A kubectl plugin to explore ownership relationships between Kubernetes objects through ownersReferences on the objects.

The kubectl lineage plugin is very similar to kubectl tree, but it understands logical relationships between some API objects without needing ownerReferences.

Use krew plugin manager to install:

kubectl krew install tree kubectl tree --help 

Example (Deployment):

Example (Knative Service):

Example (Agones Fleet):

By default, the plugin will only search "namespaced" objects in the same namespace as the specified object.

You can use the -A or --all-namespaces flag to search namespaced and non-namespaced objects in all namespaces.

Ahmet Alp Balkan @ahmetb.

Special acknowledgement: This tool is heavily inspired by @nimakaviani's knative-inspect as it's a generalized version of it.

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.

This is not an official Google project.