k8s-clean-yaml

Clean useless fields in kubernetes manifests

Download and Install

git clone https://github.com/ltmleo/k8s-clean-yaml.git
cd k8s-clean-yaml
pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo ln -s $(pwd)/clean-yaml.py /usr/local/bin/cleanyaml

Dependencies

• python: >= 3.6
• PyYAMl: >= 5.3.1

How to use

Kubernetes have a ton of useless fields in manifests, to clean these fields, you can execute: kubectl get pods -o yaml | cleanyaml or cleanyaml manifest.yaml

Remove custom fiels

To remove custom fields you just need to add them to FIELDS_TO_RM dictionary.

By default this fields are being removed:

{
"metadata": {
    "annotations": {
        "kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration": " ",
        "autoscaling.alpha.kubernetes.io/conditions": " ",
        "control-plane.alpha.kubernetes.io/leader": " "
    },
    "generation": " ",
    "creationTimestamp": " ",
    "resourceVersion": " ",
    "selfLink": " ",
    "uid": " ",
    "managedFields": " "
},
"spec": {
    "clusterIP": " ",
    "clusterIPs": " ",
    "finalizers": " "
},
"status": " "
}

Colaborate

All ideas and improvements are welcome!!