calicoctl version

This section describes the calicoctl version command.

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

Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl version' commands

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

Display version information for calicoctl, and for the cluster when it can be reached.

Usage:
  calicoctl version [flags]

Examples:
  # Show client and cluster versions.
  calicoctl version

  # Show only the client version.
  calicoctl version --client

Flags:
      --client          Display the client version only.
  -c, --config string   Path to the file containing connection configuration.
  -h, --help            help for version
      --poll string     Poll for changes to the cluster information at a frequency specified using POLL duration.

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")

Example

Use calicoctl version to obtain the following data.

Field	Value
Client Version	Version of calicoctl
Build date	Time and date of calicoctl build
Git commit	Git commit number of calicoctl
Cluster Version*	Version number of calico/node and Calico
Cluster Type*	Other details about the cluster

* To obtain these values, you must configure calicoctl to connect to your datastore.

See also

• Installing calicoctl.