K9s - Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

K9s provides a curses based terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage your applications. This command line app continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with observed resources.

Installation

Homebrew (OSX)

brew tap derailed/k9s && brew install k9s

Binary Releases

Releases

Commands

K9s uses 2 or 3 letters alias to navigate most K8s resource
At any time you can use ?<Enter> to look up the various commands
Use alias<Enter> to activate a resource under that alias
Ctrl sequences are used to view, edit, delete, ssh ...
Use ctx<Enter> to switch between clusters
Use Q or Ctrl-C to Quit.

Demo Video

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
Web: K9s