k9s VS aptakube

Compare k9s vs aptakube and see what are their differences.

k9s

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! (by derailed)

aptakube

Modern, lightweight and multi-cluster Kubernetes GUI. Available on Windows, macOS and Linux. (by aptakube)
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k9s aptakube
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24,488 289
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9.4 1.0
3 days ago about 1 month ago
Go
Apache License 2.0 -
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k9s

Posts with mentions or reviews of k9s. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

aptakube

Posts with mentions or reviews of aptakube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.
  • Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
    Are you specifically looking for a free Kubernetes GUI?

    If you’re open to commercial options, have a look at what Aptakube (https://aptakube.com) can do.

    One feature that sets it apart from other UIs is connecting to multiple clusters simultaneously and seeing all resources in a single table.

    Disclaimer: I’m the author

  • Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    During my previous job, when we were migrating to Kubernetes I couldn’t really find a GUI app that I liked, and most importantly, that could connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. We had 6 clusters and having to switch context constantly was annoying

    I ended up building one [1] to use myself, shared with a few people and they loved it. I asked if they’d pay for it and to my surprise, a lot of people said yes. I’ve put up a website and a “pre-order” button with a regressive monthly discount. Sales were going up month after month, and a few months later I decided to quit my job to go all in on it.

    Today, I’m averaging on ~€5k/mo from this app, but I’m still doing some part time freelancing, as well as building other products that are not as successful, but are making >€1000/mo

    The latest one is open source, privacy friendly analytics for apps [2] that I’m still very actively working on. This is my current “side project” as the previous side project became my main job :)

    There’s also an open source upvote site [3] that I haven’t had much time to work on lately, but still generating $$ monthly.

    [1] https://aptakube.com

  • 🔥 Why I chose Tauri instead of Electron 🔥
    9 projects | dev.to | 31 Jul 2023
    In case you're into Kubernetes, check out Aptakube, a Kubernetes Desktop Client built with Tauri 😊
  • Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2023
    I have two projects, combined doing ~€1500/mo

    https://fider.io - an open source alternative to UserVoice. I started this one 6 years ago to learn Go and React. I’ve seen thousands of instances out there being self hosted, so I started a cloud hosting to those who don’t want to manage it themselves.

    https://aptakube.com - Desktop Client for Kubernetes. This is very recent, launch was 2 weeks ago, so it’s only starting to get some traction now.

    I’m leaving my job to go full time indie hacker now, wish me luck!

  • Is there any alternative to Lens desktop software?
    9 projects | /r/kubernetes | 20 Jan 2023
  • Moving from openlens to k9s after the 6.3.0 downgrade
    3 projects | /r/devops | 14 Jan 2023
    I'm giving a shot on https://aptakube.com. not OSS, but so far has been a great alternative to lens and k9s. The guy behind it made a thread here a while ago.
  • I quit my job to build a Kubernetes GUI, now looking for feedback!
    9 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Jan 2023
    Thanks again for sharing your feedback! In case you have more, you can drop them here or add them to https://github.com/aptakube/aptakube
    9 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Jan 2023
    That’s definitely something I want to add, and it seems to be the most upvoted feature https://github.com/aptakube/aptakube/issues/23
    9 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Jan 2023
    There’s a known bug if a context has a @ or another special char, I’ll release a fix for that today/tomorrow. More info and a workaround available on https://github.com/aptakube/aptakube/issues/42
    9 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Jan 2023
    This is very interesting. We actually don't wait all for all the clusters to respond. It'll send a request to each cluster in parallel and show the results as soon as there is a response. If you hover over the green icon (sometimes a warning) at the top it will show you the status of each cluster (Loading, Succeeded, Error+Reason). If you happen to see these timeouts again, please file an issue on https://github.com/aptakube/aptakube so I can investigate it further.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing k9s and aptakube you can also consider the following projects:

lens - Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

k8s - How to deploy Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment.

minikube - Run Kubernetes locally

popeye - 👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

stern - ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes

kubebox - ⎈❏ Terminal and Web console for Kubernetes

k3d - Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker

zsh-kubectl-prompt - Display information about the kubectl current context and namespace in zsh prompt.

octant - Highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters.

Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes