enableServer enables Kubelet’s secured server. Note: Kubelet’s insecure port is controlled by the readOnlyPort option. Default: true

staticPodPath is the path to the directory containing local (static) pods to run, or the path to a single static pod file. Default: “”

syncFrequency is the max period between synchronizing running containers and config. Default: “1m”

fileCheckFrequency is the duration between checking config files for new data. Default: “20s”

httpCheckFrequency is the duration between checking http for new data. Default: “20s”

staticPodURL is the URL for accessing static pods to run. Default: “”

staticPodURLHeader is a map of slices with HTTP headers to use when accessing the podURL. Default: nil

address is the IP address for the Kubelet to serve on (set to 0.0.0.0 for all interfaces). Default: “0.0.0.0”

port is the port for the Kubelet to serve on. The port number must be between 1 and 65535, inclusive. Default: 10250

readOnlyPort is the read-only port for the Kubelet to serve on with no authentication/authorization. The port number must be between 1 and 65535, inclusive. Setting this field to 0 disables the read-only service. Default: 0 (disabled)

tlsCertFile is the file containing x509 Certificate for HTTPS. (CA cert, if any, concatenated after server cert). If tlsCertFile and tlsPrivateKeyFile are not provided, a self-signed certificate and key are generated for the public address and saved to the directory passed to the Kubelet’s —cert-dir flag. Default: “”

tlsPrivateKeyFile is the file containing x509 private key matching tlsCertFile. Default: “”

tlsCipherSuites is the list of allowed cipher suites for the server. Values are from tls package constants (https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/#pkg-constants). Default: nil

tlsMinVersion is the minimum TLS version supported. Values are from tls package constants (). Default: “”

rotateCertificates enables client certificate rotation. The Kubelet will request a new certificate from the certificates.k8s.io API. This requires an approver to approve the certificate signing requests. Default: false

serverTLSBootstrap enables server certificate bootstrap. Instead of self signing a serving certificate, the Kubelet will request a certificate from the ‘certificates.k8s.io’ API. This requires an approver to approve the certificate signing requests (CSR). The RotateKubeletServerCertificate feature must be enabled when setting this field. Default: false

authentication specifies how requests to the Kubelet’s server are authenticated. Defaults: anonymous: enabled: false webhook: enabled: true cacheTTL: “2m”

authorization specifies how requests to the Kubelet’s server are authorized. Defaults: mode: Webhook webhook: cacheAuthorizedTTL: “5m” cacheUnauthorizedTTL: “30s”

registryPullQPS is the limit of registry pulls per second. The value must not be a negative number. Setting it to 0 means no limit. Default: 5

registryBurst is the maximum size of bursty pulls, temporarily allows pulls to burst to this number, while still not exceeding registryPullQPS. The value must not be a negative number. Only used if registryPullQPS is greater than 0. Default: 10

eventRecordQPS is the maximum event creations per second. If 0, there is no limit enforced. The value cannot be a negative number. Default: 5

eventBurst is the maximum size of a burst of event creations, temporarily allows event creations to burst to this number, while still not exceeding eventRecordQPS. This field canot be a negative number and it is only used when eventRecordQPS > 0. Default: 10

enableDebuggingHandlers enables server endpoints for log access and local running of containers and commands, including the exec, attach, logs, and portforward features. Default: true

enableContentionProfiling enables lock contention profiling, if enableDebuggingHandlers is true. Default: false

healthzPort is the port of the localhost healthz endpoint (set to 0 to disable). A valid number is between 1 and 65535. Default: 10248

healthzBindAddress is the IP address for the healthz server to serve on. Default: “127.0.0.1”

oomScoreAdj is The oom-score-adj value for kubelet process. Values must be within the range [-1000, 1000]. Default: -999

clusterDomain is the DNS domain for this cluster. If set, kubelet will configure all containers to search this domain in addition to the host’s search domains. Default: “”

clusterDNS is a list of IP addresses for the cluster DNS server. If set, kubelet will configure all containers to use this for DNS resolution instead of the host’s DNS servers. Default: nil

streamingConnectionIdleTimeout is the maximum time a streaming connection can be idle before the connection is automatically closed. Default: “4h”

