GROOT: One archive for cluster diagnostics

If you have ever SSH’d into three terminals during an incident, copy-pasting kubectl get , kubectl logs , and kubectl describe while the clock ticks, you already know the problem: manual capture is slow, inconsistent, and easy to get wrong —especially on large clusters. GROOT is a small open-source Go CLI ( Cobra + Viper ) that automates that workflow. You configure namespaces, workloads, and options once; GROOT runs the right kubectl invocations in parallel , writes a predictable directory layo