kontext Orbatschow

cli context devops-tools golang kubeconfig kubernetes portable terminal

Use this command to install kontext:

winget install --id=orbatschow.kontext -e

Kontext is a single binary application designed to simplifykubeconfig management for Kubernetes users. It offers a declarative approach to streamline the handling of multiple clusters and contexts.

Key Features:

Context Switching: Seamlessly switch between contexts with minimal input, listing available options from your current kubeconfig file.
Groups Management: Organize sources into groups for efficient bundling and switching, enabling or disabling multiple sources collectively.
Sources Configuration: Define include and exclude patterns to manage kubeconfig files, ensuring duplicates are removed for clarity.
Verbosity Control: Adjust output levels from Trace to Fatal for tailored debugging and logging needs.
Backup Configurations: Automatically backupkubeconfig files with configurable paths across different operating systems.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for Kubernetes users, DevOps engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), Kontext enhances workflow efficiency by simplifying context management. Its features reduce manual errors and improve overall productivity in cluster administration.

Kontext can be installed via winget, ensuring easy setup across supported environments.

kontext

Kontext is a single binary application, that takes yet another approach on kubeconfig management.

Features

Kontext has several features, that will ease your life when dealing with different kubeconfig files.

Context

Switch between a context by just calling the binary, without any arguments. It will read your current kubeconfig file and list all available options.

Groups

Groups refer to one or more sources and can be used to bundle kubeconfig files together. You can switch between groups and enable or disable multiple sources at once.

Sources

Source include or exclude kubeconfig files as a glob pattern. A source always computes all included sources files first and then removes all duplicates. After the include section has been computed the same happens for all files, that shall be excluded. Take a look at the example to understand sources in depth.

Usage

[I] ➜  kx -h
manage kubernetes config files, contexts, groups and sources

Usage:
  kontext [flags]
  kontext [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  get         get [context|group] [name], defaults to context
  help        Help about any command
  reload      reload the active group
  set         set [context|group] [name]
  version     version for kontext

Flags:
  -h, --help            help for kontext
  -v, --verbosity int   verbose output (default 3)

Use "kontext [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Verbosity

You can tweak the verbosity by using the following levels:

1 -&gt; Trace
2 -&gt; Debug
3 -&gt; Info (default)
4 -&gt; Warn
5 -&gt; Error
6 -&gt; Fatal
7 -&gt; Print

Demo

Installation

At the moment kontext is distributed as a single binary and can be downloaded from the releases.