calicoctl node

This section describes the calicoctl node commands.

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

Note that if you run calicoctl in a container, calicoctl node ... commands will not work (they need access to parts of the host filesystem).

Displaying the help text for ‘calicoctl node’ commands

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

  1. Usage:
  2.   calicoctl node <command> [<args>...]
  4.     run          Run the Calico node container image
  5.     status       View the current status of a Calico node.
  6.     diags        Gather a diagnostics bundle for a Calico node.
  7.     checksystem  Verify the compute host is able to run a Calico node instance.
  9. Options:
  10.   -h --help      Show this screen.
  12. Description:
  13.   Node specific commands for calicoctl.  These commands must be run directly on
  14.   the compute host running the Calico node instance.
  16.   See 'calicoctl node <command> --help' to read about a specific subcommand.

Node specific commands

Details on the calicoctl node commands are described in the documents linked below organized by sub command.