Controller Options

The external-secrets binary includes three components: core controller, certcontroller and webook.

Core Controller Flags

The core controller is invoked without a subcommand and can be configured with the following flags:

Name	Type	Default	Description
--client-burst	int	uses rest client default (10)	Maximum Burst allowed to be passed to rest.Client
--client-qps	float32	uses rest client default (5)	QPS configuration to be passed to rest.Client
--concurrent	int	1	The number of concurrent reconciles.
--controller-class	string	default	The controller is instantiated with a specific controller name and filters ES based on this property
--enable-cluster-external-secret-reconciler	boolean	true	Enables the cluster external secret reconciler.
--enable-cluster-store-reconciler	boolean	true	Enables the cluster store reconciler.
--enable-push-secret-reconciler	boolean	true	Enables the push secret reconciler.
--enable-secrets-caching	boolean	false	Enable secrets caching for ALL secrets in the cluster (WARNING: can increase memory usage).
--enable-configmaps-caching	boolean	false	Enable configmaps caching for ALL configmaps in the cluster (WARNING: can increase memory usage).
--enable-managed-secrets-caching	boolean	true	Enable secrets caching for secrets managed by an ExternalSecret.
--enable-flood-gate	boolean	true	Enable flood gate. External secret will be reconciled only if the ClusterStore or Store have an healthy or unknown state.
--enable-extended-metric-labels	boolean	true	Enable recommended kubernetes annotations as labels in metrics.
--enable-leader-election	boolean	false	Enable leader election for controller manager. Enabling this will ensure there is only one active controller manager.
--experimental-enable-aws-session-cache	boolean	false	Enable experimental AWS session cache. External secret will reuse the AWS session without creating a new one on each request.
--help			help for external-secrets
--loglevel	string	info	loglevel to use, one of: debug, info, warn, error, dpanic, panic, fatal
--zap-time-encoding	string	epoch	loglevel to use, one of: epoch, millis, nano, iso8601, rfc3339, rfc3339nano
--metrics-addr	string	:8080	The address the metric endpoint binds to.
--namespace	string	-	watch external secrets scoped in the provided namespace only. ClusterSecretStore can be used but only work if it doesn't reference resources from other namespaces
--store-requeue-interval	duration	5m0s	Default Time duration between reconciling (Cluster)SecretStores

Cert Controller Flags

Name	Type	Default	Descripton
--crd-requeue-interval	duration	5m0s	Time duration between reconciling CRDs for new certs
--enable-leader-election	boolean	false	Enable leader election for controller manager. Enabling this will ensure there is only one active controller manager.
--healthz-addr	string	:8081	The address the health endpoint binds to.
--help			help for certcontroller
--loglevel	string	info	loglevel to use, one of: debug, info, warn, error, dpanic, panic, fatal
--zap-time-encoding	string	epoch	time encoding to use, one of: epoch, millis, nano, iso8601, rfc3339, rfc3339nano
--metrics-addr	string	:8080	The address the metric endpoint binds to.
--secret-name	string	external-secrets-webhook	Secret to store certs for webhook
--secret-namespace	string	default	namespace of the secret to store certs
--service-name	string	external-secrets-webhook	Webhook service name
--service-namespace	string	default	Webhook service namespace

Webhook Flags

Name	Type	Default	Description
--cert-dir	string	/tmp/k8s-webhook-server/serving-certs	path to check for certs
--check-interval	duration	5m0s	certificate check interval
--dns-name	string	localhost	DNS name to validate certificates with
--healthz-addr	string	:8081	The address the health endpoint binds to.
--help			help for webhook
--loglevel	string	info	loglevel to use, one of: debug, info, warn, error, dpanic, panic, fatal
--zap-time-encoding	string	epoch	time encoding to use, one of: epoch, millis, nano, iso8601, rfc3339, rfc3339nano
--lookahead-interval	duration	2160h0m0s (90d)	certificate check interval
--metrics-addr	string	:8080	The address the metric endpoint binds to.
--port	number	10250	Port number that the webhook server will serve.
--tls-ciphers	string		comma separated list of tls ciphers allowed. This does not apply to TLS 1.3 as the ciphers are selected automatically. The order of this list does not give preference to the ciphers, the ordering is done automatically. Full lists of available ciphers can be found at https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#pkg-constants. E.g. 'TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256'
--tls-min-version	string	1.2	minimum version of TLS supported.