Searchable list, linkable resource, copyable text and external terminal

[zmx]

Hi!

I am a new user come from OpenLens/Lens.

** Feature I missed **

Searchable Resource List
I saw there is searchable namespace list in v3 but not yet implement in v4. This could be also expand to other resources.

Linkable Resource
Take example: Pod page already have metadata shows which DaemonSet it belong, which node it hosted. They should be clickable and jump to corresponding page

Copyable Text
Almost all text displayed should be copyable: pod name, ConfigMaps, Secrets. This is especially useful when you communicate with another human, or you want copy them into a terminal

** Feature I hoped **

External Terminal
Daily we still need using some shell command in Pod. ( Don't blame me, corporate policy forbidden SWE have pod access to some cluster, they need go through we SRE. I feel sorry for them ). Optionally calling external terminal would greatly smooth the works.

kubectl command mode
Web browser developer console have the feature to convert a Network Request to curl command. It would be great to "convert to kubectl" for things like: get resource yaml, get pod log, get pod shell

[ricoberger]

Hi @zmx thanks for all your input 🙂.

Searchable Resource List
I saw there is searchable namespace list in v3 but not yet implement in v4. This could be also expand to other resources.

Resources can already be filtered and for namespaces I added this feature in #502.

I'm not sure about a "real search" feature, where you can search for resource without that they were loaded in before. The problem here is that we would still have to load all resources from the Kubernetes API and filter them on the client side.

Linkable Resource
Take example: Pod page already have metadata shows which DaemonSet it belong, which node it hosted. They should be clickable and jump to corresponding page

For involved objects and the owner reference this was implemented in #496 some days ago^^. For nodes I added this in #500. If you have other resources which should be linked please let me know. Currently this only works for the default resources, but not for CRDs, but I'm looking for a solution here.

Copyable Text
Almost all text displayed should be copyable: pod name, ConfigMaps, Secrets. This is especially useful when you communicate with another human, or you want copy them into a terminal

I made some of the values selectable / copyable in #501. It's not that easy to provide this out of the box for everything, so I would like to added only where it is needed.

External Terminal
Daily we still need using some shell command in Pod. ( Don't blame me, corporate policy forbidden SWE have pod access to some cluster, they need go through we SRE. I feel sorry for them ). Optionally calling external terminal would greatly smooth the works.

Sorry, I think I didn't get this completly. Do you mean that an external terminal should be opened instead of the internal terminal for "kubectl exec" commands?

kubectl command mode
Web browser developer console have the feature to convert a Network Request to curl command. It would be great to "convert to kubectl" for things like: get resource yaml, get pod log, get pod shell

This is a great idea and I will look into it. At the moment I'm struggling the most on how to integrate this into the UI, if you have any ideas on this please let me know.

[zmx]

Sorry, I think I didn't get this completly. Do you mean that an external terminal should be opened instead of the internal terminal for "kubectl exec" commands?

Yes. calling Terminal / iTerm to execute the kubectl exec into pod shell