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K8sGPT: AI-Powered Kubernetes Diagnostics

by Shriira Press

K8sGPT is a CNCF project that gives Kubernetes troubleshooting superpowers to everyone. It scans a cluster with built-in analyzers that encode the knowledge an experienced SRE brings to a crashing pod, a broken service, or a misconfigured ingress, then hands each finding to an AI backend that explains the problem and suggests a fix in clear language. This book starts with the everyday pain of debugging Kubernetes, then works through the analyzers that find problems, the many AI backends that explain them, and the anonymization that keeps cluster data private. It covers the command-line tool, the in-cluster operator and its K8sGPT custom resource, integrations and caching, and how teams put K8sGPT to work in practice.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What K8sGPT Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — Analyzers: Codified SRE Knowledge
4. 4Chapter 3 — AI Backends
5. 5Chapter 4 — Anonymization and Trust
6. 6Chapter 5 — The Command-Line Tool
7. 7Chapter 6 — The Operator and the K8sGPT CRD
8. 8Chapter 7 — Integrations, Caching, and Extensibility
9. 9Chapter 8 — K8sGPT in Practice