Konstellate

Dev tools

kubernetes visualisation

SHOW HN2019

Konstellate

An Open Source GUI to Visualize Kubernetes Applications

github.com

#kubernetes#visualization#yaml#gui#kubectl

133points
10comments
#341of 2,195 in 2019
Top 16%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

4 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.

Idea: 2 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Nice YAML editor idea with potential to improve productivity

    From 1 comment
    • Someone who uses Kubernetes on a daily basis here. The visualisation thing looks like a nice to have feature, but nothing a K8s administrator can't live without. What's really…
      Aqua on HN
  • Clojure is pleasant for rapid development

    From 1 comment
    • Clojure is very pleasant to work with and is exceptionally useful for rapid development. My colleagues at JUXT certainly would not have been able to build our new bitemporal…
      refset on HN

Objections

  • Visualisation is a nice to have; the YAML editor is more useful

    From 1 comment
    • Someone who uses Kubernetes on a daily basis here. The visualisation thing looks like a nice to have feature, but nothing a K8s administrator can't live without. What's really…
      Aqua on HN

Requests

  • Simpler, faster YAML editing with inline field addition and a nested tree-list

    From 1 comment
    • Someone who uses Kubernetes on a daily basis here. The visualisation thing looks like a nice to have feature, but nothing a K8s administrator can't live without. What's really…
      Aqua on HN
  • Integration with kubecfg as a web view

    From 1 comment
    • This would be a nice addition to kubecfg. Eg `kubecfg show --web` to bring up an HTTP server that hosts this and lets you inspect the k8s resources that your jsonnet describes.
      q3k on HN
  • Local folder structure integration for gitops

    From 1 comment
    • Yeah that is definitely something we are considering adding in. It seems to be a pretty logical next step. Also, we want to tie it into local folder structures to enable a gitops…
      lawrencevillain on HN

Questions

Alternatives named

  • Skycap

    From 1 comment
    • Tried Skycap? https://www.cloud66.com/containers/skycap
      ksajadi on HN
  • kubecfg and kube.libsonnet

    From 1 comment
    • The way I've saved myself from YAML insanity in k8s is by using kubecfg [1] and kube.libsonnet [2]. I can now build abstractions that work for my particular deployments and never…
      q3k on HN

Category, keywords, summaries and labels on this page were made by AI (Thread Reader v2) and not checked by hand. Each point links to the comments it came from.

Add a badge to your READMEShown on HackerShow
[![Shown on HackerShow](https://hackershow.org/badge.svg)](https://hackershow.org/show/19921188)