homeport / havener

If you use a Kubernetes cluster, chances are very high that you use kubectl a lot. These are fine tools and allow you to do everything you need to do, but there are use cases where you end up with a very long kubectl command in your terminal. This is why we created havener to introduce a convenience wrapper around kubectl. Think of it as a swiss army knife for Kubernetes tasks. Possible use cases are for example executing a command on multiple pods at the same time, or retrieving usage details.

Like kubectl, havener relies on the Kubernetes configuration that can be set via the KUBECONFIG environment variable. It can also be provided with the --kubeconfig flag, which takes the path to the YAML file (for example $HOME/.kube/config).

Docker Hub serves curated Docker images with havener as well as kubectl and other important CLI tools. There are two flavours available:

The Go module setup can be frustrating, if you have to update Kubernetes API libraries. In general, using go get with a specific version based on a tag is known to work, for example go get k8s.io/client-go@kubernetes-1.16.4. In case you run into difficulties, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

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