane-bluegreen	bool	Enable the DataPlane BlueGreen controller.	true
--enable-controller-gateway	bool	Enable the Gateway controller.	true
--enable-validating-webhook	bool	Enable the validating webhook.	true
--health-probe-bind-address	string	The address the probe endpoint binds to.	:8081
--kubeconfig	string	Path to the kubeconfig file.	""
--metrics-bind-address	string	The address the metric endpoint binds to.	:8080
--no-leader-election	bool	Disable leader election for controller manager. Disabling this will not ensure there is only one active controller manager.	false
--version	bool	Print version information.	false
--zap-devel	bool	Development Mode defaults(encoder=consoleEncoder,logLevel=Debug,stackTraceLevel=Warn). Production Mode defaults(encoder=jsonEncoder,logLevel=Info,stackTraceLevel=Error)	false
--zap-encoder	string	Zap log encoding (one of ‘json’ or ‘console’)	""
--zap-log-level	string	Zap Level to configure the verbosity of logging. Can be one of ‘debug’, ‘info’, ‘error’, or any integer value > 0 which corresponds to custom debug levels of increasing verbosity	""
--zap-stacktrace-level	string	Zap Level at and above which stacktraces are captured (one of ‘info’, ‘error’, ‘panic’).	""
--zap-time-encoding	string	Zap time encoding (one of ‘epoch’, ‘millis’, ‘nano’, ‘iso8601’, ‘rfc3339’ or ‘rfc3339nano’). Defaults to ‘epoch’.	""