Tools To Visualise Your Kubernetes Cluster

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:22:00 -0100

In this post I’m going to discuss a couple of tools I’ve used to help visualise workloads deployed on my Kubernetes clusters. The tools I’ll be looking at are:

Kube Ops View
WeaveWorks Scope

I’ll also finish by discussing some of the other approaches I am yet to try fully, but which might be better alternatives for larger clusters.

Background

I have been on-off interested in tools to help visualise all the things running on a Kubernetes cluster since I first got involved in Kubernetes. A bash script that hacks together a bit of kubectl to dump out the pods on each node (and also the built-in tools in the Google Cloud Console, since I use GKE) was an early creation that did a good enough job of satisfying my curiosity, but this is naturally hard to read and maintain.

Ops View on alexos.dev

Tools To Visualise Your Kubernetes Cluster

Background