the visualizer expects some specific tags to be on the pods / services for them to be displayed. It was built for a demo and I don't think it was generalized to work on arbitrary deployments

As Robert Bailey pointed out, the versions of brendendburns and saturnism are not generealized scripts, but require little modifications on your resource labels (such as labeling things with "name" or "uses").

Maybe this version can help you: https://github.com/0ortmann/k8s-visualizer It features minimalistic configuration options. You can configure labels you want the script to use. You do not need to change your actual setup. Please contact me if you run into issues.

In order to use this UI, go to the saturnism/gcp-live-k8s-visualizer GitHub repo and follow the steps, there.

The code for that UI is from https://github.com/brendandburns/gcp-live-k8s-visualizer.