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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2019 Ciena Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This script sets up a watch with information that is valuable when
+# developing voltha with k8s
+
+watch '$HOME/kind-voltha/bin/kubectl get --all-namespaces pods,svc && echo "" \
+    &&  kubectl  describe --all-namespaces  pods | grep Image: | grep voltha | sed -e "s/^ *//g" -e "s/: */: /g"  && echo "" \
+    && echo "DB SIZE: $(./scripts/etcd-db-size.sh)" && echo "" \
+    && echo "RSS SIZE: $(ps -eo rss,pid,cmd | grep /usr/local/bin/etcd | grep -v grep | cut -d\  -f1 | numfmt --to=iec)"'