InfraCanvas – See your VMs, Docker and Kubernetes on one live canvas

Hi HN, I built InfraCanvas because I was tired of SSH-ing into a dozen boxes and running docker/kubectl on each just to figure out what was actually running and what was broken.

It runs a small agent on each machine that discovers hosts, Docker containers, Kubernetes workloads and LXC, then draws the whole fleet as one topology you can click into. From a node you can read logs, exec a shell, scale a deployment, restart a container — the stuff you'd normally jump between terminals for.

Stack: Go agent + backend, Next.js frontend, WebSocket relay for live updates. Discovery is read-only by default; actions are gated behind roles (viewer/operator/admin).

It's not a Kubernetes-only dashboard like Lens/K9s/kubewall — the point is the layer below K8s too (the VMs, the Docker daemons, the host processes) in the same view.