Commands

CLI Arguments

K9s CLI comes with a view arguments that you can use to launch the tool with different configuration.

# List all available CLI options
k9s help
# Get info about K9s runtime (logs, configs, etc..)
k9s info
# Run K9s in a given namespace.
k9s -n mycoolns
# Run K9s and launch in pod view via the pod command.
k9s -c pod
# Start K9s in a non default KubeConfig context
k9s --context coolCtx
# Start K9s in readonly mode - with all modification commands disabled
k9s --readonly

Key Bindings

Action	Command	Comment
Show active keyboard mnemonics and help	`?`
Show all available resource alias	`ctrl-a`
To bail out of K9s	`:q`, `ctrl-c`
View a Kubernetes resource using singular/plural or short-name	`:`pod⏎	accepts singular, plural, short-name or alias ie pod or pods
View a Kubernetes resource in a given namespace	`:`pod ns-x⏎
View filtered pods	`:`pod /fred⏎	View all pods filtered by fred
View labeled pods	`:`pod app=fred,env=dev⏎	View all pods with labels matching app=fred and env=dev
View pods in a given context	`:`pod @ctx1⏎	View all pods in context ctx1. Switches out your current k9s context!
Filter out a resource view given a filter	`/`filter⏎	Regex2 supported ie `fred\|blee` to filter resources named fred or blee
Inverse regex filter	`/`! filter⏎	Keep everything that doesn’t match.
Filter resource view by labels	`/`-l label-selector⏎
Fuzzy find a resource given a filter	`/`-f filter⏎
Bails out of view/command/filter mode	`<esc>`
Key mapping to describe, view, edit, view logs,…	`d`,`v`, `e`, `l`,…
To view and switch to another Kubernetes context (Pod view)	`:`ctx⏎
To view and switch directly to another Kubernetes context (Last used view)	`:`ctx context-name⏎
To view and switch to another Kubernetes namespace	`:`ns⏎
To view all saved resources	`:`screendump or sd⏎
To delete a resource (TAB and ENTER to confirm)	`ctrl-d`
To kill a resource (no confirmation dialog, equivalent to kubectl delete –now)	`ctrl-k`
Launch pulses view	`:`pulses or pu⏎
Launch XRay view	`:`xray RESOURCE [NAMESPACE]⏎	RESOURCE can be one of po, svc, dp, rs, sts, ds, NAMESPACE is optional

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