The Must Have Tool for Devops & SREs
Alex Jones from Canonical describes why Kubeshark is a must have tool for Devops and SREs, and provides a brief history of Wireshark and the importance of network analysis.
Real-time K8s protocol-level visibility, capturing and monitoring all traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers, pods, nodes and clusters.
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Step 1
Install the CLI using a simple shell script:
sh <(curl -Ls https://kubeshark.co/install)
Alternatively, you can download the latest release of Kubeshark CLI directly from GitHub
Step 2
Start capturing traffic:
kubeshark tap
Ready!
Step 1
Add the Helm repository and install:
helm repo add kubeshark https://helm.kubeshark.co
helm install kubeshark kubeshark/kubeshark
Step 2
Enable dashboard access:
kubectl port-forward -n kubeshark service/kubeshark-hub 8898:80 & kubectl port-forward -n kubeshark service/kubeshark-front 8899:80
Step 3
Visit localhost:8899 to view real time streaming traffic
Ready!
Step 1
Add the Homebrew repository and install:
brew tap kubeshark/kubeshark & brew install kubeshark
Step 2
Start capturing traffic:
kubeshark tap
Ready!
Step 1
Clone:
git clone kubeshark/kubeshark
Step 2
Build:
cd kubeshark & make
Step 3
Start capturing traffic:
bin/kubeshark__ tap
Ready!
Gain protocol-level visibility to K8s’ internal network in all parts of the cluster.
Use the dashboard to filter streaming traffic and application layer protocols in real-time using a rich query language.
Get going in <60 seconds with no need for coding, proxy, CNI, sidecar, service mesh or any other preparation.
View an identity-aware service map showing service-to-service connectivity data.
Stream network metrics and schema-free documents to your favorite telemetry or log aggregation application.
Supporting InfluxDB, Grafana and Elasticsearch with more integrations to follow.
Detect suspicious network behaviors in real-time.
Upload network traces (PCAPs) to AWS S3 and send Slack alerts.
Write custom-logic scripts in conjunction with OSI L4/L7 hooks.
Alex Jones from Canonical describes why Kubeshark is a must have tool for Devops and SREs, and provides a brief history of Wireshark and the importance of network analysis.
Abhishek Veeramalla from Red Hat uses Kubeshark to demonstrate how traffic is flowing in K8s as part of a complete DevOps course.
Harsha Koushik, a security engineer, is using Kubeshark for traffic monitoring and threat modeling while comparing to other tools in the industry.