KubeMicro-Visualizer

This is showing the visualizer in action!
Chaos testing: Kill any service and watch failures cascade through dependent services in real-time

Inspiration

We wanted to solve a fundamental problem in Kubernetes development: understanding what's actually running in your cluster. When you deploy microservices architectures with dozens of interconnected services, it's nearly impossible to visualize dependencies, trace traffic flow, or debug failures. Existing tools either show static diagrams from documentation or require complex setup. We asked: "What if you could deploy any architecture and instantly see it come to life?"

What it does

KubeSight is a real-time Kubernetes network visualizer that turns YAML manifests into interactive network graphs in seconds.

User Flow:

Select an architecture - Choose from industry-standard demo architectures (Google Boutique, Sock Shop, Bookinfo, Yelb)
Visualize live topology - Interactive graph displays services, pods, dependencies, and real-time traffic flow
Test failures - Chaos controls let you kill services and watch cascading failures propagate through the system

How we built it

Backend: Go with Kubernetes client-go library. Custom topology discovery algorithm lists pods/services, matches them via label selectors, and detects dependencies by parsing environment variables. REST API handles deployment, status polling, and chaos testing.

Frontend: Landing page uses js-yaml to parse manifests with a loading overlay. React + Vis.js visualizer renders the network graph with real-time updates (2-second polling).

Infrastructure: Minikube cluster with 4 isolated namespaces.

Challenges we ran into

Resource limits: Deploying 26 pods simultaneously crashed minikube's API server
Dependency detection: K8s doesn't store service dependencies, so we extracted them from pod environment variables
Hosting it non-locally: we had issues with having a lot of files.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Truly dynamic - works with any K8s architecture, not hardcoded demos
4 industry demo architecture - Google Boutique, Sock Shop, Bookinfo, Yelb all working
Polished UX - landing page → loading screen → interactive visualizer
Chaos testing - kill services and watch cascading failures in real-time