https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor

Colorize your kubectl output
https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor

bash cli kubectl kubectl-plugins kubernetes

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Colorize your kubectl output

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor
• Owner: kubecolor
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-09-23T18:51:25.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-05-05T16:07:49.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-08T01:43:07.493Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: bash, cli, kubectl, kubectl-plugins, kubernetes
• Language: Go
• Homepage: https://kubecolor.github.io/
• Size: 3.53 MB
• Stars: 998
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 32
• Open Issues: 16
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
![Kubecolor logo](./assets/img/Kubecolor_Logo_large.png)

# kubecolor

Kubecolor is a `kubectl` wrapper used to add colors to your kubectl output.

[![test](https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor/actions/workflows/test.yml)

[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor)

[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/kubecolor/kubecolor/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/kubecolor/kubecolor)

![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-get-pods.svg)

![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-apply.svg)

![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-describe-pod.svg)

You can also change color theme for light-background environment (click to expand)

> ![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-get-pods-light.svg)

>

> ![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-apply-light.svg)

>

> ![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-describe-pod-light.svg)

[New!] We also have colorblind-adjusted color themes (click to expand)

> ![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-get-pods-protanopia.svg)

>

> ![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-get-pods-deuteranopia.svg)

>

> ![screenshot](./docs/kubectl-get-pods-tritanopia.svg)

>

> **Note:**

> As of version `v0.3.0`, both `deuteranopia` and `tritanopia` themes are the same as `protanopia`. They may differ in future versions when we better tune them. Set your configuration to match your color-blindness type so you will benefit of the future changes. We gladly accept suggestions on how to improve them.

## What's this?

kubecolor is a wrapper that colorizes your `kubectl` command output and does nothing else.

It internally calls `kubectl` command and try to colorizes the output so

you can alias kubecolor as a substitute for when you want to run kubectl,

meaning you can write this in your `.bash_profile`:

```sh

alias kubectl="kubecolor"

# Also works for OpenShift CLI

alias oc="env KUBECTL_COMMAND=oc kubecolor"

```

## Features

- Does not tamper with the output. It only adds colors to the `kubectl` output.

- Dynamic TTY detection to send plaintext when called programatically

- Supports autocompletion

- [Custom color themes](https://kubecolor.github.io/customizing/themes/)

## Getting started

Head over to our documentation:

- [Usage / **Getting started**](https://kubecolor.github.io/usage/getting-started/)

- [Usage / **How it works**](https://kubecolor.github.io/usage/how-it-works/)

- [Setup / **Installation**](https://kubecolor.github.io/setup/install/)

## Contributing

Always welcome. There are multiple ways to contribute:

- Starring the repository and spreading the word ❤️

- Creating issues of [bug reports](https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor/issues/new?template=bug.yml)

  or [feature requets](https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor/issues/new?template=feature.yml)

- Updating documentation, either in this repo or in the [documentation repo (kubecolor.github.io)](https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor.github.io)

- Submitting patches

  (look for ["good first issue"](https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)

  if you want something small to get started)

For code contributions, please see: [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Versioning

This project tries to follow [SemVer 2.0.0](https://semver.org/)

on the command-line interface (CLI), i.e which flags and environment variables

it accepts.

**We do not** however promise compatibility on the Go source code.

If you import kubecolor's Go module and use it as a library, then things may

unexpectedly break within minor or patch version changes.

> [!WARNING]

> As we have not yet reached v1.0.0, we may have some breaking changes

> in cases where it is deemed necessary.

## LICENSE

MIT

## Author

This project is a heavily modified version of the original kubecolor,

archived at [https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor](https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor)

[@kubecolor](https://github.com/kubecolor)