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vcluster pro start --help

Note:

vcluster pro start is only available in the enterprise-ready vCluster.Pro offering.

Start a vCluster.Pro instance and connect via port-forwarding

Synopsis​

vcluster pro start [flags]
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Starts a vCluster.Pro instance in your Kubernetes cluster
and then establishes a port-forwarding connection.

Please make sure you meet the following requirements
before running this command:

1. Current kube-context has admin access to the cluster
2. Helm v3.10.0+ must be installed
3. kubectl must be installed

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Flags​

      --chart-name string    The chart name to deploy vCluster.Pro (default "vcluster-control-plane")
--chart-path string The vCluster.Pro chart path to deploy vCluster.Pro
--chart-repo string The chart repo to deploy vCluster.Pro (default "https://charts.loft.sh/")
--context string The kube context to use for installation
--email string The email to use for the installation
-h, --help help for start
--host string Provide a hostname to enable ingress and configure its hostname
--local-port string The local port to bind to if using port-forwarding
--namespace string The namespace to install vCluster.Pro into (default "vcluster-pro")
--no-login If true, vCluster.Pro will not login to a vCluster.Pro instance on start
--no-port-forwarding If true, vCluster.Pro will not do port forwarding after installing it
--no-tunnel If true, vCluster.Pro will not create a loft.host tunnel for this installation
--no-wait If true, vCluster.Pro will not wait after installing it
--password string The password to use for the admin account. (If empty this will be the namespace UID)
--reset If true, an existing loft instance will be deleted before installing vCluster.Pro
--reuse-values Reuse previous vCluster.Pro helm values on upgrade (default true)
--upgrade If true, vCluster.Pro will try to upgrade the release
--values string Path to a file for extra vCluster.Pro helm chart values
--version string The vCluster.Pro version to install (default "latest")

Global & Inherited Flags​

      --debug               Prints the stack trace if an error occurs
--log-output string The log format to use. Can be either plain, raw or json (default "plain")
-s, --silent Run in silent mode and prevents any vcluster log output except panics & fatals