This is a simple CLI that provides an overview of the resource requests, limits, and utilization in a Kubernetes cluster. It attempts to combine the best parts of the output from kubectl top and kubectl describe into an easy to use CLI focused on cluster resources.
Go binaries are automatically built with each release by GoReleaser. These can be accessed on the GitHub releases page for this project.
This project can be installed with Homebrew:
brew tap robscott/tap
brew install robscott/tap/kube-capacity
This project can be installed with Krew:
kubectl krew install resource-capacity
By default, kube-capacity will output a list of nodes with the total CPU and Memory resource requests and limits for all the pods running on them. For clusters with more than one node, the first line will also include cluster wide totals. That output will look something like this:
kube-capacity
NODE CPU REQUESTS CPU LIMITS MEMORY REQUESTS MEMORY LIMITS
* 560m (28%) 130m (7%) 572Mi (9%) 770Mi (13%)
example-node-1 220m (22%) 10m (1%) 192Mi (6%) 360Mi (12%)
example-node-2 340m (34%) 120m (12%) 380Mi (13%) 410Mi (14%)
For more detailed output, kube-capacity can include pods in the output. When -p or --pods are passed to kube-capacity, it will include pod specific output that looks like this:
kube-capacity --pods
NODE NAMESPACE POD CPU REQUESTS CPU LIMITS MEMORY REQUESTS MEMORY LIMITS
* * * 560m (28%) 780m (38%) 572Mi (9%) 770Mi (13%)
example-node-1 * * 220m (22%) 320m (32%) 192Mi (6%) 360Mi (12%)
example-node-1 kube-system metrics-server-lwc6z 100m (10%) 200m (20%) 100Mi (3%) 200Mi (7%)
example-node-1 kube-system coredns-7b5bcb98f8 120m (12%) 120m (12%) 92Mi (3%) 160Mi (5%)
example-node-2 * * 340m (34%) 460m (46%) 380Mi (13%) 410Mi (14%)
example-node-2 kube-system kube-proxy-3ki7 200m (20%) 280m (28%) 210Mi (7%) 210Mi (7%)
example-node-2 tiller tiller-deploy 140m (14%) 180m (18%) 170Mi (5%) 200Mi (7%)
To help understand how resource utilization compares to configured requests and limits, kube-capacity can include utilization metrics in the output. It's important to note that this output relies on metrics-server functioning correctly in your cluster. When -u or --util are passed to kube-capacity, it will include resource utilization information that looks like this:
kube-capacity --util
NODE CPU REQUESTS CPU LIMITS CPU UTIL MEMORY REQUESTS MEMORY LIMITS MEMORY UTIL
* 560m (28%) 130m (7%) 40m (2%) 572Mi (9%) 770Mi (13%) 470Mi (8%)
example-node-1 220m (22%) 10m (1%) 10m (1%) 192Mi (6%) 360Mi (12%) 210Mi (7%)
example-node-2 340m (34%) 120m (12%) 30m (3%) 380Mi (13%) 410Mi (14%) 260Mi (9%)
For more detailed output, kube-capacity can include both pods and resource utilization in the output. When --util and --pods are passed to kube-capacity, it will result in a wide output that looks like this:
kube-capacity --pods --util
NODE NAMESPACE POD CPU REQUESTS CPU LIMITS CPU UTIL MEMORY REQUESTS MEMORY LIMITS MEMORY UTIL
* * * 560m (28%) 780m (38%) 340m (17%) 572Mi (9%) 770Mi (13%) 470Mi (8%)
example-node-1 * * 220m (22%) 320m (32%) 160m (16%) 192Mi (6%) 360Mi (12%) 210Mi (7%)
example-node-1 kube-system metrics-server-lwc6z 100m (10%) 200m (20%) 70m (7%) 100Mi (3%) 200Mi (7%) 120Mi (4%)
example-node-1 kube-system coredns-7b5bcb98f8 120m (12%) 120m (12%) 90m (9%) 92Mi (3%) 160Mi (5%) 90Mi (3%)
example-node-2 * * 340m (34%) 460m (46%) 180m (18%) 380Mi (13%) 410Mi (14%) 260Mi (9%)
example-node-2 kube-system kube-proxy-3ki7 200m (20%) 280m (28%) 110m (11%) 210Mi (7%) 210Mi (7%) 120Mi (4%)
example-node-2 tiller tiller-deploy 140m (14%) 180m (18%) 70m (7%) 170Mi (6%) 200Mi (7%) 140Mi (5%)
It's worth noting that utilization numbers from pods will likely not add up to the total node utilization numbers. Unlike request and limit numbers where node and cluster level numbers represent a sum of pod values, node metrics come directly from metrics-server and will likely include other forms of resource utilization.
To highlight the nodes, pods, and containers with the highest metrics, you can sort by a variety of columns:
kube-capacity --util --sort cpu.util
NODE CPU REQUESTS CPU LIMITS CPU UTIL MEMORY REQUESTS MEMORY LIMITS MEMORY UTIL
* 560m (28%) 130m (7%) 40m (2%) 572Mi (9%) 770Mi (13%) 470Mi (8%)
example-node-2 340m (34%) 120m (12%) 30m (3%) 380Mi (13%) 410Mi (14%) 260Mi (9%)
example-node-1 220m (22%) 10m (1%) 10m (1%) 192Mi (6%) 360Mi (12%) 210Mi (7%)
For more advanced usage, kube-capacity also supports filtering by pod, namespace, and/or node labels. The following examples show how to use these filters:
kube-capacity --pod-labels app=nginx
kube-capacity --namespace-labels team=api
kube-capacity --node-labels kubernetes.io/role=node
By default, kube-capacity will provide output in a table format. To view this data in JSON or YAML format, the output flag can be used. Here are some sample commands:
kube-capacity --pods --output json
kube-capacity --pods --containers --util --output yaml
-c, --containers includes containers in output
--context string context to use for Kubernetes config
-h, --help help for kube-capacity
-n, --namespace-labels string labels to filter namespaces with
--node-labels string labels to filter nodes with
-o, --output string output format for information
(supports: [table json yaml])
(default "table")
-l, --pod-labels string labels to filter pods with
-p, --pods includes pods in output
--sort string attribute to sort results be (supports:
[cpu.util cpu.request cpu.limit mem.util mem.request mem.limit name])
(default "name")
-u, --util includes resource utilization in output
Any commands requesting cluster utilization are dependent on metrics-server running on your cluster. If it's not already installed, you can install it with the official helm chart.
There are already some great projects out there that have similar goals.
- kube-resource-report: generates HTML/CSS report for resource requests and limits across multiple clusters.
- kubetop: a CLI similar to top for Kubernetes, focused on resource utilization (not requests and limits).
Although this project was originally developed by robscott, there have been some great contributions from others:
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