kubernetes/kops · error

--name is required

Error message

--name is required

What it means

The distrust keypair command's argument validator found no cluster name: rootCommand.ClusterName(true) returned empty because neither --name nor a configured default cluster is available. The command needs to know which cluster's keystore to act on.

Source

Thrown at cmd/kops/distrust_keypair.go:82

type DistrustKeypairOptions struct {
	ClusterName string
	Keyset      string
	KeypairIDs  []string
}

func NewCmdDistrustKeypair(f *util.Factory, out io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
	options := &DistrustKeypairOptions{}

	cmd := &cobra.Command{
		Use:     "keypair {KEYSET [ID]... | all}",
		Short:   distrustKeypairShort,
		Long:    distrustKeypairLong,
		Example: distrustKeypairExample,
		Args: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
			options.ClusterName = rootCommand.ClusterName(true)
			if options.ClusterName == "" {
				return fmt.Errorf("--name is required")
			}

			if len(args) == 0 {
				return fmt.Errorf("must specify name of keyset to distrust keypair in")
			}
			options.Keyset = args[0]

			if len(args) > 1 {
				if options.Keyset == "all" {
					return fmt.Errorf("cannot specify ID with \"all\"")
				}

				options.KeypairIDs = args[1:]
			}

			return nil
		},
		ValidArgsFunction: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string, toComplete string) ([]string, cobra.ShellCompDirective) {

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Solutions

1. Pass --name <clustername> to the command
2. Configure a default cluster name for the kops CLI

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at cmd/kops/distrust_keypair.go:82 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of kubernetes/kops@4c8573c808 (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a6218f4faa968ded. Report an issue: GitHub.