k8s-diagram 0.1.1

Creates a preview diagram of Kubernetes Resources without the need to apply them.

K8s Diagram Previewer

This project exists to help developers take some of the guesswork out of deploying Kubernetes definitions by providing a preview of what will actually be deployed with a set of YAML definitions.

Installation

Clone the repo and run pip install k8s-diagram

You may also need to install graphviz.

Running

This script takes one argument, a path to a folder containing K8s YAML definitions and outputs a PNG diagram at kubernetes.png representing those definitions, as well as a python file at create_diagram.py if you would like to extend the diagram with other infrastructure surrounding your project. To automatically open the image upon completion, add the --show flag.

python app.py <path_to_folder>

To try out the example, run python3 diagram.py ./example_yaml

For Helm Charts, simply run with the --helm flag and your chart will be templated and placed into /tmp/helm_preview_yaml/chart.yaml before the script runs.

You can also pass in a context from kubeconfig with the --cluster-context flag to pull in all supported resources from the target context prior to diagram generation.

Run python diagram.py -h to see other available options.

usage: diagram.py [-h] [-s] [-f {png,jpg,pdf,svg}] [-p] [-n] [--helm] [--helm-args HELM_ARGS] Folder Path

Create preview diagram of K8s YAML

positional arguments:
  Folder Path           Path to the target definitions

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s, --show            Show the diagram when finished
  -f {png,jpg,pdf,svg}, --image-format {png,jpg,pdf,svg}
                        Output diagram as png, jpg, svg or pdf.
  -p, --diagram-py      Save a python script at create_diagram.py that can be edited to add more to the diagram.
  -n, --networking-only
                        Only draw diagram edges to display networking, ignore storage links, etc.
  --helm                Indicates that the path given is a helm chart that needs to be templated.
  --helm-args HELM_ARGS
                        String of arguments to use with helm template. Ex: "--set ingress.enabled=true"

Support

This tool currently supports the following Kubernetes resource types:

• Deployment
• Service
• Ingress
• Pod
• CronJob
• Job
• DaemonSet
• StatefulSet
• ConfigMap
• Secret
• PersistentVolumeClaim

There is partial support for all node types listed at https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/docs/nodes/k8s but links will not be formed.