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Mizu — Kubernetes Traffic Viewer
Introduction
Mizu (water in Japanese) is a relatively new tool that is making some waves in the Kubernetes universe. It was open sourced by UP9 and it claims the following:
Think of TCPDump and Wireshark reinvented for Kubernetes with multi-protocol and TLS support.
Which is a very bold claim!
Lets deep dive a little into the tool and see if it stacks up to all it promises.
Mizu — the new wireshark?
CLI
Let’s start by fetching the tool.
The CLI is completely standalone, easily downloadable and is compiled for all major OS & arquitectures (Linux, Windows, Apple Intel & Apple M1).
For Linux its a simple as:
curl -Lo mizu github.com/up9inc/mizu/releases/latest/download/mizu_linux_amd64 && chmod 755 mizu
For others enviornments please check https://getmizu.io/docs/installing-mizu/downloading-mizu-cli