buoy is a declarative TUI dashboard for Kubernetes. You define your dashboard in a JSON file and it will fetch the information from your Kubernetes cluster and build a dashboard for viewing the requested content right in your terminal window.

I created buoy because I do a lot of work on Kubernetes controllers. When I am making changes, I often find myself typing out a bunch of the same kubectl ... commands and switching between them. Some of those commands are blocking (i.e kubectl get logs -f ...) and to keep them running while running other commands required opening a new terminal window and more typing. Since I was running pretty repetitive commands I thought there had to be a better solution. I looked through existing CLI tooling around this space, but none had a simple interface that followed the pattern of "define what you want to see and I'll show it to you". Thus buoy was created to fill this gap (and save me some time while delaying the inevitable arthritis).

Install buoy by downloading one of the binaries from the releases or by running:

go install github.com/everettraven/buoy@latest

Load a dashboard with:

buoy <dashboard config file path>

• ctrl+c, q will quit the program and exit the tui
• tab will switch the active tab to the one to the right of the currently active tab
• shift+tab will switch the active tab to the one to the left of the currently active tab
• ctrl+h will open a more detailed help menu

While this is a hobby project and in the early development stages, I'm more than happy to accept contributions. If you use buoy and find some problems or have some ideas for features/improvements, file an issue. If you want to contribute code, feel free to pick up any unassigned issues and create a pull request.

Since this is a hobby project responses to issues and/or pull requests are likely to be slow.