Find kubernetes resources which are not managed via GitOps (flux2). Wether you are migrating to a GitOps workflow or have pruning disabled. This tool will help in either case.

How does it work?

gitops-zombies discovers all apis installed on a cluster and identifies resources which are not part of a flux Kustomization or a HelmRelease. It also acknowledges the following facts:

• Ignores resources which are owned by a parent resource (For example pods which are created by a deployment)
• Ignores resources which are considered dynamic (metrics, leases, events, endpoints, ...)
• Filter out resources which are created by the apiserver itself (like default rbacs)
• Filters secrets which are managed by other parties including helm or ServiceAccount tokens
• Checks if the referenced HelmRelease or Kustomization exists
• Checks if resources are still part of the kustomization inventory
• Supports cross cluster kustomizations

Installation

For Linux and Mac OS users:

brew tap raffis/gitops-zombies
brew install --cask gitops-zombies

For windows download the .exe from the latest stable release.

How to use

gitops-zombies

A more advanced call might include a filter like the following to exclude certain resources which are considered dynamic (besides the builtin exclusions):

gitops-zombies --context staging -l app.kubernetes.io/managed-by!=kops,app.kubernetes.io/name!=velero,io.cilium.k8s.policy.cluster!=default

Also you might want to exclude some specific resources based on their names. It can be achieved through a YAML configuration:

gitops-zombies --config=myconfig.yaml

myconfig.yaml:

---
apiVersion: gitopszombies/v1
kind: Config
excludeResources:
name: default
  apiVersion: v1
  kind: ServiceAccount
name: velero-capi-backup-.*
  namespace: velero
  apiVersion: velero.io/v1
  kind: Backup
  cluster: management

CLI reference

Finds all kubernetes resources from all installed apis on a kubernetes cluste and evaluates whether they are managed by a flux kustomization or a helmrelease.
Usage:
  gitops-zombies [flags]
Flags:
      --add_dir_header                      If true, adds the file directory to the header of the log messages
      --alsologtostderr                     log to standard error as well as files (no effect when -logtostderr=true)
      --alsologtostderrthreshold severity   logs at or above this threshold go to stderr when -alsologtostderr=true (no effect when -logtostderr=true)
      --as string                           Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.
      --as-group stringArray                Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
      --as-uid string                       UID to impersonate for the operation.
      --cache-dir string                    Default cache directory (default "/.kube/cache")
      --certificate-authority string        Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
      --client-certificate string           Path to a client certificate file for TLS
      --client-key string                   Path to a client key file for TLS
      --cluster string                      The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
      --config string                       Config file (default "~/.gitops-zombies.yaml")
      --context string                      The name of the kubeconfig context to use
      --disable-compression                 If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
      --exclude-cluster strings             Exclude cluster from zombie detection (default none)
      --fail                                Exit with an exit code > 0 if zombies are detected
  -h, --help                                help for gitops-zombies
  -a, --include-all                         Includes resources which are considered dynamic resources
      --insecure-skip-tls-verify            If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
      --kubeconfig string                   Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
      --legacy_stderr_threshold_behavior    If true, stderrthreshold is ignored when logtostderr=true (legacy behavior). If false, stderrthreshold is honored even when logtostderr=true (default true)
      --log_backtrace_at traceLocation      when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace (default :0)
      --log_dir string                      If non-empty, write log files in this directory (no effect when -logtostderr=true)
      --log_file string                     If non-empty, use this log file (no effect when -logtostderr=true)
      --log_file_max_size uint              Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to (no effect when -logtostderr=true). Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited. (default 1800)
      --logtostderr                         log to standard error instead of files (default true)
  -n, --namespace string                    If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
      --no-stream                           Display discovered resources at the end instead of live
      --one_output                          If true, only write logs to their native severity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level; no effect when -logtostderr=true)
  -o, --output string                       Output format. One of: (json, yaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file, custom-columns, custom-columns-file, wide). See custom columns [https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/overview/#custom-columns], golang template [http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview] and jsonpath template [https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/jsonpath/].
      --request-timeout string              The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests. (default "0")
  -l, --selector string                     Label selector (Is used for all apis)
  -s, --server string                       The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
      --skip_headers                        If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
      --skip_log_headers                    If true, avoid headers when opening log files (no effect when -logtostderr=true)
      --stderrthreshold severity            logs at or above this threshold go to stderr when writing to files and stderr (no effect when -logtostderr=true or -alsologtostderr=true unless -legacy_stderr_threshold_behavior=false) (default 2)
      --tls-server-name string              Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
      --token string                        Bearer token for authentication to the API server
      --user string                         The name of the kubeconfig user to use
  -v, --v Level                             number for the log level verbosity
      --version                             Print version and exit
      --vmodule moduleSpec                  comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging