v0.9.0

Highlights

Commands that forward to kubectl now know kubectl's own flags, read from a table built from kubectl's source, where kx used to guess at them.

• Flags in any order: Flags and an index can come in any order, so kx logs --tail=2 2 works where it used to fail.
• Help for kubectl's flags: Each command's --help lists kubectl's flags for it under "Passthrough options", with kubectl's own descriptions.
• Completion for them too: Pressing TAB offers kubectl's flags by name and knows their values, such as filenames for a flag that takes a file.
• Typos caught: A mistyped flag now gets '--bogus' isn't a flag of kubectl describe as of v1.37.1, and kx --version names both your kubectl and the table's.
• Match in output formats: A narrowed kx get pods -m api -o yaml returns a List of only the matching items, shaped as kubectl prints it.
• Clean output for scripts: With --no-headers, kx's own lines go to stderr, so the rows stand alone on stdout.

Breaking: If your kubectl takes a flag kx's table doesn't know, put it after --, as in kx describe 1 -- --new-flag: an unknown flag is now refused instead of passed on.

Breaking changes

• The kx wait command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#501).
• The kx set image command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#500).
• The kx drain command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#499).
• The kx label and kx annotate commands parse kubectl's flags from the generated table (#498).
• The kx yaml command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#497).
• The kx cp command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#496).
• The kx port-forward command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#495).
• The kx rollout command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#494).
• The kx scale command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#493).
• The kx delete command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#492).
• The kx debug command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#491).
• The kx exec command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#490).
• The kx edit command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#489).
• The kx logs command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#488).
• The kx describe command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#487).
• The kx top command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#486).
• The kx secret command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#485).
• The kx get command parses kubectl's flags from the generated table (#484).

Features

• Generate kubectl's flag table, and name both kubectls in --version (#480).

Fixes

• A headerless empty listing still offers the way back (#538).
• Refuse an empty --target on a Node too (#537).
• The --no-headers flag means a program is reading stdout (#535).
• The --no-headers flag and merged documents work on every listing path (#530).
• A narrowed -o json or -o yaml keeps kubectl's bytes (#531).
• Refuse an empty --target (#534).
• The kx secret --decode and kx tree -A commands keep an empty match's shape (#533).
• Path flags from kubectl offer files (#532).
• Stop process-wide maps keeping every root reachable (#529).
• Refuse an empty --image (#527).
• Name the first flag typed when refusing another subcommand's (#526).
• Build internal/kubectl's tests on Windows (#525).
• The --out flag on kx top offers files (#524).
• Parse kx cordon and uncordon's kubectl flags (#528).
• Preserve deprecated kubectl shorthands (#520).
• Title the kubectl flag group "Passthrough options" (#518).
• Refuse a stray positional on delete, scale, drain and rollout (#517).
• Values of kubectl's flags offer no filenames (#506).
• Show an optional flag value as attached (#505).
• Nothing after -- is read as an index (#504).
• The --match flag narrows -o json and -o yaml by each item's name (#478).
• The --match flag and --no-headers compose (#477).
• A scope flag beside an index is refused, as elsewhere in kx (#476).
• An empty --match keeps its count and explains in a row (#475).

New Contributors

• @dannyward630 made their first contribution in #520

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0