Installation

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Overview

K9s is available on Linux, macOS and Windows platforms.

• Binaries for Linux, Windows and Mac are available as tarballs in the release page.

• MacOS

   # Via Homebrew
   brew install derailed/k9s/k9s
   # Via MacPort
   sudo port install k9s
  

• Linux

   # Via LinuxBrew
   brew install derailed/k9s/k9s
   # Via PacMan
   pacman -S k9s
  

• Windows

  # Via scoop
  scoop install k9s
  # Via chocolatey
  choco install k9s
  

Building From Source

K9s is currently using go v1.14 or above. In order to build K9 from source you must:

1. Clone the repo

2. Build and run the executable

     make build && ./execs/k9s
   

PreFlight Check

• K9s uses 256 colors terminal mode. On `Nix system make sure TERM is set accordingly.

    export TERM=xterm-256color
  

• In order to issue resource edit commands make sure your EDITOR and/or KUBE_EDITOR env vars are set.

    # Kubectl edit command will use this env var.
    export KUBE_EDITOR=my_fav_editor
  

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