kubepfm is a simple wrapper to kubectl port-forward command. It can start multiple kubectl port-forward processes based on the number of input target pods. At the moment, if you have multiple pods per deployment, it will choose the first one listed from the kubectl get pod command. Terminating the tool (Ctrl-C) will also terminate all running kubectl sub-processes.
$ go get -u -v github.com/flowerinthenight/kubepfm$ kubepfm --target [namespace:]pod-name-or-pattern:local-port:pod-port --target ...If the [namespace:] part is not specified, the default namespace is used.
This tool uses regexp.FindAllString to resolve the input pattern. If your pattern includes : in it (i.e. [[:alpha:]]), then you need to include the namespace part, as this tool uses the : character as its input separator.
# Simple pattern, namespace not needed
$ kubepfm --target mypod:8080:1222
# Pattern with a `:` in it, namespace is required
$ kubepfm --target "default:mypo[[:alpha:]]:8080:1222"Finally, the .* string is appended to the input pod-name-or-pattern before it is resolved.
# Example pods:
$ kubectl get pod
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
mypod-7c497c9d94-8xls2 1/1 Running 0 7d
otherpod-5987f84db4-9mhxf 1/1 Running 0 4d
hispod-7d8c4cbd9-dqjc6 1/1 Running 0 21d
herpod-7d48964997-d6pgs 1/1 Running 0 3d
# Do a port-forward to two pods using port 1222 to our local 8080 and 8081 ports:
$ kubepfm --target mypod:8080:1222 --target otherpod:8081:1222
2019/02/19 18:40:05 [info] Your pods:
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
default mypod-7c497c9d94-8xls2 1/1 Running 0 7d
default otherpod-5987f84db4-9mhxf 1/1 Running 0 4d
default hispod-7d8c4cbd9-dqjc6 1/1 Running 0 21d
default herpod-7d48964997-d6pgs 1/1 Running 0 3d
...
kube-system heapster-v1.5.3-6b684ff798-98tn2 3/3 Running 0 27d
kube-system kube-dns-788979dc8f-287w8 4/4 Running 0 45d
...
# Both pods are now accessible from localhost:
# localhost:8080 -> mypod, localhost:8081 -> otherpod