Kubelive

kubectl tool reinvented to be more reactive and interactive

Motivation

I felt that the output from kubectl get pod -w is very cluttered and it is a pain in my ass to understand which pod is running, which pod is exactly terminating so I built kubelive which updates the status of the pods in realtime without cluttering the terminal

Requirements

• node v10 or higher

Installation

npm install -g kubelive

Available commands

• List the pods in the cluster

kubelive get pods

• List the services in the cluster

kubelive get services

• List the replication controllers in the cluster

kubelive get replicationcontrollers

• List the nodes in the cluster

kubelive get nodes

• List resources from a different context

kubelive get <resource> --context <name>

• List the pods in the cluster in a jiffy

kubelive

• Get help on all available commands

kubelive help

• Get the current kubelive version

kubelive --version

Kubelive also supports short names for resources similar to kubectl, the below command will list services

kubectl get svc

Actions

• You can use the ⬅️ and ➡️ keys to switch between available namespaces

• You can use the ⬆️ and ⬇️ keys to select a pod

• You can press the D key to delete the selected pod

• You can press the C key to copy the name of the selected pod

• You can press the Q key to quit the app

What others say

Roadmap

• Add support for pods
• Add support por nodes, services, replication controllers
• Add support for ingress, deployments, replica sets
• Show live logs from pods
• Shell into a running pod
• Add support for filter by name flag
• Add support for refresh rate flag

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License

MIT © Ameer Jhan