The goal of kask is to enrich the world of
krew with graphics. Whereas
krew allows users to install terminal-based extensions to kubectl,
kask aims to allow users to install graphical plugins. We consider a
graphical plugin to kubectl one that starts from a terminal, but,
rather than responding to commands with ASCII art, responds instead
with a graphical popup window.
Coming soon
kask acts as a front-end to Kui. Kui
is a project that leverages electron and
webpack to deliver a graphically enhanced
terminal experience. kask thusly has the following responsibilities:
- Fetch a base Kui electron build.
- Invoke Kui's plugin manager to provision a plugin (say "xxx") that the user has selected
- Generate and place the
kubectl-xxxstubs such thatkubectl xxxworks to transparently pop up an electron window that provides the graphical response to the user's command line.
kask is written as a Go project. As such,
it has the normal development environment. TO start, you will need to
have Go development environment installed on your machine; this
includes setting up a
GOPATH.
cd $GOPATH && git clone git@github.com:kui-shell/kask.git kui-shell/kask
$ go get
$ go test ./...$ go build
./kask version