A record-and-replay simulation environment for the Kubernetes control plane based on KWOK.
Overview #
This package provides the following components:
skctl: a CLI utility for interacting with various other SimKube componentssk-ctrl: a Kubernetes Controller that watches for Simulation custom resources and runs a simulation based on the provided trace file.sk-driver: the actual runner for a specific simulation, created as a Kubernetes Job bysk-ctrlsk-tracer: a watcher for Kubernetes pod creation and deletion events, saves these events in a replayable trace format.
Installation #
- To install
sk-tracerin your prod cluster:kubectl apply -k k8s/kustomize/prod - To install
sk-ctrlin your simulation cluster:kubectl apply -k k8s/kustomize/sim - To install
skctlon your dev machine:cargo install skctl
Documentation #
Full documentation for SimKube is available on Applied Computing's website. Here are some quick links to select topics:
Architecture Diagram #
Community #
We have a channel on the Kubernetes Slack instance! Come chat with us there. (You can sign up for the Kubernetes Slack instance for free)
Contributing #
We welcome any and all contributions to the SimKube project! Please open a pull request.
If you have a feature request, please start a discussion. Members of the SimKube team will determine whether the feature should become planned work and how it will be prioritized.
If you've found a bug or are working on a planned improvement, please open an issue!
Code of Conduct #
Applied Computing Research Labs has a strict code of conduct we expect all contributors to adhere to. Please read the full text so that you understand the expectations upon you as a contributor.
Copyright and Licensing #
SimKube is licensed under the MIT License. Contributors to this project agree that they own the copyrights to all contributed material, and agree to license your contributions under the same terms. This is "inbound=outbound", and is the GitHub default.
Warning
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