What daily terminal based tools are you using for cluster management?

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  • lens

    Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

  • The issue he’s complaining about has been fixed: https://github.com/lensapp/lens/issues/1588

  • OpenLens

    OpenLens Binary Build Repository

  • To anyone visiting here, I got a lot of feedback for new tools (which I haven't tried yet), both on Youtube and here, so I compiled it into a list: A comment on Lens: Initially I wanted to include Lens in the video but decided it's a bit different in that it's not a CLI / TUI. Many users shared bad experience with Lens, mainly around performance and a large amount of requests it shoots at the cluster API to a point where some companies banned it. These are the tools (I may add a video review on if anyone thinks it's worth it): * https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl - for an improved kubectl experience * https://github.com/particledecay/kconf - for those with complex kubeconfig changes requirements * https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens - an open version of Lens (note the above before using) * https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor - colored kubectl output :) * https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox - the K9s little brother? * https://github.com/bergerx/kubectl-status - human friendly resource status output

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  • kubectl-status

    A kubectl plugin to print a human-friendly output that focuses on the status fields of the resources in kubernetes.

  • To anyone visiting here, I got a lot of feedback for new tools (which I haven't tried yet), both on Youtube and here, so I compiled it into a list: A comment on Lens: Initially I wanted to include Lens in the video but decided it's a bit different in that it's not a CLI / TUI. Many users shared bad experience with Lens, mainly around performance and a large amount of requests it shoots at the cluster API to a point where some companies banned it. These are the tools (I may add a video review on if anyone thinks it's worth it): * https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl - for an improved kubectl experience * https://github.com/particledecay/kconf - for those with complex kubeconfig changes requirements * https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens - an open version of Lens (note the above before using) * https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor - colored kubectl output :) * https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox - the K9s little brother? * https://github.com/bergerx/kubectl-status - human friendly resource status output

  • stern

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

  • Stern: https://github.com/stern/stern for log streaming

  • jq

    Discontinued Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)

  • Jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ (for quick json extraction)

  • jqp

    A TUI playground to experiment with jq

  • Jqp: https://github.com/noahgorstein/jqp (for more complex jq stuff)

  • k9s

    🐢 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

  • K9s: https://k9scli.io for terminal visualization, mainly when debugging

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  • kubectx

    Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

  • dotfiles

    My dotfiles synced form localhost and remote machines (by omerxx)

  • My dotfiles are at - https://github.com/omerxx/dotfiles Specifically the terminal I'm currently using is Alacritty, but for the video I used iTerm (looks cleaner with transparency for the video). Regardless of terminal I always attach myself my Tmux session (also in the dotfiles). You're probably also wondering about the command line which is set with ohmyzssh + powerlevel (https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k)

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    A Zsh theme

  • My dotfiles are at - https://github.com/omerxx/dotfiles Specifically the terminal I'm currently using is Alacritty, but for the video I used iTerm (looks cleaner with transparency for the video). Regardless of terminal I always attach myself my Tmux session (also in the dotfiles). You're probably also wondering about the command line which is set with ohmyzssh + powerlevel (https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k)

  • kubectl-exec

    kubectl-exec is a shell script getting a shell into your kuberntes nodes.

  • kmux

    Multiplexed usual Kubernetes actions

  • Mostly the vanilla kubectl but also kmux in order to follow logs (like stern) but multi clusters oriented.

  • fubectl

    Reduces repetitive interactions with kubectl

  • To anyone visiting here, I got a lot of feedback for new tools (which I haven't tried yet), both on Youtube and here, so I compiled it into a list: A comment on Lens: Initially I wanted to include Lens in the video but decided it's a bit different in that it's not a CLI / TUI. Many users shared bad experience with Lens, mainly around performance and a large amount of requests it shoots at the cluster API to a point where some companies banned it. These are the tools (I may add a video review on if anyone thinks it's worth it): * https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl - for an improved kubectl experience * https://github.com/particledecay/kconf - for those with complex kubeconfig changes requirements * https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens - an open version of Lens (note the above before using) * https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor - colored kubectl output :) * https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox - the K9s little brother? * https://github.com/bergerx/kubectl-status - human friendly resource status output

  • kconf

    Manage multiple kubeconfigs easily

  • To anyone visiting here, I got a lot of feedback for new tools (which I haven't tried yet), both on Youtube and here, so I compiled it into a list: A comment on Lens: Initially I wanted to include Lens in the video but decided it's a bit different in that it's not a CLI / TUI. Many users shared bad experience with Lens, mainly around performance and a large amount of requests it shoots at the cluster API to a point where some companies banned it. These are the tools (I may add a video review on if anyone thinks it's worth it): * https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl - for an improved kubectl experience * https://github.com/particledecay/kconf - for those with complex kubeconfig changes requirements * https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens - an open version of Lens (note the above before using) * https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor - colored kubectl output :) * https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox - the K9s little brother? * https://github.com/bergerx/kubectl-status - human friendly resource status output

  • kubecolor

    Discontinued colorizes kubectl output

  • To anyone visiting here, I got a lot of feedback for new tools (which I haven't tried yet), both on Youtube and here, so I compiled it into a list: A comment on Lens: Initially I wanted to include Lens in the video but decided it's a bit different in that it's not a CLI / TUI. Many users shared bad experience with Lens, mainly around performance and a large amount of requests it shoots at the cluster API to a point where some companies banned it. These are the tools (I may add a video review on if anyone thinks it's worth it): * https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl - for an improved kubectl experience * https://github.com/particledecay/kconf - for those with complex kubeconfig changes requirements * https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens - an open version of Lens (note the above before using) * https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor - colored kubectl output :) * https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox - the K9s little brother? * https://github.com/bergerx/kubectl-status - human friendly resource status output

  • kubebox

    ⎈❏ Terminal and Web console for Kubernetes

  • To anyone visiting here, I got a lot of feedback for new tools (which I haven't tried yet), both on Youtube and here, so I compiled it into a list: A comment on Lens: Initially I wanted to include Lens in the video but decided it's a bit different in that it's not a CLI / TUI. Many users shared bad experience with Lens, mainly around performance and a large amount of requests it shoots at the cluster API to a point where some companies banned it. These are the tools (I may add a video review on if anyone thinks it's worth it): * https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl - for an improved kubectl experience * https://github.com/particledecay/kconf - for those with complex kubeconfig changes requirements * https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens - an open version of Lens (note the above before using) * https://github.com/hidetatz/kubecolor - colored kubectl output :) * https://github.com/astefanutti/kubebox - the K9s little brother? * https://github.com/bergerx/kubectl-status - human friendly resource status output

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