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K9s is a terminal UI for Kubernetes that lets you browse resources, read logs, open shells and follow cluster changes from the keyboard.

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K9s is a widely used open-source terminal interface for Kubernetes clusters. It watches the cluster continuously and shows resources in navigable tables, so you can jump from a Deployment to its Pods, read logs, describe objects and open a shell without typing long kubectl commands.

It uses your normal kubeconfig and RBAC permissions. You switch views with commands such as :pod or :deploy, and ? lists the key bindings. Starting it with k9s --readonly disables modifying commands, which is a sensible default when browsing production clusters. Installation options, including Homebrew and prebuilt binaries, are listed in the README.

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