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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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### Synopsis


Generate the certificate the apiserver uses to access etcd, and save them into apiserver-etcd-client.crt and apiserver-etcd-client.key files.

If both files already exist, kubeadm skips the generation step and existing files will be used.

```
kubeadm init phase certs apiserver-etcd-client [flags]
```

### Options

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<td colspan="2">--cert-dir string&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Default: "/etc/kubernetes/pki"</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>The path where to save and store the certificates.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--config string</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Path to a kubeadm configuration file.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--dry-run</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Don't apply any changes; just output what would be done.</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">-h, --help</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>help for apiserver-etcd-client</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--kubernetes-version string&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Default: "stable-1"</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>Choose a specific Kubernetes version for the control plane.</p></td>
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### Options inherited from parent commands

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<td colspan="2">--rootfs string</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>The path to the 'real' host root filesystem. This will cause kubeadm to chroot into the provided path.</p></td>
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