kubectx VS kubectl-debug

Compare kubectx vs kubectl-debug and see what are their differences.

kubectx

Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl (by ahmetb)

kubectl-debug

This repository is no longer maintained, please checkout https://github.com/JamesTGrant/kubectl-debug.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

kubectl-debug

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubectl-debug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.
  • What are some useful Kubernetes tools you can share?
    15 projects | /r/kubernetes | 10 Sep 2022
    I’ve used kubectl-debug quite a bit ( https://github.com/aylei/kubectl-debug ), although there might be better ways of doing it nowadays.
  • Top 200 Kubernetes Tools for DevOps Engineer Like You
    84 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2022
    Kubectl-debug - Allows you to run a new container with all the troubleshooting tools installed in running pod for debugging purpose PowerfulSeal - A powerful testing tool for Kubernetes clusters Crash-diagnostic - Crash-Diagnostics is a tool to help investigate, analyze, and troubleshoot unresponsive or crashed Kubernetes clusters K9s - Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! Kubernetes CLI Plugin - Doctor - kubectl cluster triage plugin for k8s - 🏥 (brew doctor equivalent) Knative Inspect - A light-weight debugging tool for Knative's system components Kubeman - To find information from Kubernetes clusters, and to investigate issues related to Kubernetes and Istio kpexec - kpexec is a kubernetes cli that runs commands in a container with high privileges
  • Top 20 useful k8s tools
    13 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2021
    Link : https://github.com/aylei/kubectl-debug

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kubectx and kubectl-debug you can also consider the following projects:

fzf-tab - Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!

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

kubie - A more powerful alternative to kubectx and kubens

krew - 📦 Find and install kubectl plugins

kubeswitch - The kubectx for operators.

ktunnel - A cli that exposes your local resources to kubernetes

kubecm - Manage your kubeconfig more easily.

kubectl-trace - Schedule bpftrace programs on your kubernetes cluster using the kubectl

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

kubesess - Kubectl plugin managing sessions

popeye - 👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer