Octant: A tool to help devs understand what's going on in a Kubernetes cluster

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18 points·mmcclure··7 comments

How does this differ from the official Kubernetes web dashboard?

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/...

Explanation by the co-authors here: https://twitter.com/mlbiam/status/1159164155255021569

why does it start up on a random port, which is different each time? and it's not configurable? that makes it a real pita to run in a docker container...which is kind of the environment.

It is configurable:

`OCTANT_LISTENER_ADDR=127.0.0.1:8900 octant`

thanks! i made a pull request to add to the docs. it's a cool project once i got this running.

(i'm the author)

We had a choice to make. We could have used a port, but then would have had to find a solution for when that port was used. So the choice was made to use a random port.

i think you should re-consider this choice for a few reasons. - every software has to do this, and they pretty much just do it and make it an option to configure. - just assume folks will run this in a docker container and it becomes an entirely mute point. - you have literally ostracized your core audience by making it impossible to run in a docker container.

just some thoughts. wish i could try it, but i'm not firing up my linux vm just to do so, knowing I can't run it reliably anywhere (because if it's choosing random ports, how will i now it won't randomly conflict with something?)

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