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

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Generate and print a bootstrap token, but do not create it on the server

### Synopsis



This command will print out a randomly-generated bootstrap token that can be used with
the "init" and "join" commands.

You don't have to use this command in order to generate a token. You can do so
yourself as long as it is in the format "[a-z0-9]{6}.[a-z0-9]{16}". This
command is provided for convenience to generate tokens in the given format.

You can also use "kubeadm init" without specifying a token and it will
generate and print one for you.


```
kubeadm token generate [flags]
```

### Options

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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 generate</p></td>
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### Options inherited from parent commands

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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>Whether to enable dry-run mode or not</p></td>
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<td colspan="2">--kubeconfig string&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Default: "/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf"</td>
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<td></td><td style="line-height: 130%; word-wrap: break-word;"><p>The kubeconfig file to use when talking to the cluster. If the flag is not set, a set of standard locations can be searched for an existing kubeconfig file.</p></td>
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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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