nodeStatusUpdateFrequency is the frequency that kubelet computes node status. If node lease feature is not enabled, it is also the frequency that kubelet posts node status to master. Note: When node lease feature is not enabled, be cautious when changing the constant, it must work with nodeMonitorGracePeriod in nodecontroller. Default: “10s”

nodeStatusReportFrequency is the frequency that kubelet posts node status to master if node status does not change. Kubelet will ignore this frequency and post node status immediately if any change is detected. It is only used when node lease feature is enabled. nodeStatusReportFrequency’s default value is 5m. But if nodeStatusUpdateFrequency is set explicitly, nodeStatusReportFrequency’s default value will be set to nodeStatusUpdateFrequency for backward compatibility. Default: “5m”

nodeLeaseDurationSeconds is the duration the Kubelet will set on its corresponding Lease. NodeLease provides an indicator of node health by having the Kubelet create and periodically renew a lease, named after the node, in the kube-node-lease namespace. If the lease expires, the node can be considered unhealthy. The lease is currently renewed every 10s, per KEP-0009. In the future, the lease renewal interval may be set based on the lease duration. The field value must be greater than 0. Default: 40

imageMinimumGCAge is the minimum age for an unused image before it is garbage collected. Default: “2m”

imageGCHighThresholdPercent is the percent of disk usage after which image garbage collection is always run. The percent is calculated by dividing this field value by 100, so this field must be between 0 and 100, inclusive. When specified, the value must be greater than imageGCLowThresholdPercent. Default: 85

imageGCLowThresholdPercent is the percent of disk usage before which image garbage collection is never run. Lowest disk usage to garbage collect to. The percent is calculated by dividing this field value by 100, so the field value must be between 0 and 100, inclusive. When specified, the value must be less than imageGCHighThresholdPercent. Default: 80

volumeStatsAggPeriod is the frequency for calculating and caching volume disk usage for all pods. Default: “1m”

kubeletCgroups is the absolute name of cgroups to isolate the kubelet in Default: “”

systemCgroups is absolute name of cgroups in which to place all non-kernel processes that are not already in a container. Empty for no container. Rolling back the flag requires a reboot. The cgroupRoot must be specified if this field is not empty. Default: “”

cgroupRoot is the root cgroup to use for pods. This is handled by the container runtime on a best effort basis.

cgroupsPerQOS enable QoS based CGroup hierarchy: top level CGroups for QoS classes and all Burstable and BestEffort Pods are brought up under their specific top level QoS CGroup. Default: true

cgroupDriver is the driver kubelet uses to manipulate CGroups on the host (cgroupfs or systemd). Default: “cgroupfs”

cpuManagerPolicy is the name of the policy to use. Requires the CPUManager feature gate to be enabled. Default: “None”

cpuManagerPolicyOptions is a set of key=value which allows to set extra options to fine tune the behaviour of the cpu manager policies. Requires both the “CPUManager” and “CPUManagerPolicyOptions” feature gates to be enabled. Default: nil

cpuManagerReconcilePeriod is the reconciliation period for the CPU Manager. Requires the CPUManager feature gate to be enabled. Default: “10s”

memoryManagerPolicy is the name of the policy to use by memory manager. Requires the MemoryManager feature gate to be enabled. Default: “none”

topologyManagerPolicy is the name of the topology manager policy to use. Valid values include:

• restricted: kubelet only allows pods with optimal NUMA node alignment for requested resources;
• best-effort: kubelet will favor pods with NUMA alignment of CPU and device resources;
• none: kubelet has no knowledge of NUMA alignment of a pod’s CPU and device resources.
• single-numa-node: kubelet only allows pods with a single NUMA alignment of CPU and device resources.

Policies other than “none” require the TopologyManager feature gate to be enabled. Default: “none”

topologyManagerScope represents the scope of topology hint generation that topology manager requests and hint providers generate. Valid values include:

• container: topology policy is applied on a per-container basis.
• pod: topology policy is applied on a per-pod basis.

