• What is Kubevious?
• Intro Video
• Live Demo
• Running Kubevious
• Capabilities

What is Kubevious?

Kubevious is open-source software that provides a usable and highly graphical interface for Kubernetes. Kubevious renders all configurations relevant to the application in one place. That saves a lot of time from operators, eliminating the need for looking up settings and digging within selectors and labels. Kubevious works with any Kubernetes distributions. Kubevious and can be used at any stage of the project.

Kubevious also provides hints to operators to avoid and identify configurational and operational errors.

Intro Video

See the collection of other demo videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTjfcEFrGjqtSGtry4ySUzQ

Live Demo

See our live demo running on a model cluster: https://demo.kubevious.io.

Running Kubevious

Kubevious works with any Kubernetes distribution and runs within the cluster. Deploy using Helm:

kubectl create namespace kubevious

git clone https://github.com/kubevious/deploy.git kubevious-deploy.git
cd kubevious-deploy.git/release/v0.3

helm template kubevious \
    --namespace kubevious \
    > kubevious.yaml

kubectl apply -f kubevious.yaml

Wait for few seconds for deployment to succeed. Setup port forwarding:

kubectl port-forward $(kubectl get pod -l k8s-app=kubevious-ui -n kubevious -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}") 3000:3000 -n kubevious

Access from browser: http://localhost:3000

For more details on installation options visit Deployment Repository.

Capabilities

• Visualizes Cluster In An Application Centric Way
• Detects Configuration Errors
• Identifies Blast Radius
• Enables Full Text Search
• Capacity Planning and Resource Usage Optimization
• Radioactive & Overprivileged Workloads
• Time Machine

Visualizes Cluster In An Application Centric Way

Even a simple Hello World app in Kubernetes produces dozens of objects. It takes a lot of time to fetch application relevant configurations.

Kubeviuos renders the entire Kubernetes cluster configuration in an application-centric graphical way. Kubevious identifies relevant Deployments, ReplicaSets, Pods, Services, Ingresses, Volumes, ConfigMaps, etc. and renders withing the application boxes.

The main screen is rendered using boxes. Every box is expandable (using double-click) and selectable. The right side panel includes properties and configurations associated with each box.

Detects Configuration Errors

Kubernetes follows a detached notion for configuration. It is super easy to have typos and errors when connecting components.

Kubevious identifies many configuration errors, such as misuse of labels, missing ports, and others. The red circle contains the number of errors within the subtree.

Identifies Blast Radius

Configuration in Kubernetes is highly reusable. A small change can cause unintended consequences.

Kubevious identifies shared configurations and also displays other dependent objects. A single glance is enough to identify the cascading effects of a particular change.

Enables Full Text Search

Looking for a particular configuration in Kubernetes haystack takes lots of time.

Kubevious supports full text across across entire cluster.

Capacity Planning and Resource Usage Optimization

Clearly identify how much resources are taken by each container, pod, deployment, daemonset, namespace, etc.

Kubevious renders not only absolute resource request values, but also relative usage per node, namespace and entire cluster. Identify which apps take most resources within the namespace.

Radioactive & Overprivileged Workloads

Granting excessive control to workloads not only increases the risk of being hacked but also affects the stability of nodes and the entire cluster.

Kubevious marks workloads and their corresponding namespaces as radioactive. Specifically, it checks for privileged containers, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC flags, and mounts to sensitive host locations like docker.sock file, etc.

Time Machine

With ever changing configuration it is hard to keep track and identify the source of the problem.

Kubvious allows you to travel back in time and navigate configuration as well as errors. See time machine in action here: https://youtu.be/Zb5ZIJEHONU

Authors

Everyone is welcome to contribute. See CONTRIBUTING for instructions on how to contribute.

License

Kubevious is an open source project licensed under the Apache License.