KubeBuddy: An Agentless Second Opinion for Kubernetes

Kubernetes is very good at reporting desired state. A Deployment can be available while its pods restart every few hours. A cluster can show green nodes while workloads have no disruption budgets, probes, resource limits, or network isolation. Dashboards show signals; they do not necessarily connect them into an operational judgment. That is the gap KubeBuddy tries to fill. The open-source KubeDeck project is a Go-based command-line scanner that connects through an existing Kubernetes context and evaluates cluster health, workloads, security, RBAC, networking, storage, and configuration. It can add provider-specific checks for AKS and GKE and emit terminal, HTML, JSON, and CSV output. There is no controller, Helm release, or long-running agent to install in the cluster. ...

September 6, 2026 · 7 min · 1439 words · Jurgen Allewijn

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