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title: Customizing control plane configuration with kubeadm
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The kubeadm `ClusterConfiguration` object exposes the field `extraArgs` that can override the default flags passed to control plane
components such as the APIServer, ControllerManager and Scheduler. The components are defined using the following fields:

- `apiServer`
- `controllerManager`
- `scheduler`

The `extraArgs` field consist of `key: value` pairs. To override a flag for a control plane component:

1.  Add the appropriate fields to your configuration.
2.  Add the flags to override to the field.

For more details on each field in the configuration you can navigate to our
[API reference pages](https://godoc.org/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm#ClusterConfiguration).

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## APIServer flags

For details, see the [reference documentation for kube-apiserver](/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-apiserver/).

Example usage:
```yaml
apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterConfiguration
kubernetesVersion: v1.13.0
metadata:
  name: 1.13-sample
apiServer:
  extraArgs:
    advertise-address: 192.168.0.103
    anonymous-auth: false
    enable-admission-plugins: AlwaysPullImages,DefaultStorageClass
    audit-log-path: /home/johndoe/audit.log
```

## ControllerManager flags

For details, see the [reference documentation for kube-controller-manager](/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-controller-manager/).

Example usage:
```yaml
apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterConfiguration
kubernetesVersion: v1.13.0
metadata:
  name: 1.13-sample
controllerManager:
  extraArgs:
    cluster-signing-key-file: /home/johndoe/keys/ca.key
    bind-address: 0.0.0.0
    deployment-controller-sync-period: 50
```

## Scheduler flags

For details, see the [reference documentation for kube-scheduler](/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-scheduler/).

Example usage:
```yaml
apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterConfiguration
kubernetesVersion: v1.13.0
metadata:
  name: 1.13-sample
scheduler:
  extraArgs:
    address: 0.0.0.0
    config: /home/johndoe/schedconfig.yaml
    kubeconfig: /home/johndoe/kubeconfig.yaml
```

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