kubectl
Kubernetes command-line tool
About this crawler
kubectl is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern kubectl in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block kubectl traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- kubectl
- Pattern
kubectl- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://kubernetes.io/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
kubectl/v1.12.0 (linux/amd64) kubernetes/0ed3388
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow kubectl:
User-agent: kubectl
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} kubectl [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "kubectl") {
return 403;
}
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