“pod” scope requires the TopologyManager feature gate to be enabled. Default: “container”

TopologyManagerPolicyOptions is a set of key=value which allows to set extra options to fine tune the behaviour of the topology manager policies. Requires both the “TopologyManager” and “TopologyManagerPolicyOptions” feature gates to be enabled. Default: nil

qosReserved is a set of resource name to percentage pairs that specify the minimum percentage of a resource reserved for exclusive use by the guaranteed QoS tier. Currently supported resources: “memory” Requires the QOSReserved feature gate to be enabled. Default: nil

runtimeRequestTimeout is the timeout for all runtime requests except long running requests - pull, logs, exec and attach. Default: “2m”

hairpinMode specifies how the Kubelet should configure the container bridge for hairpin packets. Setting this flag allows endpoints in a Service to loadbalance back to themselves if they should try to access their own Service. Values:

• “promiscuous-bridge”: make the container bridge promiscuous.
• “hairpin-veth”: set the hairpin flag on container veth interfaces.
• “none”: do nothing.

Generally, one must set —hairpin-mode=hairpin-veth to achieve hairpin NAT, because promiscuous-bridge assumes the existence of a container bridge named cbr0. Default: “promiscuous-bridge”

maxPods is the maximum number of Pods that can run on this Kubelet. The value must be a non-negative integer. Default: 110

podCIDR is the CIDR to use for pod IP addresses, only used in standalone mode. In cluster mode, this is obtained from the control plane. Default: “”

podPidsLimit is the maximum number of PIDs in any pod. Default: -1

resolvConf is the resolver configuration file used as the basis for the container DNS resolution configuration. If set to the empty string, will override the default and effectively disable DNS lookups. Default: “/etc/resolv.conf”

cpuCFSQuota enables CPU CFS quota enforcement for containers that specify CPU limits. Default: true

cpuCFSQuotaPeriod is the CPU CFS quota period value, cpu.cfs_period_us. The value must be between 1 ms and 1 second, inclusive. Requires the CustomCPUCFSQuotaPeriod feature gate to be enabled. Default: “100ms”

nodeStatusMaxImages caps the number of images reported in Node.status.images. The value must be greater than -2. Note: If -1 is specified, no cap will be applied. If 0 is specified, no image is returned. Default: 50

maxOpenFiles is Number of files that can be opened by Kubelet process. The value must be a non-negative number. Default: 1000000

contentType is contentType of requests sent to apiserver. Default: “application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf”

kubeAPIQPS is the QPS to use while talking with kubernetes apiserver. Default: 5

kubeAPIBurst is the burst to allow while talking with kubernetes API server. This field cannot be a negative number. Default: 10

serializeImagePulls when enabled, tells the Kubelet to pull images one at a time. We recommend not changing the default value on nodes that run docker daemon with version < 1.9 or an Aufs storage backend. Issue #10959 has more details. Default: true

evictionHard is a map of signal names to quantities that defines hard eviction thresholds. For example: {“memory.available”: “300Mi”}. To explicitly disable, pass a 0% or 100% threshold on an arbitrary resource. Default: memory.available: “100Mi” nodefs.available: “10%” nodefs.inodesFree: “5%” imagefs.available: “15%”

evictionSoft is a map of signal names to quantities that defines soft eviction thresholds. For example: {“memory.available”: “300Mi”}. Default: nil

evictionSoftGracePeriod is a map of signal names to quantities that defines grace periods for each soft eviction signal. For example: {“memory.available”: “30s”}. Default: nil

evictionPressureTransitionPeriod is the duration for which the kubelet has to wait before transitioning out of an eviction pressure condition. Default: “5m”

evictionMaxPodGracePeriod is the maximum allowed grace period (in seconds) to use when terminating pods in response to a soft eviction threshold being met. This value effectively caps the Pod’s terminationGracePeriodSeconds value during soft evictions. Note: Due to issue #64530, the behavior has a bug where this value currently just overrides the grace period during soft eviction, which can increase the grace period from what is set on the Pod. This bug will be fixed in a future release. Default: 0

evictionMinimumReclaim is a map of signal names to quantities that defines minimum reclaims, which describe the minimum amount of a given resource the kubelet will reclaim when performing a pod eviction while that resource is under pressure. For example: {“imagefs.available”: “2Gi”}. Default: nil

podsPerCore is the maximum number of pods per core. Cannot exceed maxPods. The value must be a non-negative integer. If 0, there is no limit on the number of Pods. Default: 0

