Monokle streamlines the process of creating, analyzing, and deploying Kubernetes configurations by providing a unified visual tool for authoring YAML manifests, validating policies, and managing live clusters.
This is free and open source software.
Note, the software is no longer under active maintenance.
Key Features
- Single IDE for your configuration files, manifests, resources and cluster management.
- Connect to your clusters and see real time state and resources.
- Quickly get a high-level view of your manifests, their contained resources and relationships.
- Leverage Git to manage the lifecycle of your configuration.
- Validate your manifests in real time against YAML formatting, K8s schemas including CRD installed, and easily follow links.
- Validate resources using OPA policy rules or define your own.
- Easily edit and create resources without having to learn or look up yaml syntax and see the changes applied.
- Refactor resources with maintained integrity of names and references.
- Preview and debug resources generated with kustomize or helm.
- Visualize extended resources defined in CRD.
- Compare resource versions against your cluster and apply changes immediately or through pull requests.
- Create multi-step forms using Monokle’s templating system to quickly generate manifests.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/kubeshop/monokle
Support:
Developer: Kubeshop
License: MIT License
Monokle is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| IDEs for Kubernetes | |
|---|---|
| K9s | Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters |
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| Freelens | Graphical interface for managing and monitoring Kubernetes clusters |
| KDash | Terminal-based Kubernetes dashboard |
| Headlamp | Web interface for Kubernetes |
| 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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