---
name: "kubectl-kustomize"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kubectl"
version: "1.37.2-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kubectl-kustomize"
---

# kubectl-kustomize(1)

Build a kustomization target from a directory or URL

Eric Paris Jan 2015

## NAME

kubectl kustomize - Build a kustomization target from a directory or URL

## SYNOPSIS

**kubectl kustomize** \[OPTIONS\]

## DESCRIPTION

Build a set of KRM resources using a 'kustomization.yaml' file. The DIR argument must be a path to a directory containing 'kustomization.yaml', or a git repository URL with a path suffix specifying same with respect to the repository root. If DIR is omitted, '.' is assumed.

## OPTIONS

**--as-current-user**=false\
 	use the uid and gid of the command executor to run the function in the container

**--enable-alpha-plugins**=false\
 	enable kustomize plugins

**--enable-helm**=false\
 	Enable use of the Helm chart inflator generator.

**--enable-managedby-label**=false\
 	enable adding app.kubernetes.io/managed-by

**-e**, **--env**=\[\]\
 	a list of environment variables to be used by functions

**--helm-api-versions**=\[\]\
 	Kubernetes api versions used by Helm for Capabilities.APIVersions

**--helm-command**="helm"\
 	helm command (path to executable)

**--helm-debug**=false\
 	Enable debug output from the Helm chart inflator generator.

**--helm-kube-version**=""\
 	Kubernetes version used by Helm for Capabilities.KubeVersion

**--load-restrictor**="LoadRestrictionsRootOnly"\
 	if set to 'LoadRestrictionsNone', local kustomizations may load files from outside their root. This does, however, break the relocatability of the kustomization.

**--mount**=\[\]\
 	a list of storage options read from the filesystem

**--network**=false\
 	enable network access for functions that declare it

**--network-name**="bridge"\
 	the docker network to run the container in

**-o**, **--output**=""\
 	If specified, write output to this path.

**--reorder**="legacy"\
 	Reorder the resources just before output. Use 'legacy' to apply a legacy reordering (Namespaces first, Webhooks last, etc). Use 'none' to suppress a final reordering.

## OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

**--as**=""\
 	Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.

**--as-group**=\[\]\
 	Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

**--as-uid**=""\
 	UID to impersonate for the operation.

**--as-user-extra**=\[\]\
 	User extras to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.

**--cache-dir**="/home/username/.kube/cache"\
 	Default cache directory

**--certificate-authority**=""\
 	Path to a cert file for the certificate authority

**--client-certificate**=""\
 	Path to a client certificate file for TLS

**--client-key**=""\
 	Path to a client key file for TLS

**--cluster**=""\
 	The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

**--context**=""\
 	The name of the kubeconfig context to use

**--disable-compression**=false\
 	If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server

**--insecure-skip-tls-verify**=false\
 	If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

**--kubeconfig**=""\
 	Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.

**--kuberc**=""\
 	Path to the kuberc file to use for preferences. This can be disabled by exporting KUBECTL\_KUBERC=false feature gate or turning off the feature KUBERC=off.

**--match-server-version**=false\
 	Require server version to match client version

**-n**, **--namespace**=""\
 	If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

**--password**=""\
 	Password for basic authentication to the API server

**--profile**="none"\
 	Name of profile to capture. One of (none\|cpu\|heap\|goroutine\|threadcreate\|block\|mutex\|trace)

**--profile-output**="profile.pprof"\
 	Name of the file to write the profile to

**--proxy-url**=""\
 	Proxy URL to use for requests to the API server

**--request-timeout**="0"\
 	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.

**-s**, **--server**=""\
 	The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

**--tls-server-name**=""\
 	Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used

**--token**=""\
 	Bearer token for authentication to the API server

**--user**=""\
 	The name of the kubeconfig user to use

**--username**=""\
 	Username for basic authentication to the API server

**--version**=false\
 	\--version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version

**--warnings-as-errors**=false\
 	Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code

## EXAMPLE

```
  # Build the current working directory
  kubectl kustomize
  # Build some shared configuration directory
  kubectl kustomize /home/config/production
  # Build from github
  kubectl kustomize https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize.git/examples/helloWorld?ref=v1.0.6
```

## SEE ALSO

**[kubectl(1)](/kubectl/1.md)**,

## HISTORY

January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since!