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Keeping a working day's kubectl port-forwards alive
A supervised kubectl port-forward manager.
Runs many kubectl port-forwards from one profile file, with supervision, auto-reconnect, per-forward logs and an at-a-glance status view. A forward that drops because a pod rolled, a node drained or a laptop slept is restarted automatically instead of failing silently until something downstream times out. One bash script; the alternative is five terminal tabs, four of which are lying to you.
What is in it
- The problem — what goes unanswered without it, and who notices first.
- Why the obvious alternative falls short — stated plainly, including where it is the better choice.
- How it works — the method, not a feature list.
- Concrete use cases — with console output quoted from the repository, never reconstructed.
- The methodology behind any number it emits — every term shown, so the figure survives a question.
- What it deliberately does not do — the section most papers leave out.
Part of the Platform & SRE theme.
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