Like mentioned above "--export" is one option to get the manifest corresponding to the kubeernetes objects
But "--export" is considered to be buggy and there is a proposal to deprecate it
Currently the better option is to do "-o yaml" or "-o json" and remove the unnecessary fields
The main difference is "--export" is expected to remove the cluster specific settings (e.g. cluster service IP of a k8s service). But it is found to be inconsistent in this regard