vsphere/

== kn vsphere Plugin

`kn vsphere` manages VMware vSphere sources and bindings.

=== Description

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With this plugin, you can create Knative compatible Event Sources for vSphere events,
and Bindings to easily access the vSphere API.

See the `kn` plugins
https://github.com/knative/client/tree/8b8b56581c63901b8a73734f002d6f372ed83819/docs/plugins[page] for
details on plugin installation and discovery.

=== Usage

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Knative plugin to create Knative compatible Event Sources for VMware vSphere events,
and Bindings to access the vSphere API

Usage:
  kn vsphere [command]

Available Commands:
  auth        Manage vSphere credentials
  binding     Manage vSphere API bindings
  completion  generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  source      Manage vSphere Event Sources
  version     Prints the plugin version

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for kn-vsphere

Use "kn vsphere [command] --help" for more information about a command.

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==== `kn vsphere auth`

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Manage vSphere credentials

Usage:
  kn vsphere auth [command]

Available Commands:
  create      Create vSphere credentials
  delete      Delete vSphere credentials

Flags:
  -h, --help               help for auth
  -n, --namespace string   namespace to use (default namespace if omitted)

Use "kn vsphere auth [command] --help" for more information about a command.

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==== `kn vsphere binding`

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Manage vSphere API bindings

Usage:
  kn vsphere binding [command]

Available Commands:
  create      Create a vSphere binding to call into the vSphere API
  delete      Delete a vSphere binding
  list        List vSphere bindings

Flags:
  -h, --help               help for binding
  -n, --namespace string   namespace to use (default namespace if omitted)

Use "kn vsphere binding [command] --help" for more information about a command.

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==== `kn vsphere source`

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Manage vSphere Event Sources

Usage:
  kn vsphere source [command]

Available Commands:
  create      Create a vSphere source to react to vSphere events
  delete      Delete a vSphere source
  list        List vSphere sources

Flags:
  -h, --help               help for source
  -n, --namespace string   namespace to use (default namespace if omitted)

Use "kn vsphere source [command] --help" for more information about a command.

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==== `kn vsphere version`

This command prints out the version of this plugin and all extra information which might help, for example when creating bug reports.

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Prints the plugin version

Usage:
  kn vsphere version [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for version
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=== Examples

==== Authenticating with vSphere

In order to connect to the vSphere event stream, the controller uses vSphere credentials which are created as a
`secret` in Kubernetes.

.Example create login credentials in the default namespace
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$ kn vsphere auth create --username jane-doe --password s3cr3t --name vsphere-credentials
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This will create a Secret `vsphere-credentials` in the `default` namespace that can be referred by a `VSphereSource`
or a `VSphereBinding`.

.Example create login credentials in the default namespace, verify the credentials and skip TLS errors, before creating the secret
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$ kn vsphere auth create --username jane-doe --password s3cr3t --name vsphere-credentials --verify-url https://myvc.corp.local --verify-insecure
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This will create a Secret `vsphere-credentials` in the `default` namespace that can be referred by a `VSphereSource`
or a `VSphereBinding`.

==== Create a basic VSphereSource

.Example Source creation in the default namespace
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$ kn vsphere source create --name vc-01-source --vc-address https://vc-01.local --skip-tls-verify --secret-ref
vsphere-credentials --sink-uri http://where.to.send.stuff
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This will create a `VSphereSource` named `vc-01-source` with the specified credentials to connect to vSphere and send vSphere events to
the specified URI.

==== Create a basic VSphereBinding

.Example Binding creation in the default namespace
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$ kn vsphere binding create --name vc-01-binding --vc-address https://vc-01.local --skip-tls-verify --secret-ref
vsphere-credentials --subject-api-version app/v1 --subject-kind Deployment --subject-name my-simple-app
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==== Print out the version of this plugin

The `kn vsphere version` command helps you to identify the version of this plugin.

.Example version output
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$ kn vsphere version

Version:      v0.27-next
Build Date:   2021-12-13T14:19:52Z
Git Revision: b55382f40ad1c7693e3a3a8593960d0624e45e0d

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As you can see it prints out the version (or a generated timestamp when this plugin is built from a non-released commit),
the date when the plugin has been built and the actual Git revision.