Table of Contents
brew install k9s
Return to k9s, K8S, K8S Installation, brew install, Cloud Monk's Development PC DevOps Automation via Ansible-Chocolatey-PowerShell-Homebrew-DNF-APT, choco install kind
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/k9s
k9s - Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
Who Let The Pods Out?
K9s is a terminal based UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage your deployed applications in the wild. K9s continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent K8S commands to interact with your observed K8S resources.
Features
- Information At Your Finger Tips!
- Tracks in real-time activities of resources running in your Kubernetes cluster.
- Standard or CRD?
- Handles both Kubernetes standard resources as well as custom resource definitions.
- Cluster Metrics
- Tracks real-time metrics associates with resources such as pods, containers and nodes.
- Power Users Welcome!
- Provides standard cluster management commands such as logs, scaling, port-forwards, restarts…
- Define your own command shortcuts for quick navigation via command aliases and hotkeys.
- Plugin support to extend K9s to create your very own cluster commands.
- Powerful filtering mode to allow user to drill down and view workload related resources.
- Error Zoom
- Drill down directly to what’s wrong with your cluster’s resources.
- Skinnable and Customizable
- Define your very own look and feel via K9s skins.
- Customize/Arrange which columns to display on a per resource basis.
- Narrow or Wide?
- Provides toggles to view minimal or full resource definitions
- MultiResources Views
- Provides for an overview of your cluster resources via Pulses and XRay views.
- We’ve got your K8S RBAC!
- Supports for viewing RBAC rules such as cluster/roles and their associated bindings.
Reverse lookup to asserts what a user/group or ServiceAccount can do on your clusters.
- Built-in Benchmarking
- You can benchmark your HTTP services/pods directly from K9s to see how your application fare and adjust your resources request/limit accordingly.
- Resource Graph Traversals
- K9s provides for easy traversal of Kubernetes resources and their associated resources.
Sponsor Them!
If you dig this effort and feel K9s is improving your Kubernetes experience and productivity for you or your team, please join our sponsorship program! K9s is complex and and a lot of work, by clicking the Sponsor button you can help show your support and appreciation. Alternatively, just simply give us a shoot-out on social as these go a long way in keeping our batteries charged up!
Alternatively, if you dig K9s, please checkout K9sAlpha. The AlphaDog encompasses things you love about K9s with additional advanced features that will help you further improve your Kubernetes cluster management. K9sAlpha is a paid version of K9s and your contributions is what help us power both offerings. As you may know, K9s and K9sAlpha are not pimped out by big corporations with deep pockets, both projects chew up a lot of our free time, so if K9s improves your Kubernetes productivity for you or your company, please consider pitching back!
macOS
brew install k9s
=⇒ Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/k9s/manifests/0.26.7
=⇒ Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/k9s/blobs/sha256:bf6715e4a599bb9d574ec0e0ac3772204ec985576dc616f89d12769af8b807cf
=⇒ Downloading from https://pkg-containers.githubusercontent.com/ghcr1/blobs/sha256:bf6715e4a599bb9d574ec0e0ac3772204ec985576dc616f89d12769
=⇒ Pouring k9s–0.26.7.monterey.bottle.tar.gz
=⇒ Caveats
zsh completions have been installed to:
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
=⇒ Summary
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/k9s/0.26.7: 9 files, 68.5MB
=⇒ Running `brew cleanup k9s`…
Disable this behaviour by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP.
Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
iMac ~ % k9s version
____ __.________]] | brew_install_k9s | / _/ __ \______ | < \____ / ___/ | brew_install_k9s | \ / /\___ \ | ____ | n/a ---- [[k9s help
K9s is a K8S CLI to view and manage Kubernetes clusters.
Usage:
k9s [flags] k9s [command]
Available Commands:
completion Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
help Help about any command
info Print configuration info
version Print version/build info
Flags:
-A, --all-namespaces Launch K9s in all namespaces
--as string Username to impersonate for the operation
--as-group stringArray Group to impersonate for the operation
--certificate-authority string Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
--client-certificate string Path to a client certificate file for TLS
--client-key string Path to a client key file for TLS
--cluster string The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
-c, --command string Overrides the default resource to load when the application launches
--context string The name of the kubeconfig context to use
--crumbsless Turn K9s crumbs off
--headless Turn K9s header off
-h, --help help for k9s
--insecure-skip-tls-verify If true, the server's caCertFile will not be checked for validity
--kubeconfig string Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests
--logFile string Specify the log file (default "/var/folders/jg/n46zk28s6178fggftfvqd0zr0000gn/T/k9s-bowman.log")
-l, --logLevel string Specify a log level (info, warn, debug, trace, error) (default "info")
--logoless Turn K9s logo off
-n, --namespace string If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
--readonly Sets readOnly mode by overriding readOnly configuration setting
-r, --refresh int Specify the default refresh rate as an integer (sec) (default 2)
--request-timeout string The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request
--screen-dump-dir string Sets a path to a dir for a screen dumps
--token string Bearer token for authentication to the API server
--user string The name of the kubeconfig user to use
--write Sets write mode by overriding the readOnly configuration setting
Use “k9s [command] –help” for more information about a command.
