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Calico Open Source 3.33 (latest) documentation

calicoctl patch

This sections describes the calicoctl patch command.

Read the calicoctl command line interface user reference for a full list of calicoctl commands.

Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl patch' command​

Run calicoctl patch --help to display the following help menu for the command.

Patch a single existing Calico resource in place. Use patch to change specific
fields without supplying the whole resource, as you'd have to with replace.

Usage:
  calicoctl patch KIND NAME [flags]

Examples:
  # Set a route reflector cluster ID on a node.
  calicoctl patch node node-0 --patch '{"spec":{"bgp":{"routeReflectorClusterID":"224.0.0.1"}}}'

Flags:
  -c, --config string      Path to the file containing connection configuration in YAML or JSON format. (default "/etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg")
  -h, --help               help for patch
  -n, --namespace string   Namespace of the resource.
  -p, --patch string       Spec to use to patch the resource.
  -t, --type string        Format of patch type: strategic, json, or merge. (default "strategic")

Global Flags:
      --allow-version-mismatch   Allow client and cluster versions mismatch
      --context string           The name of the kubeconfig context to use
  -l, --log-level string         Set the log level (panic, fatal, error, warn, info, debug) (default "panic")

Examples​

  1. Patch an IP Pool to enable outgoing NAT:

    calicoctl patch ippool ippool1 -p '{"spec":{"natOutgoing": true}}'

    Results indicate that a resource was successfully patched:

    Successfully patched 1 'ipPool' resource

Options​

  -p, --patch string       Spec to use to patch the resource.
  -t, --type string        Format of patch type: strategic, json, or merge. (default "strategic")
  -n, --namespace string   Namespace of the resource.

General options​

  -c, --config string      Path to the file containing connection configuration in YAML or JSON format. (default "/etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg")

See also​