🚤 Kube Boat 🚤

Local and standalone Kubernetes API Server, always by your side.

Setup

Requirements

Kube Boat requires following tools are installed in local machines.

• kubectl
• Evntest Binaries

Installation

$ go install github.com/hhiroshell/kube-boat@latest

Quick Start

Make sure environment variables of Envtest framework has been set appropriately. Kube Boat executes Kubernetes API Server using the framework. So these variables affects to behavior of the API Server.

Then, you can start a Kubernetes API Server by boat start.

$ boat start
Starting local Kubernetes API server...
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...Done.

Your kubectl context can be updated by boat kubeconfig .

$ boat kubeconfig

$ kubectl config current-context
kube-boat

$ kubectl get namespaces
NAME              STATUS   AGE
default           Active   22s
kube-node-lease   Active   27s
kube-public       Active   27s
kube-system       Active   27s

To stop the local API Server, use boat stop sub command.

$ boat stop
shutting down the API server...

Advanced Usage

Start with CRDs installed

When you start local Kubernetes API Server, you can set paths to the directory or file containing manifests of CustomResourceDefinition with --crd-path flag.

With this flag, the API Server will start with the CRDs installed.

$ boat start --crd-path=./example/crd/crontabs.stable.example.com.yaml

$ kubectl api-resources --api-group=stable.example.com
NAME       SHORTNAMES   APIVERSION              NAMESPACED   KIND
crontabs   ct           stable.example.com/v1   true         CronTab

LICENSE

Kube Boat is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, and includes works distributed under same one or the MIT License.