k3s VS k9s

K3s

k3s or kind for local Kubernetes

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s.git

K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Kubernetes with K3s

A lightweight k3s Kubernetes cluster using k3d

Setting up the Kubernetes cluster and the AWS SQS queue is outside the scope of this article, but you can deploy an Amazon EKS cluster by following this guide, or use k3s as a lightweight, local alternative. For setting up an SQS queue, refer to this tutorial.

Start with small-scale experiments using k3s/k3d

This will initialize K3S (a lightweight Kubernetes distribution), and will configure the Kairos SpinKube bundle we will install in a moment.

I mean, it's nice to have a GUI when running multiple containers on Docker, or Kubernetes, but I've never used Docker Desktop on my work Mac either.

For Kubernetes, something like K9s [1] or Headlamp [2] works fine. I remember seeing something similar for Docker but I can't remember the name.

[1] https://k9scli.io/

k9s

wget https://github.com/derailed/k9s/releases/download/v0.50.6/k9s_linux_amd64.deb

This article explores three beginner-friendly approaches — Claude Desktop, Cursor, and K9S with HolmesGPT — each designed to simplify Kubernetes management for newcomers.

💚K9s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - K9s provides a terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters.

I would have said k9s (free) and k9s alpha (pay for additional features), but it looks like the k9s alpha site is not up/working at the moment. k9s itself still gets regular updates, but I’m not sure what the status of k9s alpha is anymore. I had assumed it was still available, but I never tracked it too closely.

https://github.com/derailed/k9s

https://k9scli.io/

I have chosen Standard_NC4as_T4_v3 VM for for GPU node and kept the count as 2, so total we will have 32GB of VRAM(16+16). Lets now add the kubernetes config to our system: az aks get-credentials --resource-group rayBlog --name rayBlogCluster. We can now use k9s(want to explore k9s?) to view our nodes and check if everything is configured correctly.

5. K9s - Terminal Lovers' Dream

While design is an important part to some degree, there is something more that I've become observing and, therefore, liking lately: the reasonable default configs of the apps, which mean that the majority of the users will never need to mess with configs at all. Here is a great post by Arne about this trend which lists such tools like Fish (mentioned above), Helix, Lazygit, Zellij, k9s, etc. And that a very user-friendly approach: install and use right away! I believe that Ghostty would be a good addition to the list. For example: