k9s
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! (by derailed)
kubectx
Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl (by ahmetb)
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| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
[0] https://k9scli.io/
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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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kubectx
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubectx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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Building a Kubernetes Operator with the Operator Framework
kubectx: brew install kubectx
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Jenkins Agents On Kubernetes
default is where any actions which require a namespace will go into if one is not explicitly defined in a default setup (tools such as kubens can alter this behavior). In the context of Jenkins, namespaces are a useful way to allow isolation of individual Jenkins instances that want to utilize the same Kubernetes cluster. Creation of a namespace is a simple option to kubectl:
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Tool to manage kubeconfig configurations
Here you go: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx and https://kubecm.cloud/
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Setting kubectl context via env var
check out kubectx/kubens https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx very handy tool to permanently switch context/namespace
- Minikube broke my Kubectl config
- Managing local cluster config
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
kubectx + kubens v0.9.4
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[ANN] Kele: Snappy Kubernetes cluster management in Emacs
For a peek at what's currently possible, visit the documentation site, in particular the Usage section. For this initial release, it has feature parity with kubectx and kubens and that's about it, but there's lots of room for growth.
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Injecting secrets from Vault into Helm charts with ArgoCD
I also encourage you to install kubectx + kubens to navigate Kubernetes easily.
- What daily terminal based tools are you using for cluster management?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing k9s and kubectx you can also consider the following projects:
lens - Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes
fzf-tab - Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
k8s - How to deploy Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment.
kubie - A more powerful alternative to kubectx and kubens
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
kubeswitch - The kubectx for operators.
popeye - 👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer
kubecm - Manage your kubeconfig more easily.
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
kubectl-neat - Clean up Kubernetes yaml and json output to make it readable
stern - ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes
kubectl-trace - Schedule bpftrace programs on your kubernetes cluster using the kubectl