K9s

Kubernetes CLI to manage your clusters in style

Development System & Monitoring linuxmacoswindows Go Apache-2.0

Description

K9s provides a terminal UI to interact with Kubernetes clusters. It continuously watches for changes, offers a rich set of commands for managing resources, and provides real-time views of logs, events, and resource utilization.

Install

homebrewbrew install derailed/k9s/k9s

pacmansudo pacman -S k9s

AI Summary

A terminal UI for Kubernetes cluster management. Provides real-time views of pods, deployments, services, and logs with vim-style navigation and resource management.

Capabilities

+ Real-time views of Kubernetes resources
+ Pod logs, shell access, and port-forwarding
+ Resource filtering and sorting
+ Multi-cluster and multi-namespace support

Use When

→ Monitoring and managing Kubernetes clusters interactively
→ Debugging pods with quick access to logs and shell
→ Want a faster workflow than kubectl for cluster operations

Avoid When

x Scripting Kubernetes operations (use kubectl)
x Don't work with Kubernetes

Usage Patterns

Launch Kubernetes TUI

k9s

Opens the interactive Kubernetes cluster manager

View specific namespace

k9s -n my-namespace

Opens K9s focused on a specific namespace

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