CloudMaps™ is a live map of your Kubernetes cluster. Instead of forcing you to reconstruct relationships from trees, tables, and YAML, it turns namespaces, workloads, services, pods, storage, policies, routes, and dependencies into an explorable spatial model.
It is built for scale, including clusters with 5,000+ workloads, so teams can zoom from the whole environment into a namespace, workload, pod, route, or dependency without losing where they are.
CloudMaps is available during the active 15-day Professional trial and with Professional or Professional Airtight licenses. It is not included in Basic after the trial.
CloudMaps turns Kubernetes relationships into a map you can read at a glance:
CloudMaps is designed around continuous exploration:
The goal is to keep your mental model intact. You should not have to jump from one disconnected screen to another just to understand why a workload behaves the way it does.
Traditional tree views and resource tables become harder to reason about as clusters grow. CloudMaps is designed for clusters with thousands of workloads by aggregating detail at the right level instead of throwing information away.
At a high zoom level, you see regions, namespaces, resource counts, and health signals. As you zoom in, more detail appears: workloads, pods, services, ports, routes, storage, and live relationships.
CloudMaps helps answer questions that are painful in flat tools:
That makes CloudMaps useful for troubleshooting, architecture review, onboarding, and security discussions.
CloudMaps is not a separate dashboard. It sits inside the same desktop workspace as:
Because K8Studio connects through your existing kubeconfig, CloudMaps works without installing agents, sidecars, operators, or collectors in your cluster.
For more context, read why we built Google Maps for Kubernetes, compare the best Kubernetes cluster visualization tools for 2026, review maintained Weave Scope alternatives, or inspect per-object topology alongside the cluster-wide map.
CloudMaps is currently in beta and continues to evolve based on real cluster feedback.
CloudMaps is included during the active 15-day Professional trial and in the Professional and Professional Airtight plans. It is not included in Basic after the trial.
Direct answers about cluster visualization, scale, relationships, local data, and air-gapped operation.
CloudMaps™ provides a live, zoomable Kubernetes cluster visualization that preserves context from the namespace level down to workloads and pods. The best approach depends on the task: use a live map for operations and troubleshooting, a generated diagram for documentation, and a service-mesh graph for mesh traffic analysis.
CloudMaps™ is K8Studio's live Kubernetes cluster visualization — Google Maps for Kubernetes. It renders namespaces as islands, groups them into purpose-based regions, and shows workloads, pods, services, routes, storage, and dependencies as an explorable spatial map.
CloudMaps is available during the active 15-day Professional trial and with Professional or Professional Airtight licenses. It is not included in the Basic plan after the trial.
No. CloudMaps connects through your kubeconfig like kubectl. No DaemonSets, sidecars, operators, or collectors are installed in the cluster, and no cluster data leaves your machine.
CloudMaps is built for clusters with 5,000+ workloads. It aggregates detail by zoom level — regions and namespaces at high zoom, workloads, pods, ports, and routes as you zoom in — instead of hiding information.
CloudMaps shows workload-to-pod ownership, Service and Gateway API routing, Ingress paths, PVC storage dependencies, network policies, and object dependencies. This makes it easier to trace traffic and assess blast radius before a change.
A Kubernetes topology map is a visual model of cluster resources and their relationships. Instead of listing objects separately, it shows where namespaces, workloads, pods, services, ingresses, routes, policies, and storage fit together.
Yes. If your workstation can reach the Kubernetes API server, CloudMaps works offline. Professional Airtight is the tier built for air-gapped and regulated networks.
No. The Weave Scope project states that it is no longer maintained, and its latest GitHub release was published in 2021. Existing installations may still run, but teams should evaluate a maintained replacement before relying on it for current clusters.
There is no single official replacement. CloudMaps is an agent-free option for a live, zoomable cluster map; KubeView provides a lightweight resource relationship graph; KubeDiagrams generates architecture diagrams; and Kiali focuses on service-mesh traffic.