Aksimuth 0.16: change many at once, keep what you watch, sign in where you work
Aksimuth 0.16 works on many objects at a time, remembers the objects and lists you come back to, signs in to clusters whose credential plugins ask for a code, and reaches further into AKS: GPUs, Log Analytics and Linux on Arm. Every change still goes through the same permission check, server dry run and one-use confirmation.
Change many at once.
- Select rows in any list and restart, scale, cordon, suspend, label or delete them together. Each object is permission-checked and dry-run first; one preview shows what each will do and which ones won’t, and you confirm once for exactly that list.
- A delete is bound to the very object you previewed, so a pod re-created under the same name is never removed by mistake. Deleting namespaces, nodes or volumes asks for their names.
- Force Delete for a stuck pod explains what it does and never removes finalizers.
Keep what you watch.
- Pin objects and kinds to the sidebar with their live status.
- Save a filtered list (namespace, selector, filter, sort, columns, status) under a name, for one cluster or any.
- Filter pods by status (Running, CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff and more) and workloads by health, and choose default columns for every cluster.
- Split View puts two clusters, or two views of one, side by side, each with its own Production and Read-only state.
Sign in where you work.
- A kubelogin device code is shown in the window, with Copy Code and Open in Browser, and an exec plugin’s password or MFA prompt is answered there too. What you type goes only to the plugin and is never stored.
- A plugin that would wait unseen is stopped and the cluster asks you to sign in again, instead of hanging.
- Azure Government and Azure China clusters are discovered like any other.
Further into AKS.
- Cluster › Accelerators: which nodes have GPUs and other accelerators, who holds them, which pods are waiting for one and why, driver and device plugin health, and DCGM metrics where they exist.
- Log Analytics, off until you turn it on: logs and events from Container Insights for pods that are gone or ranges the node no longer keeps, a metrics fallback, and a read-only KQL box. Agents can read the same records by choosing a table, filters and columns; Aksimuth writes the query.
- Linux on Arm64, with updates.
Lighter.
- Large lists scroll more smoothly and use less memory while they do, open lists read their objects once, and an idle window does almost nothing.