calicoctl node

This section describes the calicoctl node commands.

Read the calicoctl Overview for a full list of calicoctl commands.

Note that if you run calicoctl in a container, calicoctl node ... commands will not work (they need access to parts of the host filesystem).

Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl node' commands

Run calicoctl node --help to display the following help menu for the commands.

Manage a Calico node instance. These commands run directly on the compute host
where the node is running, and cover starting the node, checking its status,
and gathering diagnostics.

Usage:
  calicoctl node [command]

Available Commands:
  checksystem Verify the compute host is able to run a Calico node instance
  diags       Gather a diagnostics bundle for a Calico node
  run         Run the Calico node container image
  status      View the current status of a Calico node

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for node

Global Flags:
      --allow-version-mismatch   Allow client and cluster versions mismatch
      --context string           The name of the kubeconfig context to use
  -l, --log-level string         Set the log level (panic, fatal, error, warn, info, debug) (default "panic")

Use "calicoctl node [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Node specific commands

Details on the calicoctl node commands are described in the documents linked below organized by sub command.

• calicoctl node run
• calicoctl node status
• calicoctl node diags
• calicoctl node checksystem