To quickly view available command line flags execute nfd-master -help
. In a docker container:
docker run gcr.io/k8s-staging-nfd/node-feature-discovery:master nfd-master -help
Print usage and exit.
Print version and exit.
The -feature-gates
flag is used to enable or disable non GA features. The list of available feature gates can be found in the feature gates documentation.
Example:
nfd-master -feature-gates NodeFeatureGroupAPI=true
The -prune
flag is a sub-command like option for cleaning up the cluster. It causes nfd-master to remove all NFD related labels, annotations and extended resources from all Node objects of the cluster and exit.
DEPRECATED: Will be removed in NFD v0.17 and replaced by -port
.
The -metrics
flag specifies the port on which to expose Prometheus metrics. Setting this to 0 disables the metrics server on nfd-master.
Default: 8081
Example:
nfd-master -metrics=12345
The -instance
flag makes it possible to run multiple NFD deployments in parallel. In practice, it separates the node annotations between deployments so that each of them can store metadata independently. The instance name must start and end with an alphanumeric character and may only contain alphanumeric characters, -
, _
or .
.
Default: empty
Example:
nfd-master -instance=network
The -enable-leader-election
flag enables leader election for NFD-Master. It is advised to turn on this flag when running more than one instance of NFD-Master.
Default: false
nfd-master -enable-leader-election
The -enable-taints
flag enables/disables node tainting feature of NFD.
Default: false
Example:
nfd-master -enable-taints=true
The -no-publish
flag disables updates to the Node objects in the Kubernetes API server, making a "dry-run" flag for nfd-master. No Labels, Annotations or ExtendedResources of nodes are updated.
Default: false
Example:
nfd-master -no-publish
The -label-whitelist
specifies a regular expression for filtering feature labels based on their name. Each label must match against the given regular expression or it will not be published.
NOTE: The regular expression is only matches against the "basename" part of the label, i.e. to the part of the name after ‘/'. The label namespace is omitted.
Default: empty
Example:
nfd-master -label-whitelist='.*cpuid\.'
The -extra-label-ns
flag specifies a comma-separated list of allowed feature label namespaces. This option can be used to allow other vendor or application specific namespaces for custom labels from the local and custom feature sources, even though these labels were denied using the deny-label-ns
flag.
Default: empty
Example:
nfd-master -extra-label-ns=vendor-1.com,vendor-2.io
The -deny-label-ns
flag specifies a comma-separated list of excluded label namespaces. By default, nfd-master allows creating labels in all namespaces, excluding kubernetes.io
namespace and its sub-namespaces (i.e. *.kubernetes.io
). However, you should note that kubernetes.io
and its sub-namespaces are always denied. For example, nfd-master -deny-label-ns=""
would still disallow kubernetes.io
and *.kubernetes.io
. This option can be used to exclude some vendors or application specific namespaces. Note that the namespaces feature.node.kubernetes.io
and profile.node.kubernetes.io
and their sub-namespaces are always allowed and cannot be denied.
Default: empty
Example:
nfd-master -deny-label-ns=*.vendor.com,vendor-2.io
The -config
flag specifies the path of the nfd-master configuration file to use.
Default: /etc/kubernetes/node-feature-discovery/nfd-master.conf
Example:
nfd-master -config=/opt/nfd/master.conf
The -options
flag may be used to specify and override configuration file options directly from the command line. The required format is the same as in the config file i.e. JSON or YAML. Configuration options specified via this flag will override those from the configuration file:
Default: empty
Example:
nfd-master -options='{"noPublish": true}'
The -nfd-api-parallelism
flag can be used to specify the maximum number of concurrent node updates.
Default: 10
Example:
nfd-master -nfd-api-parallelism=1
The following logging-related flags are inherited from the klog package.
If true, adds the file directory to the header of the log messages.
Default: false
Log to standard error as well as files.
Default: false
When logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace.
Default: empty
If non-empty, write log files in this directory.
Default: empty
If non-empty, use this log file.
Default: empty
Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited.
Default: 1800
Log to standard error instead of files
Default: true
If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages.
Default: false
If true, avoid headers when opening log files.
Default: false
Logs at or above this threshold go to stderr.
Default: 2
Number for the log level verbosity.
Default: 0
Comma-separated list of pattern=N
settings for file-filtered logging.
Default: empty
The -resync-period
flag specifies the NFD API controller resync period. The resync means nfd-master replaying all NodeFeature and NodeFeatureRule objects, thus effectively re-syncing all nodes in the cluster (i.e. ensuring labels, annotations, extended resources and taints are in place).
Default: 1 hour.
Example:
nfd-master -resync-period=2h