K9s Quick Demo - A Terminal UI to interact with your K8s/Kubernetes Clusters

In this demo I quickly run through some of the basics with K9s a Terminal UI for Kubernetes, I am using a very small cluster with the very little workload but I can see the power of this little tool and hopefully you can benefit from knowing more about it.
"K9s provides a 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 in the wild. K9s continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with your observed resources."
I used Arkade to deploy, if you are deploying apps and CLIs then I strongly recommend this - github.com/ale...
But you can grab it from here github.com/der...
I went ahead after creating and found - popeyecli.io/
I also found that the benchmarking option is using this for website load benchmarking - github.com/rak...

[@TheKiems]

Nice overview of K9s. Hadn't heard of Popeye in my Kubernetes journey, so thanks for bringing that up

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Yeah going to have to check that out tomorrow.

[@CatsAndCode]

used this tool for the first time and im asking myself "where have you been all my life?????😍😍😍😍"

[@Jv4n5e]

Hi! This is the first video I see from you, and I'm in love with your terminal. How were you able to make it so it shows the timestamp of executed commands, and to show those green checkmarks?
Thank you for sharing ❤

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

ua-cam.com/video/jeEslAtHfKc/v-deo.html

[@derd3]

It would be very useful to see your keystrokes printed on screen. I've seen it elsewhere.

[@oneeyedpanda3121]

Hey, you probably get this a lot but what OS are you using and what terminal/prompt setup? Looks insane!

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Thanks, It is Ubuntu and I am using Terminator - ua-cam.com/video/jeEslAtHfKc/v-deo.html

[@johnsnow2810]

The music is too loud at the end of the video

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Thanks John Snow. Glad you made it to the end. That was the prize

[@edymonte32br]

Very good 😃

[@forexmeter3900]

Nicely done

[@danielpevzner220]

Thanks for the video. What do you type in order to open the port forward window?

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Sorry it is Shift+F to get the console up to set that.

[@okey1317]

How will I edit the yaml of a pod with this?

[@spliterator1981]

Oh man, that keyboard sounds beautiful. What model is that?

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Ha I believe amongst my collection this was the Razer Blackwidow Lite, it is not my most preferred or clicky or thunky...

[@VincentZamora-g6f]

Any info on workloads? How to set it up?

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Not sure if I shared during the video but all instructions are k9scli.io/topics/install/

[@nayeemmohammad116]

What's the terminal theme you're using?

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

I am using Dracula

[@Keenbeaver]

Is this installed on the master node?

[@Keenbeaver]

Or on your local machine

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

@@Keenbeaver yes your local machine. This way you can use it on all your Kubernetes clusters.

[@youtubegarbage4u]

would have been great you you mention the command you type as you typed them during the k9s demo; you just typed stuffs without mentioning what you typed; that is what we came to video for to learn these commands

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

Thanks for the input, not had that feedback for how long this video has been up. But I can try and help now which commands do you want me to explain?

[@youtubegarbage4u]

how did you have kubectx set up such that you can arrow up and down to select ctx?

[@90DaysOfDevOps]

It’s a plugin that I use to quickly be able to flip between different Kubernetes contexts. It’s easier than kubectl config use-context cluster name.