I've never needed the distributed nature of Kubernetes, but I dig the notion of using a spreadsheet as a control interface. Does anyone know of a similar paradigm for other sysadmin applications?
Infrastructure as Excel for Cloud Services:)
xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
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Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#22Better than yaml.
Spreadsheets are underused as an UI. Every time you embed a table component in your app you probably wouldn’t complain about it being one.
Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#23Love it. For a different sort of person, but there's some rather old efforts to expose Kubernetes & Etcd under FUSE , which would also be neat direct access. https://github.com/opencredo/KubeFuse https://github.com/cstavr/etcdfs And since I was curious, there's also a spreadsheet to FUSE too, https://github.com/mk270/xls-fuse As far as I know, the only 3d representation of Kubernetes is KubeDoom, https://github.com/s…
There was https://eric-jadi.medium.com/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-c... too.
Just need Factorio integration. Given output from k describe pods -A, generate a blueprint with ingress represented by a belt balancer/splitter bit that feeds into furnaces leading to assemblers leading into boxes representing storage or something.
Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#24Love it.
I generally avoided excel when my previous role was a dev.
Now, leading a team - I find it more useful as it's a little universe to add various computations (counts, min, max) of various sorts of data that I want to keep track across projects & create charts etc, create rapid UIs (project timelines etc) and easily change them when required, invite collaborators, use that to replace slides to drive meeting discussions
It's quite versatile. I had never considered this angle of using it to manage and sync with something external like Kubernetes here and love it.
I wish someone also solved the issue with excel around refactoring though - esp when cells are being used in formulas, if there was a "Find All References" or Cmd+SHIFT+F (global find) of elements used in formula (not their values) - it would step it up even more towards maintainability.
(I understand it buckles under huge datasets, but I believe that's really over-use of the tool)
Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#25I've never needed the distributed nature of Kubernetes, but I dig the notion of using a spreadsheet as a control interface. Does anyone know of a similar paradigm for other sysadmin applications?
https://github.com/storax/kubedoom
Obligatory Doom mention
Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#26Love it. I generally avoided excel when my previous role was a dev. Now, leading a team - I find it more useful as it's a little universe to add various computations (counts, min, max) of various sorts of data that I want to keep track across projects & create charts etc, create rapid UIs (project timelines etc) and easily change them when required, invite collaborators, use that to replace slides to drive meeting di…
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Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#27I've never needed the distributed nature of Kubernetes, but I dig the notion of using a spreadsheet as a control interface. Does anyone know of a similar paradigm for other sysadmin applications?
k3s with the default SQLite based storage instead of ETCD works very well for single node kubernetes instances.
Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#28Better than yaml. Spreadsheets are underused as an UI. Every time you embed a table component in your app you probably wouldn’t complain about it being one.
the bar is in hell
Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#29Amazing. I used to run a startup that allowed you to write Python scripts that streamed data into Excel in real time - for eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8ddmui/rea...
The python scripts were deployed PaaS style into a Kubernetes cluster.
If only we'd had the insight to manage our control plane via Excel also, we'd probably be squillionaires by now. :P
Re: xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster
#30> xlskubectl integrates Google Spreadsheet with Kubernetes
Great trolling in the name as well