Day-to-day operations

Kubron brings common Kubernetes troubleshooting and operational actions into the same workspace as resource browsing.

Workloads

From resource details and workload views you can:

• inspect Pods, containers, conditions, events and ownership;
• read container logs, including a live log stream;
• open an interactive terminal in a container when Kubernetes RBAC and Kubron permissions allow it;
• evict a Pod;
• scale Deployments, StatefulSets and ReplicaSets;
• restart Deployments, StatefulSets and DaemonSets;
• inspect Deployment rollout revisions and roll back to a previous revision;
• retry Jobs, trigger CronJobs and change their suspended state.

Actions that change cluster state are permission-checked by Kubron and Kubernetes.

Nodes

Inspect node details and perform common maintenance actions:

• cordon a node to stop scheduling new Pods;
• drain a node to evict eligible workloads;
• open a node shell when explicitly permitted.

The node shell is a privileged operation: it uses a privileged helper Pod with access to the host. It has a separate Kubron permission (nodeshell); by default, only administrators receive it.

Logs, terminals and port-forward

• Pod logs can be viewed on demand or followed as a live stream.
• Pod terminals use Kubernetes exec/attach.
• Port-forward can target a Pod or a Service.

Desktop port-forward opens a local address on the same computer as Kubron. In Web service mode, port-forward is disabled unless the operator configures KUBRON_PF_BASE_DOMAIN, wildcard DNS and a wildcard TLS certificate. This uses a per-stream proxy origin rather than exposing a listening port on the server host.

Server operators can disable interactive features globally with KUBRON_DISABLE_EXEC, KUBRON_DISABLE_NODE_SHELL and KUBRON_DISABLE_PORT_FORWARD. Per-user limits and session timeouts also apply.

Metrics

Kubron can optionally install a small metrics stack in the active cluster:

• Prometheus
• kube-state-metrics
• node-exporter

When it is available, Kubron can show resource usage, trends and workload/volume hotspots. Metrics are optional; the core resource browser and cluster overview do not require this stack.

Installing or removing the stack changes cluster resources and requires the appropriate write permission.

Edition availability

Capability	Desktop	Web
Pod logs	Yes	Yes
Pod terminal (exec/attach)	Yes	Yes, subject to server policy
Node shell	Yes, subject to permissions	Yes, subject to server policy and permissions
Port-forward	Local port	Local single-user mode, or proxy mode configured by the server operator
Optional metrics stack	Yes	Yes

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