🔪 Dexter

Your friendly neighborhood profile manager. Interactive CLI tool for AWS profiles and Kubernetes namespaces with TUI menus and file validation.

Features

• 📁 Hierarchical profile organization
• 🔒 Private profile support
• ✅ Automatic file validation (AWS config, kubeconfig)
• 👀 View profile contents before loading
• ⌨️ Interactive TUI with arrow key navigation
• 🔍 Fuzzy search for profiles and namespaces
• 🐚 Seamless shell integration

Installation

Download Binary

Download the latest release for your platform:

# macOS (Apple Silicon)
curl -L https://github.com/akomic/dexter/releases/latest/download/dexter-darwin-arm64 -o dexter
chmod +x dexter
sudo mv dexter /usr/local/bin/

# macOS (Intel)
curl -L https://github.com/akomic/dexter/releases/latest/download/dexter-darwin-amd64 -o dexter
chmod +x dexter
sudo mv dexter /usr/local/bin/

# Linux (amd64)
curl -L https://github.com/akomic/dexter/releases/latest/download/dexter-linux-amd64 -o dexter
chmod +x dexter
sudo mv dexter /usr/local/bin/

# Linux (arm64)
curl -L https://github.com/akomic/dexter/releases/latest/download/dexter-linux-arm64 -o dexter
chmod +x dexter
sudo mv dexter /usr/local/bin/

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/akomic/dexter.git
cd dexter
go build
sudo mv dexter /usr/local/bin/

Shell Integration

To enable environment variable exports, add the wrapper function to your shell:

# For bash/zsh
eval "$(dexter init)" >> ~/.bashrc  # or ~/.zshrc

# For fish
eval "$(dexter init fish)" >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

# Then reload your shell
source ~/.bashrc  # or source ~/.zshrc

Profile Setup

Create your profile directory structure:

mkdir -p ~/.dexter_profiles

Create profile files with environment variables:

# ~/.dexter_profiles/production
export AWS_PROFILE=prod
export AWS_REGION=us-east-1
export AWS_CONFIG_FILE=~/.aws/config-prod
export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config-prod

unset AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

For private profiles, add a .private marker:

mkdir -p ~/.dexter_profiles/company
touch ~/.dexter_profiles/company/.private

Usage

# Interactive menu
dexctx

# Show private profiles
dexctx -p

# Load specific profile
dexctx -p production

# Navigate to group
dexctx -g company

# Set Kubernetes namespace
dexctx -n production

# Interactive namespace selection
dexctx -n

Keyboard Shortcuts

• ↑/↓ or j/k - Navigate
• Enter - Select profile
• v - View profile contents
• / - Start fuzzy search (profiles and namespaces)
• Esc - Exit search mode (when searching)
• q - Quit

Profile Organization

~/.dexter_profiles/
├── production              # Regular profile
├── staging                 # Regular profile
├── company/                # Profile group
│   ├── .private           # Marks as private
│   ├── prod
│   └── dev
└── client/
    ├── profile1
    └── profile2

License

MIT