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/usr/bin/spire-controller-manager

A Kubernetes Controller manager which facilitates the registration of workloads and establishment of federation relationships.

From spire-controller-manager-fips 0.8.1-r0 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running spire-controller-manager --help (exit 0). permalink

Usage of /usr/bin/spire-controller-manager:
  -config string
    	The controller will load its initial configuration from this file. Omit this flag to use the default configuration values. Command-line flags override configuration from this file.
  -expand-env
    	Expand environment variables in SPIRE Controller Manager config file
  -kubeconfig string
    	Paths to a kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.
  -spire-api-socket string
    	The path to the SPIRE API socket (deprecated; use the config file)
  -zap-devel
    	Development Mode defaults(encoder=consoleEncoder,logLevel=Debug,stackTraceLevel=Warn). Production Mode defaults(encoder=jsonEncoder,logLevel=Info,stackTraceLevel=Error) (default true)
  -zap-encoder value
    	Zap log encoding (one of 'json' or 'console')
  -zap-log-level value
    	Zap Level to configure the verbosity of logging. Can be one of 'debug', 'info', 'error', 'panic' or any integer value > 0 which corresponds to custom debug levels of increasing verbosity
  -zap-stacktrace-level value
    	Zap Level at and above which stacktraces are captured (one of 'info', 'error', 'panic').
  -zap-time-encoding value
    	Zap time encoding (one of 'epoch', 'millis', 'nano', 'iso8601', 'rfc3339' or 'rfc3339nano'). Defaults to 'epoch'.
Options (9)
OptionDescriptionSource
-config stringThe controller will load its initial configuration from this file.help
-expand-envExpand environment variables in SPIRE Controller Manager config filehelp
-kubeconfig stringPaths to a kubeconfig.help
-spire-api-socket stringThe path to the SPIRE API socket (deprecated;help
-zap-develDevelopment Mode defaults(encoder=consoleEncoder,logLevel=Debug,stackTraceLevel=Warn).help
-zap-encoder valueZap log encoding (one of 'json' or 'console')help
-zap-log-level valueZap Level to configure the verbosity of logging.help
-zap-stacktrace-level valueZap Level at and above which stacktraces are captured (one of 'info', 'error', 'panic').help
-zap-time-encoding valueZap time encoding (one of 'epoch', 'millis', 'nano', 'iso8601', 'rfc3339' or 'rfc3339nano').help

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