KDash - A fast and simple dashboard for Kubernetes

Note: This is a beta version and is work in progress

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A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust

Features & Todos

• CLI Info
• Resource Watch (configurable polling interval with -p flag)
  • [x] Pods
  • [x] Nodes
  • [x] Namespace
  • [x] Services
  • [x] Containers
  • [x] ConfigMaps
  • [x] StatefulSets
  • [x] ReplicaSets
  • [x] Deployments
• Describe resources
  • [x] Pods
  • [x] Nodes
  • [ ] Services
  • [ ] Deployments
  • [ ] ConfigMaps
  • [ ] StatefulSets
  • [ ] ReplicaSets
  • [x] select/copy output
  • [ ] as YAML
• Stream logs/events
  • [x] Containers
  • [ ] Services
  • [ ] Deployments
  • [ ] StatefulSets
  • [x] select/copy output
• Context
  • [x] Context info
  • [x] Node metrics
  • [x] Context watch
  • [x] Change namespace?
  • [ ] Context switch
• [x] Resources utilizations
• [x] Dark/Light themes
• [ ] Custom keymap
• [ ] Custom theme
• [ ] Tests, a lot of them :)

Installation

Beta release binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows are available on the releases page

If you have Cargo installed then you install KDash from crates.io

cargo install kdash

You can also clone the repo and run cargo run to build and run the app

Note:: On linux you might need to have package xorg-dev (Debian/Ubuntu) or xorg-x11-server-devel (Fedora) or equivalent installed for the copy to clipboard features to work

USAGE:

Press ? while running the app to see keybindings

FLAGS:

• -h, --help: Prints help information
• -V, --version: Prints version information
• -t, --tick-rate <tick-rate>: Set the tick rate (milliseconds): the lower the number the higher the FPS.
• -p, --poll-rate <poll-rate>: Set the network call polling rate (milliseconds, should be multiples of tick-rate): the lower the number the higher the network calls.

Screenshots

Overview screen

Container logs screen (light theme)

Pod describe screen (light theme)

Contexts screen

Utilization screen

Libraries used

• tui-rs
• clap
• tokio
• duct.rs
• kube-rs
• serde
• kubectl-view-allocations
• rust-clipboard

How does this compare to K9S?

K9S is a beast compared to this as it offers way more features including CRUD actions.

KDash only offers a view of most used resources with a focus on speed and UX. Hence the UI/UX is designed to be more user friendly and easier to navigate with contextual help everywhere and a tab system to switch between different resources easily.

At least for now there are no plans to add CRUD for resources

Licence

MIT

Authors

• Deepu K Sasidharan