Experimental features

Enable experimental features with:

export KOPS_FEATURE_FLAGS=

The following experimental features are currently available:

  • +EnableExternalDNS - Enable external-dns with default settings (ingress sources only).
  • +VPCSkipEnableDNSSupport - Enables creation of a VPC that does not need DNSSupport enabled.
  • +EnableSeparateConfigBase - Allow a config-base that is different from the state store.
  • +SpecOverrideFlag - Allow setting spec values on kops create.
  • +ExperimentalClusterDNS - Turns off validation of the kubelet cluster dns flag.
  • +GoogleCloudBucketAcl - Enables setting the ACL on the state store bucket when using GCS
  • +KeepLaunchConfigurations - Prevents garbage collection of old launch configurations
  • +Spotinst - Enables the use of the Spot integration
  • +SpotinstOcean - Enables the use of the Spot Ocean integration
  • +SpotinstHybrid - Toggles between hybrid and full instance group implementations
  • -SpotinstController - Toggles the installation of the Spot controller addon off
  • +SkipEtcdVersionCheck - Bypasses the check that etcd-manager is using a supported etcd version
  • +TerraformJSON - Produce kubernetes.tf.json file instead of writing HCLv2 syntax. Can be consumed by terraform 0.12+
  • +VFSVaultSupport - Enables setting Vault as secret/keystore
  • +APIServerNodes - Enables support for dedicated API server nodes