krex

Kubernetes Resource Explorer

Krex works by building a directional graph (digraph) in memory of various Kubernetes resources, and then giving you the graph one layer at a time to explore using an interactive drop down menu. Explore Kubernetes right from your terminal.

Get Involved

Join us in the #krex channel in the Kubernetes Slack community.

Current state of krex

Handy tool for exploring applications in Kubernetes

Future of krex

Global tool for exploring all things in Kubernetes

Building krex

Mac OSX

We use the C ncurses tool internally in Krex to navigate the terminal.

First install ncurses

brew install ncurses

Export the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig

Then use symbolic links to adjust the library for pkg-config. (Note: more information can be found here.

ln -s /usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig/formw.pc /usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig/form.pc
ln -s /usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig/menuw.pc /usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig/menu.pc
ln -s /usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig/panelw.pc /usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig/panel.pc

Then build the binary

make build

and add to your path

mv krex /usr/local/bin