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This documentation is for an older version of Linkerd. You may want the Linkerd 2.15 (current) documentation instead.

CLI

The Linkerd CLI is the primary way to interact with Linkerd. It can install the control plane to your cluster, add the proxy to your service and provide detailed metrics for how your service is performing.

As reference, check out the commands below:

Command Description
authz List authorizations for a resource
check Check the Linkerd installation for potential problems
completion Output shell completion code for the specified shell (bash, zsh or fish)
diagnostics Commands used to diagnose Linkerd components
identity Display the certificate(s) of one or more selected pod(s)
inject Add the Linkerd proxy to a Kubernetes config
install Output Kubernetes configs to install Linkerd
install-cni Output Kubernetes configs to install Linkerd CNI
jaeger jaeger manages the jaeger extension of Linkerd service mesh
multicluster Manages the multicluster setup for Linkerd
profile Output service profile config for Kubernetes
uninject Remove the Linkerd proxy from a Kubernetes config
uninstall Output Kubernetes resources to uninstall Linkerd control plane
upgrade Output Kubernetes configs to upgrade an existing Linkerd control plane
version Print the client and server version information
viz viz manages the linkerd-viz extension of Linkerd service mesh

Global flags

The following flags are available for all linkerd CLI commands:

Flag Usage
--api-addr Override kubeconfig and communicate directly with the control plane at host:port (mostly for testing)
--context Name of the kubeconfig context to use
--help
-h
help for linkerd
--kubeconfig Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests
--linkerd-namespace
-l
Namespace in which Linkerd is installed [$LINKERD_NAMESPACE]
--verbose Turn on debug logging
--as Username to impersonate for Kubernetes operations