How to build a custom pod view?

[TLINDEN]

Hi,

while it is already possible to customize the pod view, I couldn't find a way to create second custom pod view.

So, I'd like to have a custom resource name like "images" which shows "[namespace],pod,image,tag" and another one for normal pod view.

Currently I have:

[views."v1/pods"]
replace = true
columns = [
  { name = "NAME", builtin = "NAME" },
  { name = "READY", builtin = "READY" },
  { name = "STATUS", builtin = "STATUS" },
  { name = "RESTARTS", builtin = "RESTARTS" },
  { name = "CPU", metric = "cpu" },
  { name = "CPU/R", metric = "cpu-request", wide = true },
  { name = "%CPU/R", metric = "cpu-request-utilization", wide = true },
  { name = "%CPU/L", metric = "cpu-limit-utilization", wide = true },
  { name = "MEM", metric = "memory" },
  { name = "%MEM/R", metric = "memory-request-utilization", wide = true },
  { name = "%MEM/L", metric = "memory-limit-utilization", wide = true },
  { name = "AGE", builtin = "AGE" },
  { name = "SPILO-ROLE", path = "/metadata/labels/spilo-role" },
]

I'd need something like this in addition to the above:

[views."v1/pods".images]
replace = true
columns = [
  { name = "NAME", builtin = "NAME" },
  { name = "IMAGE", path = "/spec/containers/0/image", format = "image", wide = true },
  { name = "TAG", path = "/spec/containers/0/image", format = "image-tag", wide = true },
]

But this doesn't work, it loads, but I can't swith to this "image" view.

Is this possible somehow?

[nklmilojevic]

Not possible right now. Each resource has one layout (plus optional @namespace variants), so [views."v1/pods".images] is ignored. It should warn about that, and I'll fix it.

Closest you can get today is to put the image columns in your main pod view as wide-only columns and toggle them with w:

{ name = "IMAGE", path = "/spec/containers/0/image", wide = true },
{ name = "TAG", path = "/spec/containers/0/image", format = "image-tag", wide = true },

(format = "image" doesn't exist; leave format off to get the full image string.)

Named view variants (something like [views."pods:images"] plus :pods:images, or a key to cycle through them) sound useful. I'll think about the shape.

[TLINDEN]

Ok, I'll put those into the wide mode.

I'd appreciate your suggestion about named view variants :)

[nklmilojevic]

Thanks again for raising this! I've opened #884 for named view layouts, so follow that one for progress. The missing warning for ignored view keys is fixed in #883. Closing this discussion.