Linux
Ubuntu
brew install k9s=⇒ Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/k9s/manifests/0.32.5
- 100.0%
=⇒ Fetching k9s =⇒ Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/k9s/blobs/sha256:7976a912773c66e26bac3c89e5886dc369f2d23f34efc916f76ec28a16e5c5c
- 100.0%
=⇒ Pouring k9s–0.32.5.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz =⇒ Caveats Bash completion has been installed to:
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/etc/bash_completion.d=⇒ Summary 🍺 /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/k9s/0.32.5: 10 files, 119.8MB =⇒ Running `brew cleanup k9s`… Disable this behaviour by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
See navbar_k8s
Homebrew related ONLY: Give me a 100 term vocabulary list sorted by popularity in usage (by commonly used / frequency of use in codebases). That means 100 terms, not 100 words. DO NOT REPEAT YOURSELF. Acronyms related to Homebrew technology are allowed but they must be expanded. e.g. RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization). The terms should have to do ONLY with and SPECIFICALLY with Homebrew, CANNOT include generic operating system terms, generic IT terms, or computing terms. No definitions. Just the words. Each word should be surrounded by double brackets and separated by a comma and on the same lines. e.g. robots, robotics. Etc.
Homebrew, brew command, brew install, brew uninstall, brew update, brew upgrade, brew cleanup, brew doctor, brew info, brew search, brew tap, brew untap, brew list, brew outdated, brew services, brew cask, brew bundle, brew analytics, brew edit, brew audit, brew formula, brew caveats, brew switch, brew pin, brew unpin, brew desc, brew deps, brew leaves, brew link, brew unlink, brew unlinkapps, brew man, brew shellenv, brew missing, brew tap-info, brew tap-pin, brew tap-unpin, brew test-bot, brew style, brew linkapps, brew bump-formula-pr, brew livecheck, brew bottle, brew pull, brew create, brew gist-logs, brew alias, brew autoremove, brew completions, brew generate-man, brew postinstall, brew upgrade --greedy, brew versions, brew uses, brew reinstall, brew extract, brew install --build-from-source, brew install --HEAD, brew config, brew dependencies, brew dependents, brew doctor --debug, brew fetch, brew fetch --deps, brew test, brew audit --strict, brew audit --new-formula, brew linkage, brew list --formula, brew list --cask, brew tap --repair, brew services list, brew services start, brew services stop, brew services restart, brew cleanup --prune, brew cleanup --dry-run, brew uninstall --force, brew autoremove --force, brew install --force, brew edit --force, brew bundle --file, brew bundle dump, brew bundle install, brew bundle cleanup, brew bundle check, brew bundle exec, brew bundle dump --force, brew list --versions, brew search --desc, brew search --casks, brew search --formulae, brew update-reset, brew outdated --verbose, brew pin --force, brew list --pinned, brew tap-info --verbose, brew analytics off, brew analytics on, brew tap-new, brew unbottled.
Homebrew: Cloud Monk's Package Manager Book Homebrew Chapter, Cloud Monk's Development PC DevOps Automation via Ansible-Chocolatey-PowerShell-Homebrew-DNF-APT, Homebrew Glossary - Glossaire de Homebrew - French, Homebrew Fundamentals, Homebrew Inventor - Homebrew Designer: Mike McQuaid, Brew DevOps - Homebrew on macOS - macOS DevOps - MacOps, Homebrew on Linux - Linux DevOps - LinuxOps, Homebrew Automation, Idempotent, Refreshenv, Homebrew Topics, macOS Package Managers, Package managers, macOS Configuration Management, PowerShell on macOS Ansible on macOS, Chef on macOS, Puppet on macOS (navbar_brew - see also navbar_choco, navbar_package_manager)
Cloud Monk is Retired ( for now). Buddha with you. © 2025 and Beginningless Time - Present Moment - Three Times: The Buddhas or Fair Use. Disclaimers
SYI LU SENG E MU CHYWE YE. NAN. WEI LA YE. WEI LA YE. SA WA HE.