Octant¶

Octant is a tool for developers to understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster. It aims to be part of the developer's toolkit for gaining insight and approaching complexity found in Kubernetes. Octant offers a combination of introspective tooling, cluster navigation, and object management along with a plugin system to further extend its capabilities.

Octant is a Go "backend" application that run on your laptop and use a browser to access the service. It use your local Kube Config to discover clusters.

Install¶

Mac Os XLinuxWindows

brew install octant
mkdir -p  ~/.config/octant/plugins

octant

Download the .deb or .rpm from the releases page.

choco install octant --confirm

Or download a pre-built package from the releases page.

Usage¶

Octant will open a brower and connect to the Octant App when you start it.

You can then browse your clusters and edit the resources.

You can install plugins, which are Go binaries.

Octant Overview

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