frank@kubemaster:~$ mkdir kubectl-convert
frank@kubemaster:~$ cd kubectl-convert/

curl -LO “https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl-convert”

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 138 100 138 0 0 896 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 896
100 55.0M 100 55.0M 0 0 28.6M 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 –:–:– 38.4M

curl -LO “https://dl.k8s.io/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl-convert.sha256”

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 138 100 138 0 0 901 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 901 100 64 100 64 0 0 163 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 163

echo “$(cat kubectl-convert.sha256) kubectl-convert” | sha256sum –check

kubectl-convert: OK

sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl-convert /usr/local/bin/kubectl-convert



frank@kubemaster:~/kubectl-convert$ 
frank@kubemaster:~/kubectl-convert$ kubectl convert --help
Convert config files between different API versions. Both YAML and JSON formats are accepted.

 The command takes filename, directory, or URL as input, and convert it into format of version specified by --output-version flag. If target version is not specified or not supported, convert to latest version.

 The default output will be printed to stdout in YAML format. One can use -o option to change to output destination.

Usage:
  convert -f FILENAME

Examples:
  # Convert 'pod.yaml' to latest version and print to stdout.
  kubectl convert -f pod.yaml

  # Convert the live state of the resource specified by 'pod.yaml' to the latest version
  # and print to stdout in JSON format.
  kubectl convert -f pod.yaml --local -o json

  # Convert all files under current directory to latest version and create them all.
  kubectl convert -f . | kubectl create -f -

Flags:
      --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)
      --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.
      --cache-dir string               Default cache directory (default "/home/frank/.kube/cache")
      --certificate-authority string   Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
      --client-certificate string      Path to a client certificate file for TLS
      --client-key string              Path to a client key file for TLS
      --cluster string                 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
      --context string                 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
      --disable-compression            If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
  -f, --filename strings               Filename, directory, or URL to files to need to get converted.
  -h, --help                           help for convert
      --insecure-skip-tls-verify       If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
      --kubeconfig string              Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
  -k, --kustomize string               Process the kustomization directory. This flag can't be used together with -f or -R.
      --local                          If true, convert will NOT try to contact api-server but run locally. (default true)
      --log-flush-frequency duration   Maximum number of seconds between log flushes (default 5s)
      --match-server-version           Require server version to match client version
  -n, --namespace string               If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
  -o, --output string                  Output format. One of: (json, yaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file). (default "yaml")
      --output-version string          Output the formatted object with the given group version (for ex: 'extensions/v1beta1').
      --password string                Password for basic authentication to the API server
  -R, --recursive                      Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
      --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
      --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].
      --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
      --username string                Username for basic authentication to the API server
  -v, --v Level                        number for the log level verbosity
      --validate string[="strict"]     Must be one of: strict (or true), warn, ignore (or false).
                                                "true" or "strict" will use a schema to validate the input and fail the request if invalid. It will perform server side validation if ServerSideFieldValidation is enabled on the api-server, but will fall back to less reliable client-side validation if not.
                                                "warn" will warn about unknown or duplicate fields without blocking the request if server-side field validation is enabled on the API server, and behave as "ignore" otherwise.
                                                "false" or "ignore" will not perform any schema validation, silently dropping any unknown or duplicate fields. (default "strict")
      --vmodule moduleSpec             comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging (only works for the default text log format)