Kubee

Sweet Kubernetes CLI Helper

Install

npm install -g @reddot/kubee

Usage

λ kubee
Usage: kubee [options] [command]

Options:
  -V, --version  output the version number
  -h, --help     output usage information

Commands:
  config|cfg     config management
  context|ctx    context management
  info           kubernetes info
  namespace|ns   namespace management
  account|acc    account management
  help [cmd]     display help for [cmd]

Info

Shows the current default context and namespace and available namespaces.

kubee info

Accounts

You can manage service accounts for token authentication using kubee.

Create

You can create a new serviceaccount and associate rolebindings and clusterrolebindings to it.

kubee account create

Export

You can export a serviceaccount to a kubeconfig file.

kubee account export file.yml

Configs

KUBECONFIG value

Kubee can generate a list of files from ~/.kube/ directory that matches the pattern config*. This can be used to automatically set $KUBECONFIG variable on your .bashrc script.

kubee config env

/home/wolfulus/.kube/config:/home/wolfulus/.kube/config/config-dev-cluster

# append to `.bashrc` file
export KUBECONFIG=$(kubee config env)

On Windows you can use --save option to update your %KUBECONFIG% environment variable. Note that it only takes effect after you restart your terminal or use refreshenv if available.

kubee config env --save

Import

You can import kubeconfig yaml files to your ~/.kube/ directory.

kubee config import somefile.yaml

Remove

You can remove kubeconfig yaml files from your ~/.kube/ directory. The wizard will show the contents of each file so you can choose wisely.

kubee config remove

View

You can view the contents of each kubeconfig file (contexts, clusters, users).

kubee config view

Context Switch

You can see the current context and select which one to use when kubetl runs.

kubee ctx

Namespace Switch

You can see the current namespace in the current context and select which one to use when kubetl runs.

kubee ns

Related Work

This is heavily inspired by ahmetb's kubectx and kubens projects.

• kubectx
• kubens

Others

• kubectx (nodejs)
• kubectx (rust)