Monokle
Desktop IDE

Monokle Desktop is the only IDE dedicated to high-quality Kubernetes YAML configurations

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For engineers looking to improve their Monokle Cloud experience on GitHub

For teams automating the validation of their configurations on GitHub

For engineers adding extensive resource validation in their existing workflows

For engineers that create and maintain high-quality Kubernetes Deployments

Monokle helps you create, preview and validate high-quality Kustomize overlays - before deploying them to your clusters

Monokle helps you create, preview and validate high-quality Helm Charts - before deploying them to your clusters

Monokle has built in support for Istio CRDs - making it easy to create and validate these before you deploy them to your cluster

Monokle has built in support for Cert-Manager CRDs - making it easy to create and validate these before you deploy them to your cluster

Monokle has built in support for Sealed Secrets - making it easy to validate these right before you deploy them to your cluster

Monokle uses the same security and performance policies as the popular Trivvy tool

Monokle uses OPA to validate your Kubernetes manifests against common security and performance rules and policies

Monokle ensures the quality of your Flux GitOps repositories - before reconciling them with your clusters

Monokle has extensive support for learning CRDs in your configurations and clusters, including CR validation and generation, generated Forms and syntax highlighting

Monokle ensures the quality of your ArgoCD GitOps repositories - before reconciling them with your clusters

Monokle can visualize and validate the output YAMLs of any command-line tool, including CDK8s

Monokle can visualize and validate the output YAMLs of any command-line tool, including tanka.dev

Monokle can visualize and validate the output YAMLs of any command-line tool, including KPT

Explore, Create and Validate K8s YAML resources and their relationships using k8s-aware editors, validation engines and visualisation components.

Connect to your Clusters to inspect, troubleshoot and fix live resources.

Dry-run Helm Charts and Kustomize Overlays to debug and validate their output before committing or deploying them.

Take the pain out of K8s manifest creation and exploration

Explore

Work with any local and git based project containing Kubernetes Manifests.
Visualise relationships and dependencies between configuration files and K8s resources.

Create

Low to no-YAML resource generation.
Leverage Templates for easy and consistent resource creation.
Direct resource editing with Forms and k8s aware source editors.
Use Schemas and CRDs for additional resource generation.

Compare

Quickly see the differences across Git branches and/or repositories.
Compare resources across namespaces and clusters.
Identify and understand the differences between your local configuration and what's running in cluster.

Validate your K8s templates and resources before you commit

Dry-run

Preview Helm Charts and Kustomize overlays to avoid merging misconfigurations to Git.
Validate the output of dry-runs to make sure your templates follow standards and guidelines.

Validate

Real-time visibility of validation and configuration errors and policy compliance with provided context for faster troubleshooting.
Set up custom validation policies in line with your project or team requirements.
Hook the output of any CLI tool into Monokles validation capabilities.

Commit / Deploy

Work directly with Git to update your configuration repositories.
Deploy Helm Charts, Kustomize Overlays and standalon K8s resources directly to your clusters.

Inspect your Clusters for compliance and troubleshooting

Inspect & Analyze

Overview of all resources in your cluster, including custom resource kinds.
Easily identify resource dependencies and relationships.

Troubleshoot

Identify potential security and performance issues in your deployed resources.
Drill down into Kubernetes Events and Pod Logs.
Compare clusters and namespaces to identify configuration drift.

Fix

Fix found configuration errors directly in your clusters.
Run shell commands in running workloads.

End-to-End Tools To Support Entire Manifest Lifecycle

Create K8s YAML configurations using templates and CRDs.
Compare & preview K8s resources, including dry-runs of Helm and Kustomize.
Analyze resource relationships, configurations, & policy compliance in the pre-deployment stage.
Commit to Git and automate deployment workflows.
Inspect and manage cluster.

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End of Life Announcement for Monokle Cloud

All Monokle Open-Source products WILL continue to exist in their corresponding GitHub repos but support for the commercial Monokle Cloud application is ending.

April 17, 2024

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Monokle
Desktop IDE