tkn-dash

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tkn-dash

tkn-dash is a barebones, lightweight and fast alternative to Tekton Dashboard.

Some of its highlights are:

• no deployment required: can be used as a command line tool, spinning up a local dashboard using the user's own cluster credentials.
• can be used without cluster access, if provided with a snapshot of Tekton resources.
• fast: while the official tekton dashboard list pages can take minutes to become interactive in clusters with thousands of tekton resources, tkn-dash is immediatelly responsive as the full list of resources is never sent to the client.
• powered by HTMX.

Installing

• Via go install:

go install github.com/cezarguimaraes/tkn-dash@latest

• Self-contained executables for Linux, Windows and Mac are available on the releases page.

Usage

• Start the server on a random port, using local kubernetes credentials and open a browser to it:

  tkn-dash -browser
  

• On a specific port:

  tkn-dash -browser -addr :8000
  

• Using Tekton resources snapshots - does not require cluster credentials:

  tkn-dash -browser tmp/*.json
  

  For this scenario, snapshots could have been created as follows:

  mkdir tmp
  kubectl get taskruns -o json > tmp/trs.json
  kubectl get pipelineruns -o json > tmp/prs.json