Zack's OpenShift Helpers

Background

This repository contains Golang programs which are most likely to be of use to fellow OpenShift developers, especially members of the machine-config-operator team. The helpers found here may be of use to you. They may not. They may completely break entirely.

It is worth mentioning that these helpers may get your cluster into a difficult-to-recover-from state. So do not use these on a production OpenShift cluster.

Installation

GitHub Releases

Pre-built binaries for Linux and Mac on both amd64 and aarch64 architectures are available for download via the GitHub Releases page. All one has to do is download them and place them somewhere in your PATH.

These binaries are built using goreleaser running as a GitHub Action. If you're using a Mac, you'll need to jump through a few hoops to make these work for right now.

In the future, I plan to make each individual binary available for download in addition to the current archive scheme.

Containers

Starting with v0.0.21, you can podman pull quay.io/zzlotnik/zacks-openshift-helpers:latest to get the latest version of these binaries. Images are built for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures. These images also contain the latest stable versions of the oc and kubectl commands since there are some portions of my helper binaries that shell out to these commands in order to take the path of least resistance.

Full list of tags may be found here.

It is also worth noting that these binaries are also baked into the following images as well, along with a few other of my favorite tools for working with Kubernetes clusters:

• quay.io/zzlotnik/toolbox:mco-fedora-39
• quay.io/zzlotnik/toolbox:mco-fedora-40

Note: Although these images are rebuilt daily, there will be up to a 24-hour delay between when the latest binaries are made available here and when they are available in those images.

Further Notes

• There is an experimental directory which contains purely experimental code. Use at your own risk.
• I purposely put all of my code under an internal/ directory as I do not want this repository to be depended on for right now. However, that might change in the future.
• I have a cron job that periodically deletes recently-run GitHub Actions.
• As of v0.0.20, the binaries are no longer built with CGO enabled.