Visualize your Kubernetes clusters and workloads using Octant

In this article, I will explain how to visualize your Kubernetes clusters and workload using Octant.   

Download Octant

You can download the latest release of Octant from https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/releases.

Install/ configure Octant

Here I have downloaded Octant for Windows. The Windows machine where you are going to run octant.exe should also have kubectl installed on it. Here is the reference link to my post on installing kubectl on Windows. The next thing that you have to do is copy the kube config file of your K8s cluster to the kube config file location of the Windows machine. 

Octant uses this kube config file to connect to your K8s clusters. Now you can unzip the Octant Windows-64bit zip file, browse to the directory and run the octant.exe file.

You can now access the dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:7777

Get insight into K8s clusters and workloads

Overview of apps in the selected namespace

Overview of all workloads in the selected namespace

Config and storage in the selected namespace

K8s cluster nodes

View/ update/ delete workload YAML file

Enter into the terminal of a pod

Hope it was useful. Cheers!