No to KubeView, Yes to gzip
I wanted to install KubeView, a tool for visualizing Kubernetes
clusters, as part of rebuilding my own cluster.
I discovered that the Helm chart created either an Ingress or a
LoadBalancer, so I submitted a
fix. Once I had it running, though, I didn’t find it
very useful: the main view offers little information and can’t even fit all the resources of a large
namespace.
Incidentally, it fetched 8.6 MB of data to show that view, all uncompressed since it was using the Vue dev server under the hood. I decided I could do without it.
This led me to re-examine my assumption that Argo CD was using gzip. Apparently not! That requires
passing the --enable-gzip flag (and presumably restarting the container, if you put it in the
argocd-cmd-params-cm ConfigMap). To be fair, compression is typically the responsibility of the
ingress controller. It’s just that I was primarily accessing Argo through port forwarding in those
early days.