About

kibbe is a cli tool to ease common tasks when developing plugins for kibana.

Features

• Run elasticsearch for kibana with persistent configuration across clones
• Run kibana with persistent configuration across clones
• Run fast checks for your code before committing
• Discover tools and helpers you might not know
• More coming: open an issue with your suggestions

Use --help when running kibbe to know more about its features

Installing

There are 3 ways to install kibbe:

• via PIP (recommended) pip install kibbe --upgrade
• Downloading the binary
• Building it

Via PIP

The easiest way to install and keep kibbe up to date is by using pip.

• Make sure you have python3 installed
• Install pip (you probably don't have to)

Install kibbe:

pip3 install kibbe

To upgrade

pip install kibbe --upgrade

Note: It might be possible you need to run pip with sudo in mac.

Download the binary

• Download the latest release from this repository.
• Give it running permissions chmod +x kibbe
• Add it to your path (e.g. cp kibbe .local/bin)

MacOS users dowloading the release see this

Building it yourself

You can build kibbe yourself, follow the instructions in the contributing guide.

Usage

Always run kibbe in the root of your kibana clone.

Run kibbe --help to see a list of commands.

you can run --help on any subcommand to get more information about arguments, options and what subcommands do.

e.g.:

kibbe check --help

Configuration file

Create a configuration file in your home ~/.kibbe

Some kibbe subcommands can use persistent parameters from a configuration file.

The configuration file is read from ~/.kibbe and it should follow the format in the configuration file example

Contributing

Follow the contributing guide