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Podinfo: Fast Kubernetes Setup

Founders get a Go microservice template for Kubernetes, ideal for startups and devs, with 5.9k+ GitHub stars

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intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free
6,024 stars+4★ this week1,903 forksGoGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Jun 30Updated 10/19/2026100% free · open source
What it is

Create a Go microservice template for your Kubernetes project in minutes.

Real use case example

"A solo developer wants to create a simple web form to collect user data. They set up the podinfo template in Kubernetes and customize it to save user data to Google Sheets and send a confirmation email via Mailgun. Within 30 minutes, they have a working automation without writing any code from scratch and can focus on deploying it to production."

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When to use it
  • •When building a scalable microservices-based application
  • •When deploying applications on a Kubernetes cluster
  • •When needing a pre-configured Go template for rapid development
Ready-to-paste prompt
curl http://podinfo:9898/healthz to test the podinfo health endpoint
Heads up: Ensure a local Kubernetes cluster is running and accessible via 'kubectl' before attempting to deploy podinfo
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mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/podinfo && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/podinfo/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/podinfo/SKILL.md
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How Podinfo: Fast Kubernetes Setup works
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Podinfo: Fast Kubernetes Setup is a medium Go project (~7.2k lines across 104 code files, plus 1 test files). Setup is light: runs with Docker. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size
Medium codebase
~7.2k lines · 104 code files · ~1 h to skim
Setup
Light setup
Runs with Docker.
Runs on
Go · Docker
No API keys detected
Go 76%CUE 16%Shell 3%HTML 2%Makefile 2%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    cmd/podcli/main.go
    Where the program starts running
  3. 3
    go.mod
    Dependencies and the commands it exposes
  4. 4
    pkg/api/http/index.go
    Inside pkg/ — the main logic begins here
What's in each folder
pkg/Core code — the actual logic96 files
cmd/Command-line entry points5 files
ui/Frontend / UI1 files
timoni/Folder139 files
deploy/Deployment / infrastructure61 files
charts/Folder29 files
otel/Folder5 files
kustomize/Folder4 files
READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month
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Creator
stefanprodan
Language
Go
Category
devtools
Published
1/5/2018

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