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K9s - A command line application to manage your kubernetes clusters.

A CLI written in GO and curses to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage your clusters.

K9s is a CLI for Kubernetes. It provides a bit more information about your cluster than kubectl while allowing to perform primordial Kubernetes commands with ease.

Installation

Homebrew (OSX)

brew tap derailed/k9s https://github.com/derailed/k9s-homebrew-tap.git
brew install k9s

Binary Releases

Releases

Features

Note: k9s does not have an idiot light. Please be sure to hit the correct command sequences to avoid pilot errors. Are you sure? not in effect here...

k9s uses 2 or 3 letters alias to navigate most Kubernetes resources
At any time you can use ?<Enter> to look up the various commands
Use alias<Enter> to activate a resource under that alias
Use Esc to erase previous keystrokes.
Use Q or Ctrl-C to Quit.
Ctrl sequences are used to view, edit, delete, ssh ...
Use ctx<Enter> to see and switch between your clusters

Video Demo

k9s Demo

Screen Shots

Pod View

Log View

Known Issues...

This initial drop is brittle. k9s will most likely blow up if...

Your kube-config file does not live under $HOME/.kube or you use multiple configs
You don't have enough RBAC fu to manage your cluster
Your cluster does not run a metrics-server

Disclaimer

This is still work in progress! If there is enough interest in the Kubernetes community, we will enhance per your recommendations/contributions. Also if you dig this effort, please let us know that too!

ATTA Girls/Boys!

k9s sits on top of two very cool GO projects that provides the much needed terminal support. So big thanks and shootout to the good folks at tcell+tview for making k9s a reality!!

tcell
tview

Contact Information

Email: fernand@imhotep.io
Twitter: @kitesurfer
Github: k9s

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