SimKube

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Why SimKube?

Stop Guessing at your Scale–Simulate it!

Use SimKube to explore and optimize your Kubernetes clusters in a risk-free environment. SimKube is built to help you understand and solve real-world Kubernetes challenges before they hit production.

Follow these three simple steps to get started:

  1. Record traces of events that happen in your production cluster
  2. Use SimKube to create a simulation environment that exactly mimics your production cluster
  3. Replay the event trace in your simulated cluster; make changes to see how the cluster responds!

What’s New in SimKube?

SimKube xray demo

In this version of SimKube, we’ve released SimKube xray, which allows you to dig into a trace file and see what’s going on in your simulation in an intuitive text-based user-interface. Try it out, or watch the video below (there is no sound) for a quick intro!

2.6.0 - 2026-05-14

🚀 Features

  • Add default podSpecTemplatePaths for known Kubernetes resources
  • skip_owned flag for tracer config to skip tracing owned Kubernetes resources
  • Delete command for SKEL

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Support http-proxy feature in kubeconfig
  • Default exported trace saved to current dir
  • Drop nodeName field for tracked pod objects
  • Set bare pod metadata correctly, and set sim name label correctly
  • Truncate long labels
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