Dashboard: Roundup of other K8s UIs

[danielromlein]

1. What other UIs for K8s exist? In the interest of building the best possible product for our users, I think it'd be helpful to consider how other teams are tackling similar issues.
2. More generally, what other container orchestration UIs exist? @bgrant0607 proposed this list of cluster management tools.

cc @floreks @maciaszczykm

[bgrant0607]

Cockpit:
http://stef.thewalter.net/cockpit-kubernetes-dashboard.html
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterprise-linux-atomic-host/7/single/getting-started-with-cockpit/
Techtonic console:
https://tectonic.com/
Cabin (mobile):
http://www.skippbox.com/announcing-cabin-the-first-mobile-app-for-kubernetes/

Related UIs:

Openshift console:
https://docs.openshift.org/latest/getting_started/developers_console.html
Weavescope:
https://medium.com/google-cloud/using-kube-ui-and-weave-scope-with-google-container-engine-63fadf9656f#.2drcpetm5
Rancher:
http://rancher.com/kubernetes/
Navops:
http://www.navops.io/launch.html

Other systems:

Mesos:
https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon-ui
https://github.com/Capgemini/mesos-ui

[colemickens]

ElastiKube seems visually pleasing and functional.

[danielromlein]

Thanks @bgrant0607! That's exactly what I was looking for.
Yeah @colemickens ElastiKube seems to do a pretty good job of incorporating Material. I hadn't seen that before.

[ianlewis]

@romlein @bgrant0607 In order to turn this into an action item, is this something something that is missing that we could add to the Kubernetes docs? I feel it might be out of place here since Dashboard is just one UI.

[bgrant0607]

http://fabric8.io/guide/console.html

[danielromlein]

Sorry @IanLewis I'm not sure I follow? I was intending this to be a way to research how other people are problems similar to the ones we're tackling in Dashboard. I think as a Dashboard product team we should at least be aware of how other groups are doing things.

[edouardKaiser]

Disclaimer: I'm not bashing the dashboard (that we love very much and we use it every day). I just want to use this opportunity to lay out a couple of stuff that we also particularly appreciate in the Tectonic Console:

• Global stream of events (that's just the best, love this one)

• Friendly label modification on every ressource (specially useful on the Nodes, something we cannot do in the Dashboard right now):

• Search feature

• More Details on the container running (health check configuration, mounted volumes, resource limits...)

• Download YAML

• Globally, the resource modification is very friendly, example of "Deployment" edition:

It's not perfect, there is no PetSet, Jobs, Daemon Sets, Secrets, Config Maps management....

[ianlewis]

@romlein Ok. You just filed an issue so I assumed there was some kind of bug or issue that needed to be addressed.

I thought if we want to have a general discussion then something like sharing a Google doc or discussion on the sig-ui Slack or sig-ui mailing list would be better.

[bryk]

@edouardKaiser Thanks for listing all those features that we don't have. I'm super happy that you did this! :) We turn such requests into actual work.

[danielromlein]

@IanLewis sorry for the delay in response. Ah, I see your point. That is an interesting idea about including this info somewhere in our docs. @bryk WDYT? At the least, I'm putting together a Google Doc with the summary roundup of other UIs.

[bryk]

@romlein Sounds like an awesome idea.

[cristim]

I think spinnaker can also be used to some degree as a GUI for kubernetes

[maciaszczykm]

Closing because the discussion will follow in #2508.