KDash is a terminal-based Kubernetes dashboard written in Rust. It provides a responsive interface for examining cluster resources, monitoring workloads and investigating operational problems directly from the command line.
The application organises Kubernetes information into interactive views covering nodes, pods, workloads, namespaces and resource utilisation. Users can navigate between resources, inspect configuration details and follow container logs without switching between multiple terminal commands.
KDash also supports administrative operations such as editing resources, restarting workloads and establishing port-forwarding sessions. This makes it useful for everyday cluster management as well as monitoring and troubleshooting.
Its keyboard-driven interface can be customised with different colour themes, keybindings and display preferences.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Interactive terminal dashboard for Kubernetes clusters.
- Browse pods, nodes, namespaces, deployments and other Kubernetes resources.
- Display CPU and memory utilisation for cluster resources.
- Inspect resource descriptions and YAML manifests.
- Stream container logs and inspect logs from previous container instances.
- Aggregate logs from pods belonging to the same workload.
- Provides troubleshooting views for pods, persistent volume claims and ReplicaSets.
- Edit and delete Kubernetes resources from the interface.
- Restart and scale workloads, with confirmation prompts for potentially disruptive operations.
- Supports node cordoning and CronJob management actions.
- Establish and manage port-forwarding sessions for pods and services.
- Switch between Kubernetes contexts and namespaces.
- Includes resource filtering and searching across interactive tables.
- Supports interactive shell sessions inside containers.
- Configurable themes, keyboard shortcuts and display preferences.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/kdash-rs/kdash
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Developer: Deepu K Sasidharan
License: MIT License
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| KDash | Terminal-based Kubernetes dashboard |
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| Che | Kubernetes based Cloud Development Environments for Enterprise Teams |
| kubewall | Single-binary Kubernetes dashboard |
| Monokle | Create and maintain high-quality Kubernetes configurations |
| Koreo | Platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes |
| Seabird | Kubernetes IDE designed for the GNOME desktop |
| Kubethor | Kubernetes management web application |
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