Kor is a tool to discover unused Kubernetes resources. Currently, Kor can identify and list unused:
- ConfigMaps
- Secrets
- Services
- ServiceAccounts
- Deployments
- StatefulSets
- Roles
- HPAs
- PVCs
- Ingresses
- PDBs
- CRDs
- PVs
- Pods
- Jobs
Download the binary for your operating system from the releases page and add it to your system's PATH.
For macOS users, you can install Kor using Homebrew:
brew install kor
Install the binary to your $GOBIN
or $GOPATH/bin
:
go install github.com/yonahd/kor@latest
Run a container with your kubeconfig mounted:
docker run --rm -i yonahdissen/kor
docker run --rm -i -v "/path/to/.kube/config:/root/.kube/config" yonahdissen/kor all
Run as a cronjob in your Cluster (with an option for sending slack updates)
helm upgrade -i kor \
--namespace kor \
--create-namespace \
--set cronJob.enabled=true
./charts/kor
Run as a deployment in your Cluster exposing prometheus metrics
helm upgrade -i kor \
--namespace kor \
--create-namespace \
./charts/kor
For more information see in cluster usage
Kor provides various subcommands to identify and list unused resources. The available commands are:
all
- Gets all unused resources for the specified namespace or all namespaces.configmap
- Gets unused ConfigMaps for the specified namespace or all namespaces.secret
- Gets unused Secrets for the specified namespace or all namespaces.services
- Gets unused Services for the specified namespace or all namespaces.serviceaccount
- Gets unused ServiceAccounts for the specified namespace or all namespaces.deployments
- Gets unused Deployments for the specified namespace or all namespaces.statefulsets
- Gets unused StatefulSets for the specified namespace or all namespaces.role
- Gets unused Roles for the specified namespace or all namespaces.hpa
- Gets unused HPAs for the specified namespace or all namespaces.pods
- Gets unused Pods for the specified namespace or all namespaces.pvc
- Gets unused PVCs for the specified namespace or all namespaces.pv
- Gets unused PVs in the cluster(non namespaced resource).ingress
- Gets unused Ingresses for the specified namespace or all namespaces.pdb
- Gets unused PDBs for the specified namespace or all namespaces.crd
- Gets unused CRDs in the cluster(non namespaced resource).jobs
- Gets unused jobs for the specified namespace or all namespaces.exporter
- Export Prometheus metrics.
--delete Delete unused resources
-l, --exclude-labels string Selector to filter out, Example: --exclude-labels key1=value1,key2=value2.
-e, --exclude-namespaces string Namespaces to be excluded, splited by comma. Example: --exclude-namespace ns1,ns2,ns3. If --include-namespace is set, --exclude-namespaces will be ignored.
-i, --include-non-namespaced Include recources not bound to a namespace.
-h, --help help for kor
-n, --include-namespaces string Namespaces to run on, splited by comma. Example: --include-namespace ns1,ns2,ns3.
-k, --kubeconfig string Path to kubeconfig file (optional)
--newer-than string The maximum age of the resources to be considered unused. This flag cannot be used together with older-than flag. Example: --newer-than=1h2m
--no-interactive Do not prompt for confirmation when deleting resources. Be careful using this flag!
--older-than string The minimum age of the resources to be considered unused. This flag cannot be used together with newer-than flag. Example: --older-than=1h2m
-o, --output string Output format (table, json or yaml) (default "table")
--slack-auth-token string Slack auth token to send notifications to. --slack-auth-token requires --slack-channel to be set.
--slack-channel string Slack channel to send notifications to. --slack-channel requires --slack-auth-token to be set.
--slack-webhook-url string Slack webhook URL to send notifications to
-v, --verbose Verbose output (print empty namespaces)
To use a specific subcommand, run kor [subcommand] [flags]
.
kor all --include-namespaces my-namespace
For more information about each subcommand and its available flags, you can use the --help
flag.
kor [subcommand] --help
Resource | What it looks for | Known False Positives |
---|---|---|
ConfigMaps | ConfigMaps not used in the following places: - Pods - Containers - ConfigMaps used through Volumes - ConfigMaps used through environment variables |
ConfigMaps used by resources which don't explicitly state them in the config. e.g Grafana dashboards loaded dynamically OPA policies fluentd configs |
Secrets | Secrets not used in the following places: - Pods - Containers - Secrets used through volumes - Secrets used through environment variables - Secrets used by Ingress TLS - Secrets used by ServiceAccounts |
Secrets used by resources which don't explicitly state them in the config |
Services | Services with no endpoints | |
Deployments | Deployments with no Replicas | |
ServiceAccounts | ServiceAccounts unused by Pods ServiceAccounts unused by roleBinding or clusterRoleBinding |
|
StatefulSets | Statefulsets with no Replicas | |
Roles | Roles not used in roleBinding | |
PVCs | PVCs not used in Pods | |
Ingresses | Ingresses not pointing at any Service | |
Hpas | HPAs not used in Deployments HPAs not used in StatefulSets |
|
CRDs | CRDs not used the cluster | |
Pvs | PVs not bound to a PVC | |
Pdbs | PDBs not used in Deployments PDBs not used in StatefulSets |
|
Jobs | Jobs status is completed |
If you want to delete resources in an interactive way using Kor you can run:
kor configmap --include-namespaces my-namespace --delete
You will be prompted with:
Do you want to delete ConfigMap test-configmap in namespace my-namespace? (Y/N):
To delete with no prompt (
kor configmap --include-namespaces my-namespace --delete --no-interactive
The resources labeled with:
kor/used=true
will be ignored by kor even if they are unused. You can add this label to resources you want to ignore.
To use this tool inside the cluster running as a CronJob and sending the results to a Slack Webhook as raw text(has characters limits of 4000) or to a Slack channel by uploading a file(recommended), you can use the following commands:
# Send to a Slack webhook as raw text
helm upgrade -i kor \
--namespace kor \
--create-namespace \
--set cronJob.slackWebhookUrl=<slack-webhook-url> \
./charts/kor
# Send to a Slack channel by uploading a file
helm upgrade -i kor \
--namespace kor \
--create-namespace \
--set cronJob.slackChannel=<slack-channel> \
--set cronJob.slackToken=<slack-token> \
./charts/kor
Note: To send it to Slack as a file it's required to set the
slackToken
andslackChannel
values.
It's set to run every Monday at 1 a.m. by default. You can change the schedule by setting the cronJob.schedule
value.
helm upgrade -i kor \
--namespace kor \
--create-namespace \
--set cronJob.slackChannel=<slack-channel> \
--set cronJob.slackToken=<slack-token> \
--set cronJob.schedule="0 1 * * 1" \
./charts/kor
Dashboard can be found here.
Contributions are welcome! If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue in the issue tracker.
This open-source project is available under the MIT License. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute it as per the terms of the license.