krew VS stern

Compare krew vs stern and see what are their differences.

krew

📦 Find and install kubectl plugins (by kubernetes-sigs)

stern

⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes (by wercker)
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krew stern
23 10
6,118 6,326
1.4% -
4.7 0.0
11 days ago over 2 years ago
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krew

Posts with mentions or reviews of krew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
  • Giving Kyma a little spin ... a SpinKube
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    Authenticating with Kyma is a (in my opinion) unnecessary challenge as it leverages the OIDC-login plugin for kubectl. You find a description of the setup here. This works fine when on a Mac but can give you some headaches on a Windows and on Linux machine especially when combined with restrictive setups in corporate environments. For Windows I can only recommend installing krew via chocolatey and then install the OIDC plugin via kubectl krew install oidc-login. At least for me that was the only way to get this working on Windows.
  • Kubernetes Üzerinde Hyperledger Fabric Ağının Kurulumu
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Jan 2024
    ( set -x; cd "$(mktemp -d)" && OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" && ARCH="$(uname -m | sed -e 's/x86_64/amd64/' -e 's/\(arm\)\(64\)\?.*/\1\2/' -e 's/aarch64$/arm64/')" && KREW="krew-${OS}_${ARCH}" && curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/krew/releases/download/v0.4.4/krew-linux_amd64.tar.gz" && tar zxvf "${KREW}.tar.gz" && ./"${KREW}" install krew )
  • Krew: Package Manager for Kubectl Plugins
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2023
  • Kubernetes For The Sysadmin - Enter KubeVirt
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2023
    Krew is a way to manage plugins for Kubernetes. For more info, check out the following link: https://krew.sigs.k8s.io/
  • Lock your Kubernetes contexts!
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 15 Mar 2023
    I plan on getting it added as a krew plugin, so watch this space.
  • Deploying CLIs to developer machines
    3 projects | /r/devops | 9 Mar 2023
  • Getting started with kubectl plugins
    20 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2023
    Krew is a plugin manager maintained by the Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) CLI community. Krew makes it easy to use kubectl plugins and helps you discover, install, and manage them on your machine. It is similar to tools like apt, dnf, or brew. Today, over 200 kubectl plugins are available on Krew - and that number is only increasing. Some projects are actively used and some get deprecated over time, but are still accessible via Krew.
  • Most Useful kubectl Plugins
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Oct 2022
    kubectl plugins can be installed in numerous ways, the easiest way would be to install the official plugin manager called krew.
  • Introduction to Kubectl CLI Plugins ctx and ns
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2022
    ( set -x; cd "$(mktemp -d)" && OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" && ARCH="$(uname -m | sed -e 's/x86_64/amd64/' -e 's/\(arm\)\(64\)\?.*/\1\2/' -e 's/aarch64$/arm64/')" && KREW="krew-${OS}_${ARCH}" && curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/krew/releases/latest/download/${KREW}.tar.gz" && tar zxvf "${KREW}.tar.gz" && ./"${KREW}" install krew )
  • Introduction to Kubernetes extensibility
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2022
    -- What is Krew?

stern

Posts with mentions or reviews of stern. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing krew and stern you can also consider the following projects:

helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager

kubetail - Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time

k9s - 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

kail - kubernetes log viewer

kubectx - Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

kubectl-neat - Clean up Kubernetes yaml and json output to make it readable

kube-score - Kubernetes object analysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security. kube-score actively prevents downtime and bugs in your Kubernetes YAML and Charts. Static code analysis for Kubernetes.

kubectl-debug - This repository is no longer maintained, please checkout https://github.com/JamesTGrant/kubectl-debug.

free4chat - free4.chat is a real-time audio chat service. It is designed by the local first and privacy first principle, and is very easy to use.

terraform-docs - Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats

stern - ⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern