[feature request] display which cluster (context) and namespace currently being viewed

[himslm01]

After two days of using Kubenav on desktop and tablet I'm really enjoying the UI - especially on an iPad.

But I'd really like to have the context and namespace I'm currently interacting with displayed all the time.

I've currently got 11 contexts registered, each has several namespaces.

I was on a call today looking at resource usage in a pod and I was asked "which environment is that?" Without navigating away from the data I was reading I had no way of telling.

Looking for work-arounds I noticed that:

On the desktop: the "Clusters" drop-down menu doesn't have a check mark next to the currently used context

On the tablet: I really have no way (that I've seen) of seeing which context I'm interacting with unless I go all the way to the "Clusters" menu.

On the desktop and tablet: when you're look at an object's details the menu for changing namespaces (which does have a check mark - when you can see the menu) is not available.

In order to use Kubenav with confidence I believe the user should have feedback about the context and namespace they are currently working in.

Thank you :-)

[si458]

The way I know which namespace I’m working in is I select the settings icon on the top right of any of the tabs say ‘pods’ and it shows a tick next to which namespace I’m viewing including ‘show all’ which then shows a grey name on top of your items being listed so you know which belong to which

As for which cluster you browsing, I can’t help there as I only have a single cluster sorry

[ricoberger]

Hi @himslm01, I like the idea to improve the visibility of the current context. I already started some time ago with this or better with the improvement of the context switching.

I committed my ideas and created #99. Your feedback would be very useful. You can download the build for this PR from https://github.com/kubenav/kubenav/actions/runs/131370304

[si458]

@ricoberger just tried it and wow that easy!
i created a minikube cluster so i now have 2 to switch between
any chance of maybe adding a namespace switcher underneath the context switcher rather than the namespace switcher being inside the settings button on top right?

[ricoberger]

Thanks for the fast feedback, I will look into this.

[himslm01]

Hi @ricoberger. On Linux when I download the build from that PR I get a Zip, containing a tar.gz, containing one file - the kubenav executable. What do I do to make it run?
I tried replacing the kubenav executable in the previous install - leaving the electron framework around it - but I didn't notice any difference. Sorry to be thick.

[ricoberger]

Hi @himslm01, it should be enough when you start the executable via double click. Then it should be create two folders vendor and resources. It's not necessary to keep the old installation, because I changed the underlying architecture some time ago.

If kubenav doesn't start you can also start it via terminal, there you are also getting an error message in case it doesn't work.

[himslm01]

Hi @ricoberger,
Thanks.. I ran kubenav in an empty folder from the command line:

$ ./kubenav 
INFO[0000] (version=, branch=HEAD, revision=85795a5c228bab853dddff09eee6a7ec0c2c53eb) 
INFO[0000] (go=go1.14.4, user=runner, date=2020-06-10@19:34:16) 
INFO[0000] Version Check: Current , Available 1.4.1     
FATA[0000] Could not create menu                         error="stat /home/mdsh/.kube/config:/home/mdsh/.kube/config.d/home/config:/home/mdsh/.kube/config.d/bbc/config: no such file or directory"
mdsh@caspar001:~/Applications/tmp$ env|grep KUBE
KUBECONFIG=/home/mdsh/.kube/config:/home/mdsh/.kube/config.d/home/config:/home/mdsh/.kube/config.d/bbc/config

Do you want me to make a new ticket for parsing the KUBECONFIG environment variable correctly?
Kubenav runns as expected if I reduce my KUBECONFIG to one file

$ KUBECONFIG=/home/mdsh/.kube/config.d/home/config ./kubenav
INFO[0000] (version=, branch=HEAD, revision=85795a5c228bab853dddff09eee6a7ec0c2c53eb) 
INFO[0000] (go=go1.14.4, user=runner, date=2020-06-10@19:34:16) 
INFO[0000] Version Check: Current , Available 1.4.1     
INFO[0000] astikit: starting worker...                  
INFO[0004] astikit: worker is now waiting...

Yes, I really like the Context drop-down-menu. It appears (to my mind) in a slightly strange place at the bottom middle of the window - a long way from the menu, but I'm sure I can get used to that :-)

[ricoberger]

Thanks for your feedback.

Yes a new ticket for the parsing of the KUBECONFIG environment variable would be good.

[ricoberger]

@himslm01 I adjusted the position of the clusters selection, feel free to try out the new version: https://github.com/kubenav/kubenav/actions/runs/133598403

@si458 After a first look, it would be a bit more work to move the namespace selection to the menu. I would postpone this to later.