hcavarsan/kftray
kubectl port-forward manager and reverse tunnel (ngrok-like) for exposing local services publicly, with TLS termination, HTTP traffic inspection, UDP forwarding, multi-hop proxy routing through k8s clusters, stateful config via filesystem or git - GUI and TUI available
Is hcavarsan/kftray beginner-friendly?
The maintainers of hcavarsan/kftray usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 3 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 1.6k
- Forks
- 93
- Open beginner issues
- 3
- Indexed issues
- 71
- Avg merge
- 15h 50m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 115
- Dominant language
- Rust
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Last GitHub push
- Oct 20, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Oct 20, 2026
- Contributing guide
- No contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
How to contribute to hcavarsan/kftray
- There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's GPL-3.0 license.
- Pick one of the 3 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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area:helper kind:bug priority:p3 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
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area:portforward kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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area:portforward kind:feature priority:p3
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100
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area:tui kind:feature priority:p3
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
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mcp list_ports hides a forbidden service behind an empty port listPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 1 day ago. Openarea:tui kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100
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no use port button when the os reserves the local portPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 1 day ago. Openarea:frontend kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100
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mcp list_ports suggests a port that service forwards dont usePossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 1 day ago. Openarea:tui kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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http logs slow forwards to a crawl on grpc, tls and binary streamsPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 2 days ago. Openarea:portforward kind:perf priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100
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exported configs lose valid proxy hosts and domain aliasesPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 2 days ago. Openarea:commons kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
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opening http logs ignores editors with quoted pathsPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 2 days ago. Openarea:tauri kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
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new proxy starts lose their destination addressPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 2 days ago. Openarea:tui kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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http log cuts replies at chunk terminators inside the payloadPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 3 days ago. Openarea:server kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100
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exposed apps lose a listener while the relay stays alivePossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 3 days ago. Openarea:server kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100
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https forwards serve plaintext when certificate setup failsPossibly taken @hcavarsan claimed this 4 days ago. Openarea:portforward kind:bug priority:p2 ready
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day