Kubewatch

kubewatch is a Kubernetes watcher that currently publishes notification to Slack. Run it in your k8s cluster, and you will get event notifications in a slack channel.

Create a Slack bot

Create a new Bot: https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot

Edit the bot to customize it's name, icon and retreive the API token (it starts with xoxb-).

Invite the Bot into your channel by typing: /join @name_of_your_bot in the Slack message area.

Installing kubewatch using helm

When you have helm installed in your cluster, use the following setup:

$ helm repo add incubator https://kubernetes-charts-incubator.storage.googleapis.com/
$ helm install kubewatch incubator/kubewatch --set='rbac.create=true,slack.channel=#YOUR_CHANNEL,slack.token=xoxb-YOUR_TOKEN,resourcesToWatch.pod=true,resourcesToWatch.daemonset=true'

You may also provide a values file instead:

rbac:
  create: true
resourcesToWatch:
  daemonset: true
  deployment: false
  pod: true
  replicaset: false
  replicationcontroller: false
  services: true
slack:
  channel: '#YOUR_CHANNEL'
  token: 'xoxb-YOUR_TOKEN'

And use that:

$ helm upgrade --install kubewatch incubator/kubewatch --values=values-file.yml

Installing kubewatch using kubectl

In order to run kubewatch in a Kubernetes cluster quickly, the easiest way is for you to create a ConfigMap to hold kubewatch configuration. It contains the SLACK bot API token and channel to use.

An example is provided at kubewatch-configmap.yaml, do not forget to update your own slack channel and token parameters. Alternatively, you could use secrets.

Create k8s configmap:

$ kubectl create -f kubewatch-configmap.yaml

Create the Pod directly, or create your own deployment:

$ kubectl create -f kubewatch.yaml

A kubewatch container will be created along with kubectl sidecar container in order to reach the API server.

Once the Pod is running, you will start seeing Kubernetes events in your configured Slack channel. Here is a screenshot:

To modify what notifications you get, update the kubewatch ConfigMap and turn on and off (true/false) resources:

resource:
      deployment: false
      replicationcontroller: false
      replicaset: false
      daemonset: false
      services: true
      pod: true

Building

Building with go

you need go v1.5 or later.
if your working copy is not in your GOPATH, you need to set it accordingly.

$ go build -o kubewatch main.go

You can also use the Makefile directly:

$ make build

Building with Docker

Buiding builder image:

$ make builder-image

Using the kubewatch-builder image to build kubewatch binary:

$ make binary-image
$ docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED              SIZE
kubewatch           latest              f1ade726c6e2        31 seconds ago       33.08 MB
kubewatch-builder   latest              6b2d325a3b88        About a minute ago   514.2 MB

Download kubewatch package

$ go get -u github.com/bitnami-labs/kubewatch

Configuration

Kubewatch supports config command for configuration. Config file will be saved at $HOME/.kubewatch.yaml

Configure slack

$ kubewatch config slack --channel <slack_channel> --token <slack_token>

Configure resources to be watched

// rc, po and svc will be watched
$ kubewatch config resource --rc --po --svc

// only svc will be watched
$ kubewatch config resource --svc

Environment variables

You have an altenative choice to set your SLACK token, channel via environment variables:

$ export KW_SLACK_TOKEN='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
$ export KW_SLACK_CHANNEL='#channel_name'

Run kubewatch locally

$ kubewatch

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