golang-kubectx-tray

Small Menu Bar App to quickly identify the current Kubernetes Context:

Clicking on it we will show the full name of the current context (first line) and the current namespace (second line):

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Configuration
• Installation
  • Build and install on Mac
  • Build and install on Linux
  • Build and install on Windows

Configuration

Using the ~/.kube/kct-config configuration file we can choose an icon and some small text to be shown on the tray:

contexts:
- match: preprod.k8s
  title: preprod
  icon: yellow
- match: devel.k8s
  title: dev
  icon: green
- match: kind-
  title: kind

The current list of available icons is:

• kube:
• green:
• yellow:
• red:
• loki:
• odin:
• greenproc:
• yellowproc:
• redproc:

Please submit a PR if you want to add more, in the icons folder you can find the icon plus the 2goarray version of it.

Installation

It's currently only tested on MacOS.

Build and install on Mac

To build this application you can simply run make. It will create the binary file under KubeCtxTray.app so you can just drag it into your applications folder.

Build and install on Linux

It's not tested, but it should work file. Please follow getlantern/systray instructions for installing it's dependencies.

Build and install on Windows

Please submit a PR if you get it working on Windows.