ahmetb/kubectl-tree

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A kubectl plugin that visualizes ownership relationships between Kubernetes objects as a tree, based on ownerReferences. It is installed via krew and helps explore how resources like Deployments, ReplicaSets, and Pods relate hierarchically.

Use cases

• visualize kubernetes object hierarchy as a tree
• find which pods belong to a deployment
• debug ownership relationships between kubernetes resources
• explore knative service child resources
• filter kubernetes api resources when traversing object trees
• inspect ownerReferences relationships in a cluster

When to choose

• you need to see parent-child ownership chains of Kubernetes objects
• you want a quick krew-installable kubectl plugin with no extra setup
• you work with controllers like Knative or Agones that create nested resources
• you need to scope traversal with label selectors or resource filters in large clusters

When to avoid

• you need logical relationships beyond ownerReferences (consider kubectl lineage)
• you need a GUI dashboard for cluster visualization
• you are not using kubectl or Kubernetes

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools monitoring developer-tools cli cross-platform go kubectl-plugin kubernetes krew object-hierarchy owner-references tree-visualization containers devops command-line

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