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Certificate Management with kubeadm — The cluster CA key and certificate will be loaded from this local directory

certificatesDir: "/etc/kubernetes/pki" Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text Make sure that these settings match the desired target cluster settings.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). certificatesDir: "/etc/kubernetes/pki" Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text Make sure that these settings match the desired target cluster settings. To see the settings of an existing cluster use: ``` kubectl get cm kubeadm-config -n kube-system -o=jsonpath="" Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text The following example will generate a kubeconfig file with credentials valid for 24 hours for a new user `johndoe` that is part of the `appdevs` group: ``` kubeadm kubeconfig user --config example.yaml --org appdevs --client-name johndoe --validity-period 24h Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text The following example will generate a kubeconfig file with administrator credentials valid for 1 week: ``` kubeadm kubeconfig user --config example.yaml --client-name admin --validity-period 168h Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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