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datumctl apply set-last-applied

Set the last-applied-configuration annotation on a live object to match the contents of a file

Set the latest last-applied-configuration annotations by setting it to match the contents of a file. This results in the last-applied-configuration being updated as though ‘kubectl apply -f’ was run, without updating any other parts of the object.

datumctl apply set-last-applied -f FILENAME
# Set the last-applied-configuration of a resource to match the contents of a file
kubectl apply set-last-applied -f deploy.yaml
# Execute set-last-applied against each configuration file in a directory
kubectl apply set-last-applied -f path/
# Set the last-applied-configuration of a resource to match the contents of a file; will create the annotation if it does not already exist
kubectl apply set-last-applied -f deploy.yaml --create-annotation=true
--allow-missing-template-keys If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats. (default true)
--create-annotation Will create 'last-applied-configuration' annotations if current objects doesn't have one
--dry-run string[="unchanged"] Must be "none", "server", or "client". If client strategy, only print the object that would be sent, without sending it. If server strategy, submit server-side request without persisting the resource. (default "none")
-f, --filename strings Filename, directory, or URL to files that contains the last-applied-configuration annotations
-h, --help help for set-last-applied
-o, --output string Output format. One of: (json, yaml, kyaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).
--show-managed-fields If true, keep the managedFields when printing objects in JSON or YAML format.
--template string Template string or path to template file to use when -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang templates [http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview].
--as string Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.
--as-group stringArray Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
--as-uid string UID to impersonate for the operation.
--as-user-extra stringArray User extras to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.
--certificate-authority string Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
--disable-compression If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
--insecure-skip-tls-verify If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
--log-flush-frequency duration Maximum number of seconds between log flushes (default 5s)
-n, --namespace string If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
--organization string organization name
--platform-wide access the platform root instead of a project or organization control plane
--project string project name
--request-timeout string The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests. (default "0")
-s, --server string The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
--tls-server-name string Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
--token string Bearer token for authentication to the API server
--user string The name of the kubeconfig user to use
-v, --v Level number for the log level verbosity
--vmodule moduleSpec comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging (only works for the default text log format)
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