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🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! (by derailed)
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Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker (by k3d-io)
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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 2024-04-03.
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Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
Pierre: The first tool I recommend is K9s. It's not just a time-saver but a productivity booster. With its intuitive interface, you can speed up all the usual kubectl commands, access logs, edit resources and configurations, and more. It's like having a personal assistant for your cluster management tasks.
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Easy Access to Terminal Commands in Neovim using FTerm
The last thing you really need is a common set of tools that you want fingertip access to. I really commonly use LazyGit and K9s in my day job so those are the tools I will show off in this article.
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🎀 Five tools to make your K8s experience more enjoyable 🎀
K9s is your best friend (get it? 🐶) when exploring your cluster via the terminal. It shares commonality with Vim for its interaction style using shortcuts and starting commands with: but don’t let that discourage you. K9s keeps a vigilant eye on Kubernetes activities, providing real-time information and intuitive commands for resource interaction.
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Building a Kubernetes Operator with the Operator Framework
k9s: brew install k9s
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Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
I would like to put in a vote for k9s, which is also on the list at Terminal Trove. [0] It's the most convenient tool I've ever found for Kubernetes management. Based on that experience I'll definitely be checking out Harlequin.
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Your First K8S+Istio
$ wget https://github.com/derailed/k9s/releases/download/v0.29.1/k9s_Darwin_amd64.tar.gz $ tar -xzf k9s_Darwin_amd64.tar.gz $ sudo mv k9s /usr/local/bin/
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Seeking Guidance for Transitioning to Kubernetes and SRE/DevOps for traditional infrastructure team
All in all, run things, do some kubectl apply -f something.yml every day, install k9s, and try to configure a big one cluster at some point.
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Architecting for Resilience: Crafting Opinionated EKS Clusters with Karpenter & Cilium Cluster Mesh — Part 1
(K9s is one of my favorite tools for navigating Kubernetes clusters through the CLI).
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Top 10 CLI Tools for DevOps Teams
K9s is an open-source, terminal-based UI for interacting with your Kubernetes clusters, making navigating, observing, and managing your apps easier. If you use Kubectl but wish it was easier and faster to use, K9s might be just what you're looking for!
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Use Tetragon to Limit Network Usage for a set of Binary
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k3d
Posts with mentions or reviews of k3d.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.
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15 Options To Build A Kubernetes Playground (with Pros and Cons)
K3D: is a lightweight distribution of Kubernetes designed for resource-constrained environments. It is an excellent option for running Kubernetes on virtual machines or cloud servers.
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Why You Should Use k3d for Local Development. A Developer's Guide
k3d is a lightweight wrapper that makes running Kubernetes (specifically, the lightweight k3s distribution) in Docker straightforward and efficient. It's designed to provide developers with a quick and easy way to test Kubernetes without the overhead of setting up a full cluster.
- Turning my laptop into a one-node k8s-cluster?
- Single node K8S distribution for little production
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Distributing containers to run locally?
If you customer prefers to run the standard docker engine you could use k3d
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Unable to launch older version (v2.6.8) of Rancher
You don’t need to run Rancher from a Kubernetes cluster, the rancher/rancher image works fine with Docker (it uses k3d, aka « k3s in docker » : https://k3d.io/).
- Blog: KWOK: Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet
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Building a RESTful API With Functions
K3d and Skaffold for local development
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Local Kubernetes Playground Made Easy
If you are a developer and want to learn how to deploy applications to a cluster, getting a cluster up an running can be a daunting task in it's own rights. There are many ways to do it: spinning up local virtual machines and configuring from scratch or using tools like minikube, etc. You may not care for the pain of setting up and configuring a cluster, and if that is you, then the quickest way that I have found is using k3d.
- Despliega un clúster de Kubernetes en segundos con k3sup
What are some alternatives?
When comparing k9s and k3d you can also consider the following projects:
lens - Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes
kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes
k8s - How to deploy Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment.
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
k0s - k0s - The Zero Friction Kubernetes
popeye - 👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer
k3sup - bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
stern - ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes
microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.