devkube

devkube bootstraps feature-rich Kubernetes clusters locally

Create Cluster (using Docker)

The default create command will spin up a local DevKube cluster in a single container running in Docker. Lima, Podman Desktop, Rancher Desktop should work too.

$ devkube create
★ installing Kubernetes Cluster...
★ installing Cert-Manager...
★ installing Gatekeeper...
★ installing Crossplane...
★ installing Prometheus...
★ installing Grafana Loki...
★ installing Grafana Tempo...
★ installing Grafana...
★ installing Registry...
★ installing Dashboard...
★ installing Promtail...
★ installing OpenTelemetry...

Installed Components

• Dashboard - cluster management web ui
• Registry - container images distribution
• Cert-Manager -X.509 certificate management
• Gatekeeper - customizable policy controller
• Crossplane - universal control plane
• Grafana - observability and data visualization
• Grafana Loki - log aggregation system
• Grafana Tempo - distributed tracing
• Prometheus - monitoring and alerting system
• Open Telemetry - receive, process and export telemetry data

Management Tools

Kubernetes Web UI

open Dashboard in browser

$ devkube dashboard

Grafana Web UI

open Grafana in browser

$ devkube grafana

Access cluster workload

To access workload services within your cluster, connect allows you to forward these adresses and ports locally and allow easy access.

sudo devkube connect
...
5:58PM INF adding tunnel namespace=platform hosts="[dashboard.platform dashboard.platform.svc.cluster.local]" ports=[80]
5:58PM INF adding tunnel namespace=platform hosts="[grafana.platform grafana.platform.svc.cluster.local]" ports=[80]
...

Import a local image

# pull an image (or build one)
docker pull alpine:3

# import image into cluster registry
devkube load alpine:3

Build an image within cluster

cd /path/to/your/project

# cat Dockerfile
# FROM alpine:3
# RUN apk add --no-cache bash

# build image using buildkitd
devkube build demo .
★ creating container (default/loop-buildkit-704c031)...
★ copying build context...
...
★ removing container (default/loop-buildkit-704c031)..

# run impage in kubernetes
kubectl run -it --rm demo --image registry.platform/demo /bin/bash
demo:/# exit

Installation

MacOS / Linux with Homebrew

brew install adrianliechti/tap/devkube

Windows with Scoop

scoop bucket add adrianliechti https://github.com/adrianliechti/scoop-bucket
scoop install kubectl helm adrianliechti/devkube