Add --timestamp and --colored-output support

Changes

• Add --timestamps support
• Add --colored-output flag support

Example usage with overrides (on Windows):

.\podtail.exe --kubectl "D:\somerandomdir\kubectl.exe" --kubeconfig "C:/what/is/this/nonsense/config

Known Issues

Colour choice is poor/limited, will need to investigate other options that provide better colour support on both linux/osx and windows.

Compatibility with kubetail

This release has partial compatibility with kubetail as follows:

Supported

• -h, --help
• -t, --context
• -l, --selector
• -n, --namespace
• -s, --since
• -e, --regex
• --tail
• -v, --version
• -k, --colored-output
• --timestamps

Not yet implemeted

• -c, --container
• -b, --line-buffered
• -j, --jq
• -z, --skip-colors

Fix context, tail and error handling

Huge thanks to @michaeltlombardi for helping test !!

Changes

• Fix context handling, had been getting added to the command as base16 rather than a string
• Improve error handling, prints the command being executed and the error returned from it
• Removes debug statement left in by mistake

Example usage with overrides (on Windows):

.\podtail.exe --kubectl "D:\somerandomdir\kubectl.exe" --kubeconfig "C:/what/is/this/nonsense/config

Known Issues

Colour choice is poor/limited, will need to investigate other options that provide better colour support on both linux/osx and windows.

Compatibility with kubetail

This release has partial compatibility with kubetail as follows:

Supported

• -h, --help
• -t, --context
• -l, --selector
• -n, --namespace
• -s, --since
• -e, --regex
• --tail
• -v, --version

Not yet implemeted

• -c, --container
• -b, --line-buffered
• -j, --jq
• -k, --colored-output
• -z, --skip-colors
• --timestamps

Fix tail goroutine spawning

Changes

• Fixed the way in which tail goroutines are spawned, previously only the last pod was being tailed.

Example usage with overrides (on Windows):

.\podtail.exe --kubectl "D:\somerandomdir\kubectl.exe" --kubeconfig "C:/what/is/this/nonsense/config

Known Issues

Colour choice is poor/limited, will need to investigate other options that provide better colour support on both linux/osx and windows.

Compatibility with kubetail

This release has partial compatibility with kubetail as follows:

Supported

• -h, --help
• -t, --context
• -l, --selector
• -n, --namespace
• -s, --since
• -e, --regex
• --tail
• -v, --version

Not yet implemeted

• -c, --container
• -b, --line-buffered
• -j, --jq
• -k, --colored-output
• -z, --skip-colors
• --timestamps

Custom kubectl and kubeconf and some colour tweaks for Powershell

Changes

• Added --kubectl flag to allow user to specify explicit location of the kubectl executable.
• Added --kubecont flag to allow user to specify explicit location of the kube config file.
• Removed some colours that render poorly on Powershell.

Example usage with overrides (on Windows):

.\podtail.exe --kubectl "D:\somerandomdir\kubectl.exe" --kubeconfig "C:/what/is/this/nonsense/config

Known Issues

Colour choice is poor/limited, will need to investigate other options that provide better colour support on both linux/osx and windows.

Compatibility with kubetail

This release has partial compatibility with kubetail as follows:

Supported

• -h, --help
• -t, --context
• -l, --selector
• -n, --namespace
• -s, --since
• -e, --regex
• --tail
• -v, --version

Not yet implemeted

• -c, --container
• -b, --line-buffered
• -j, --jq
• -k, --colored-output
• -z, --skip-colors
• --timestamps

Early Release

This release has partial compatibility with kubetail as follows:

Supported

• -h, --help
• -t, --context
• -l, --selector
• -n, --namespace
• -s, --since
• -e, --regex
• --tail
• -v, --version

Not yet implemeted

• -c, --container
• -b, --line-buffered
• -j, --jq
• -k, --colored-output
• -z, --skip-colors
• --timestamps