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## kops validate cluster

Validate a kOps cluster.

### Synopsis

This commands validates the following components:

  1.  All control plane nodes are running and have "Ready" status.
  2.  All worker nodes are running and have "Ready" status.
  3.  All control plane nodes have the expected pods.
  4.  All pods with a critical priority are running and have "Ready" status.

```
kops validate cluster [CLUSTER] [flags]
```

### Examples

```
  # Validate the cluster set as the current context of the kube config.
  # Kops will try for 10 minutes to validate the cluster 3 times.
  kops validate cluster --wait 10m --count 3
```

### Options

```
      --api-server string       Override the API server used when communicating with the cluster kube-apiserver
      --count int               Number of consecutive successful validations required
  -h, --help                    help for cluster
      --interval duration       Time in duration to wait between validation attempts (default 10s)
      --kubeconfig string       Path to the kubeconfig file
      --max-unready-nodes int   The maximum number of non-ready worker nodes tolerated during validation
  -o, --output string           Output format. One of json|yaml|table. (default "table")
      --use-kubeconfig          Use the server endpoint from the local kubeconfig instead of inferring from cluster name
      --wait duration           Amount of time to wait for the cluster to become ready
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --alsologtostderrthreshold severity   logs at or above this threshold go to stderr when -alsologtostderr=true (no effect when -logtostderr=true)
      --config string                       yaml config file (default is $HOME/.kops.yaml)
      --legacy_stderr_threshold_behavior    If true, stderrthreshold is ignored when logtostderr=true (legacy behavior). If false, stderrthreshold is honored even when logtostderr=true
      --name string                         Name of cluster. Overrides KOPS_CLUSTER_NAME environment variable
      --state string                        Location of state storage (kops 'config' file). Overrides KOPS_STATE_STORE environment variable
  -v, --v Level                             number for the log level verbosity
```

### SEE ALSO

* [kops validate](kops_validate.md)	 - Validate a kOps cluster.

