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title: kubectl explain
---
## kubectl explain
Documentation of resources
### Synopsis
Documentation of resources.
Valid resource types include:
* clusters (valid only for federation apiservers)
* componentstatuses (aka 'cs')
* configmaps (aka 'cm')
* daemonsets (aka 'ds')
* deployments (aka 'deploy')
* endpoints (aka 'ep')
* events (aka 'ev')
* horizontalpodautoscalers (aka 'hpa')
* ingresses (aka 'ing')
* jobs
* limitranges (aka 'limits')
* namespaces (aka 'ns')
* networkpolicies
* nodes (aka 'no')
* persistentvolumeclaims (aka 'pvc')
* persistentvolumes (aka 'pv')
* pods (aka 'po')
* podsecuritypolicies (aka 'psp')
* podtemplates
* replicasets (aka 'rs')
* replicationcontrollers (aka 'rc')
* resourcequotas (aka 'quota')
* secrets
* serviceaccounts (aka 'sa')
* services (aka 'svc')
* statefulsets
* storageclasses
* thirdpartyresources
```
kubectl explain RESOURCE
```
### Examples
```
# Get the documentation of the resource and its fields
kubectl explain pods
# Get the documentation of a specific field of a resource
kubectl explain pods.spec.containers
```
### Options
```
--recursive Print the fields of fields (Currently only 1 level deep)
```
### Options inherited from parent commands
```
--alsologtostderr log to standard error as well as files
--as string Username to impersonate for the operation
--certificate-authority string Path to a cert. file for the certificate authority
--client-certificate string Path to a client certificate file for TLS
--client-key string Path to a client key file for TLS
--cluster string The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
--context string The name of the kubeconfig context to use
--insecure-skip-tls-verify If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
--kubeconfig string Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
--log-backtrace-at traceLocation when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace (default :0)
--log-dir string If non-empty, write log files in this directory
--logtostderr log to standard error instead of files
--match-server-version Require server version to match client version
-n, --namespace string If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
--password string Password for basic authentication to the API server
--request-timeout string The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests. (default "0")
-s, --server string The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
--stderrthreshold severity logs at or above this threshold go to stderr (default 2)
--token string Bearer token for authentication to the API server
--user string The name of the kubeconfig user to use
--username string Username for basic authentication to the API server
-v, --v Level log level for V logs
--vmodule moduleSpec comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging
```
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