Kubernetes Python Client

Asynchronous (AsyncIO) client library for the Kubernetes API.

This library is created in the same way as official https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python but uses asynchronous version of OpenAPI generator. My motivation is described here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/pull/324

Installation

From PyPi directly:

pip install kubernetes_asyncio

It requires Python 3.10+

Example

To list all pods:

import asyncio
from kubernetes_asyncio import client, config
from kubernetes_asyncio.client.api_client import ApiClient


async def main():
    # Configs can be set in Configuration class directly or using helper
    # utility. If no argument provided, the config will be loaded from
    # default location.
    await config.load_kube_config()

    # use the context manager to close http sessions automatically
    async with ApiClient() as api:

        v1 = client.CoreV1Api(api)
        print("Listing pods with their IPs:")
        ret = await v1.list_pod_for_all_namespaces()

        for i in ret.items:
            print(i.status.pod_ip, i.metadata.namespace, i.metadata.name)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())

More complicated examples, like asynchronous multiple watch or tail logs from pods, you can find in examples/ folder.

Documentation

https://kubernetes-asyncio.readthedocs.io/

Compatibility

This library is generated in the same way as the official Kubernetes Python Library. It uses swagger-codegen and the same concepts like streaming, watching or reading configuration. Because of an early stage of this library some differences still exist:

	synchronous library kubernetes-client/python	this library
authentication method	gcp-token, azure-token, user-token, oidc-token, user-password, in-cluster	gcp-token (only via gcloud command), user-token, oidc-token, user-password, in-cluster
streaming data via websocket from PODs	bidirectional	read-only is already implemented

Microsoft Windows

In case this library is used against Kubernetes cluster using client-go credentials plugin, the default asyncio event loop is SelectorEventLoop. This event loop selector, however, does NOT support pipes and subprocesses, so exec_provider.py::ExecProvider is failing. In order to avoid failures the ProactorEventLoop has to be selected. The ProactorEventLoop can be enabled via WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy.

Application's code needs to contain following code:

import asyncio

asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(
    asyncio.WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy()
)

Versions

This library is versioned in the same way as the synchronous library. The schema version has been changed with version v18.20.0. Now, first two numbers from version are Kubernetes version (v.1.18.20). The last number is for changes in the library not directly connected with K8s.

Development

# Create and activate virtual environment
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run ruff
ruff check .
ruff format --diff .

# Run tests
pytest