Kbsh - Work Effectively with Multiple Kubernetes Clusters

Contents

• Features
  • No Need to Type kubectl Every Time
  • Switch Contexts/Namespaces on the Fly
  • Show Contexts and Namespaces at Toolbar
  • Aliases and Short Options
  • Highlight Output
  • Upstream Features
• Installation
• Release
• Status
• Acknowledgement

Features

No Need to Type kubectl Every Time

Kbsh accepts the same commands as Kubectl, except you don't need to provide the kubectl prefix.

If you want to run a shell command rather than a Kubectl command, you can add the ! prefix to your command.

Switch Contexts/Namespaces on the Fly

You can provide --context (or -c) option to switch the context, and --namespace (or -n) option to switch the namespace, before executing the command.

Show Contexts and Namespaces at Toolbar

One man names a resource, many have to remember it. It may help to display all contexts and namespaces at the bottom of the shell so that no need to use config get-contexts and get ns.

Aliases and Short Options

Built-in aliases:

• g -> get
• d -> describe
• e -> exec -i -t
• l `` -> ``logs
• lt -> logs --tail
• ld -> logs deploy/

Built-in short options:

• -t -> --tail
• -c -> --context

Although, do not support configuration yet.

Highlight Output

Upstream Features

Kbsh is forked from kube-shell, and keeps all its features.

Installation

pip install kbsh

Release

python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
python3 -m twine upload dist/*

Status

Kbsh has been working great for my personal use case. But given that its aim is to increase productivity and easy of use, it can be improved in a number of ways. If you have suggestions for improvements or new features, or run into a bug please open an issue here.

Acknowledgement

Kbsh is forked from kube-shell.

Kube-shell is inspired by AWS Shell, SAWS and uses awesome Python prompt toolkit