kubetail VS stern

Compare kubetail vs stern and see what are their differences.

kubetail

Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time (by johanhaleby)

stern

⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern (by stern)
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kubetail stern
8 16
3,211 2,701
- 5.6%
5.5 5.9
about 1 month ago 9 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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kubetail

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubetail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.

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 2024-03-09.
  • ☸️ Kubernetes: From your docker-compose file to a cluster with Kompose
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2024
    deploy: stage: deploy image: alpine/k8s:1.29.1 variables: NAMESPACE: $CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG before_script: # init namespace - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl create namespace $NAMESPACE || true # download tools - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern && stern --version - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.32.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/kompose && chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/kompose && kompose version # show logs asynchronously. Timeout to avoid hanging indefinitely when an error occurs in script section - timeout 1200 stern -n $NAMESPACE "app-" --tail=0 --color=always & # in background, tail new logs if any (current and incoming) pod with this regex as name - timeout 1200 kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get events --watch-only & # in background, tail new events in background script: # first delete CrashLoopBackOff pods, polluting logs - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE delete pod `kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get pods --selector app.kubernetes.io/component=$MODULE | awk '$3 == "CrashLoopBackOff" {print $1}'` || true # now deploying - kompose convert --out k8s/ - kubectl apply -n $NAMESPACE -f k8s/ - echo -e "\e[93;1mWaiting for the new app version to be fully operational...\e[0m" # waiting for successful deployment - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-db - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-back - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-front # on any error before this line, the script will still wait for these threads to complete, so the initial timeout is important. Adding these commands to after_script does not help - pkill stern || true - pkill kubectl || true after_script: # show namespace content - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get deploy,service,ingress,pod
  • stern VS stern - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 11 Dec 2023
    The old repo is dead
  • 🦊 GitLab CI: 10+ Best Practices to Avoid Widespread Anti-patterns
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Sep 2023
    node-and-git: image: node:18.10-alpine before_script: - apk --no-cache add git kubectl-and-stern: image: alpine/k8s:1.22.13 before_script: # install stern - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern playwright-and-kubectl: image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.35.1-focal before_script: # install kubectl - curl --show-error --silent --location --remote-name https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.25.3/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x ./kubectl && mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/
  • K9s: A lazier way to manage Kubernetes Clusters
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2023
    I'll add stern (https://github.com/stern/stern) to that - follow logs from multiple pods easily.
  • What k8s related tool you wish you knew earlier?
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 8 Jun 2023
    Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes https://github.com/stern/stern
  • What's your "IDE" of choice nowadays?
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 1 Jun 2023
  • How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
    13 projects | dev.to | 3 Feb 2023
    stern v1.22.0
  • Getting started with kubectl plugins
    20 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2023
    Link to GitHub Repository
  • Julia Evans: Tips for Analyzing Logs
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2022
    If you are using Kubernetes, I highly recommend using https://github.com/stern/stern
  • What daily terminal based tools are you using for cluster management?
    19 projects | /r/kubernetes | 5 Dec 2022
    Stern: https://github.com/stern/stern for log streaming

What are some alternatives?

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