enableControllerAttachDetach enables the Attach/Detach controller to manage attachment/detachment of volumes scheduled to this node, and disables kubelet from executing any attach/detach operations. Note: attaching/detaching CSI volumes is not supported by the kubelet, so this option needs to be true for that use case. Default: true

protectKernelDefaults, if true, causes the Kubelet to error if kernel flags are not as it expects. Otherwise the Kubelet will attempt to modify kernel flags to match its expectation. Default: false

makeIPTablesUtilChains, if true, causes the Kubelet ensures a set of iptables rules are present on host. These rules will serve as utility rules for various components, e.g. kube-proxy. The rules will be created based on iptablesMasqueradeBit and iptablesDropBit. Default: true

iptablesMasqueradeBit is the bit of the iptables fwmark space to mark for SNAT. Values must be within the range [0, 31]. Must be different from other mark bits. Warning: Please match the value of the corresponding parameter in kube-proxy. TODO: clean up IPTablesMasqueradeBit in kube-proxy. Default: 14

iptablesDropBit is the bit of the iptables fwmark space to mark for dropping packets. Values must be within the range [0, 31]. Must be different from other mark bits. Default: 15

featureGates is a map of feature names to bools that enable or disable experimental features. This field modifies piecemeal the built-in default values from “k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/features/kube_features.go”. Default: nil

failSwapOn tells the Kubelet to fail to start if swap is enabled on the node. Default: true

memorySwap configures swap memory available to container workloads.

containerLogMaxSize is a quantity defining the maximum size of the container log file before it is rotated. For example: “5Mi” or “256Ki”. Default: “10Mi”

containerLogMaxFiles specifies the maximum number of container log files that can be present for a container. Default: 5

configMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy is a mode in which ConfigMap and Secret managers are running. Valid values include:

• Get: kubelet fetches necessary objects directly from the API server;
• Cache: kubelet uses TTL cache for object fetched from the API server;
• Watch: kubelet uses watches to observe changes to objects that are in its interest.

Default: “Watch”

systemReserved is a set of ResourceName=ResourceQuantity (e.g. cpu=200m,memory=150G) pairs that describe resources reserved for non-kubernetes components. Currently only cpu and memory are supported. See for more detail. Default: nil

kubeReserved is a set of ResourceName=ResourceQuantity (e.g. cpu=200m,memory=150G) pairs that describe resources reserved for kubernetes system components. Currently cpu, memory and local storage for root file system are supported. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/ for more details. Default: nil

The reservedSystemCPUs option specifies the CPU list reserved for the host level system threads and kubernetes related threads. This provide a “static” CPU list rather than the “dynamic” list by systemReserved and kubeReserved. This option does not support systemReservedCgroup or kubeReservedCgroup.

showHiddenMetricsForVersion is the previous version for which you want to show hidden metrics. Only the previous minor version is meaningful, other values will not be allowed. The format is <major>.<minor>, e.g.: 1.16. The purpose of this format is make sure you have the opportunity to notice if the next release hides additional metrics, rather than being surprised when they are permanently removed in the release after that. Default: “”

systemReservedCgroup helps the kubelet identify absolute name of top level CGroup used to enforce systemReserved compute resource reservation for OS system daemons. Refer to doc for more information. Default: “”

kubeReservedCgroup helps the kubelet identify absolute name of top level CGroup used to enforce KubeReserved compute resource reservation for Kubernetes node system daemons. Refer to Node Allocatable doc for more information. Default: “”

This flag specifies the various Node Allocatable enforcements that Kubelet needs to perform. This flag accepts a list of options. Acceptable options are none, pods, system-reserved and kube-reserved. If none is specified, no other options may be specified. When system-reserved is in the list, systemReservedCgroup must be specified. When kube-reserved is in the list, kubeReservedCgroup must be specified. This field is supported only when cgroupsPerQOS is set to true. Refer to for more information. Default: [“pods”]

A comma separated whitelist of unsafe sysctls or sysctl patterns (ending in ). Unsafe sysctl groups are kernel.shm, kernel.msg, kernel.sem, fs.mqueue., and . For example: “kernel.msg,net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu“ Default: []

volumePluginDir is the full path of the directory in which to search for additional third party volume plugins. Default: “/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec/“

providerID, if set, sets the unique ID of the instance that an external provider (i.e. cloudprovider) can use to identify a specific node. Default: “”

kernelMemcgNotification, if set, instructs the kubelet to integrate with the kernel memcg notification for determining if memory eviction thresholds are exceeded rather than polling. Default: false

logging specifies the options of logging. Refer to for more information. Default: Format: text

enableSystemLogHandler enables system logs via web interface host:port/logs/ Default: true

shutdownGracePeriod specifies the total duration that the node should delay the shutdown and total grace period for pod termination during a node shutdown. Default: “0s”

shutdownGracePeriodCriticalPods specifies the duration used to terminate critical pods during a node shutdown. This should be less than shutdownGracePeriod. For example, if shutdownGracePeriod=30s, and shutdownGracePeriodCriticalPods=10s, during a node shutdown the first 20 seconds would be reserved for gracefully terminating normal pods, and the last 10 seconds would be reserved for terminating critical pods. Default: “0s”

shutdownGracePeriodByPodPriority specifies the shutdown grace period for Pods based on their associated priority class value. When a shutdown request is received, the Kubelet will initiate shutdown on all pods running on the node with a grace period that depends on the priority of the pod, and then wait for all pods to exit. Each entry in the array represents the graceful shutdown time a pod with a priority class value that lies in the range of that value and the next higher entry in the list when the node is shutting down. For example, to allow critical pods 10s to shutdown, priority>=10000 pods 20s to shutdown, and all remaining pods 30s to shutdown.

shutdownGracePeriodByPodPriority:

• priority: 2000000000 shutdownGracePeriodSeconds: 10
• priority: 10000 shutdownGracePeriodSeconds: 20
• priority: 0 shutdownGracePeriodSeconds: 30

The time the Kubelet will wait before exiting will at most be the maximum of all shutdownGracePeriodSeconds for each priority class range represented on the node. When all pods have exited or reached their grace periods, the Kubelet will release the shutdown inhibit lock. Requires the GracefulNodeShutdown feature gate to be enabled. This configuration must be empty if either ShutdownGracePeriod or ShutdownGracePeriodCriticalPods is set. Default: nil

reservedMemory specifies a comma-separated list of memory reservations for NUMA nodes. The parameter makes sense only in the context of the memory manager feature. The memory manager will not allocate reserved memory for container workloads. For example, if you have a NUMA0 with 10Gi of memory and the reservedMemory was specified to reserve 1Gi of memory at NUMA0, the memory manager will assume that only 9Gi is available for allocation. You can specify a different amount of NUMA node and memory types. You can omit this parameter at all, but you should be aware that the amount of reserved memory from all NUMA nodes should be equal to the amount of memory specified by the node allocatable. If at least one node allocatable parameter has a non-zero value, you will need to specify at least one NUMA node. Also, avoid specifying:

1. Duplicates, the same NUMA node, and memory type, but with a different value.
2. zero limits for any memory type.
3. NUMAs nodes IDs that do not exist under the machine.
4. memory types except for memory and hugepages-

Default: nil

enableProfilingHandler enables profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/ Default: true

enableDebugFlagsHandler enables flags endpoint via web interface host:port/debug/flags/v Default: true

SeccompDefault enables the use of RuntimeDefault as the default seccomp profile for all workloads. This requires the corresponding SeccompDefault feature gate to be enabled as well. Default: false

MemoryThrottlingFactor specifies the factor multiplied by the memory limit or node allocatable memory when setting the cgroupv2 memory.high value to enforce MemoryQoS. Decreasing this factor will set lower high limit for container cgroups and put heavier reclaim pressure while increasing will put less reclaim pressure. See for more details. Default: 0.8

registerWithTaints are an array of taints to add to a node object when the kubelet registers itself. This only takes effect when registerNode is true and upon the initial registration of the node. Default: nil

registerNode enables automatic registration with the apiserver. Default: true

Tracing specifies the versioned configuration for OpenTelemetry tracing clients. See https://kep.k8s.io/2832 for more details.

LocalStorageCapacityIsolation enables local ephemeral storage isolation feature. The default setting is true. This feature allows users to set request/limit for container’s ephemeral storage and manage it in a similar way as cpu and memory. It also allows setting sizeLimit for emptyDir volume, which will trigger pod eviction if disk usage from the volume exceeds the limit. This feature depends on the capability of detecting correct root file system disk usage. For certain systems, such as kind rootless, if this capability cannot be supported, the feature LocalStorageCapacityIsolation should be disabled. Once disabled, user should not set request/limit for container’s ephemeral storage, or sizeLimit for emptyDir. Default: true

source is the source that we are serializing.

name is the required name of the credential provider. It must match the name of the provider executable as seen by the kubelet. The executable must be in the kubelet’s bin directory (set by the —image-credential-provider-bin-dir flag).

matchImages is a required list of strings used to match against images in order to determine if this provider should be invoked. If one of the strings matches the requested image from the kubelet, the plugin will be invoked and given a chance to provide credentials. Images are expected to contain the registry domain and URL path.

A match exists between an image and a matchImage when all of the below are true:

• Both contain the same number of domain parts and each part matches.
• The URL path of an imageMatch must be a prefix of the target image URL path.

Example values of matchImages:

• 123456789.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
• *.azurecr.io
• gcr.io
• ..registry.io
• registry.io:8080/path

defaultCacheDuration is the default duration the plugin will cache credentials in-memory if a cache duration is not provided in the plugin response. This field is required.

Required input version of the exec CredentialProviderRequest. The returned CredentialProviderResponse MUST use the same encoding version as the input. Current supported values are:

• credentialprovider.kubelet.k8s.io/v1beta1

Arguments to pass to the command when executing it.

Env defines additional environment variables to expose to the process. These are unioned with the host’s environment, as well as variables client-go uses to pass argument to the plugin.

enabled allows anonymous requests to the kubelet server. Requests that are not rejected by another authentication method are treated as anonymous requests. Anonymous requests have a username of system:anonymous, and a group name of system:unauthenticated.

mode is the authorization mode to apply to requests to the kubelet server. Valid values are AlwaysAllow and Webhook. Webhook mode uses the SubjectAccessReview API to determine authorization.

webhook contains settings related to Webhook authorization.

enabled allows bearer token authentication backed by the tokenreviews.authentication.k8s.io API.

cacheTTL enables caching of authentication results

cacheAuthorizedTTL is the duration to cache ‘authorized’ responses from the webhook authorizer.

cacheUnauthorizedTTL is the duration to cache ‘unauthorized’ responses from the webhook authorizer.

clientCAFile is the path to a PEM-encoded certificate bundle. If set, any request presenting a client certificate signed by one of the authorities in the bundle is authenticated with a username corresponding to the CommonName, and groups corresponding to the Organization in the client certificate.

priority is the priority value associated with the shutdown grace period

shutdownGracePeriodSeconds is the shutdown grace period in seconds

[Alpha] JSON contains options for logging format “json”. Only available when the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate is enabled.

[Alpha] SplitStream redirects error messages to stderr while info messages go to stdout, with buffering. The default is to write both to stdout, without buffering. Only available when the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate is enabled.

[Alpha] InfoBufferSize sets the size of the info stream when using split streams. The default is zero, which disables buffering. Only available when the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate is enabled.

Format Flag specifies the structure of log messages. default value of format is text

Maximum number of nanoseconds (i.e. 1s = 1000000000) between log flushes. Ignored if the selected logging backend writes log messages without buffering.

Verbosity is the threshold that determines which log messages are logged. Default is zero which logs only the most important messages. Higher values enable additional messages. Error messages are always logged.

VModule overrides the verbosity threshold for individual files. Only supported for “text” log format.

[Alpha] Options holds additional parameters that are specific to the different logging formats. Only the options for the selected format get used, but all of them get validated. Only available when the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate is enabled.

Endpoint of the collector this component will report traces to. The connection is insecure, and does not currently support TLS. Recommended is unset, and endpoint is the otlp grpc default, localhost:4317.

SamplingRatePerMillion is the number of samples to collect per million spans. Recommended is unset. If unset, sampler respects its parent span’s sampling rate, but otherwise never samples.