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Kubectl projects on GitHub

Command line client for controlling Kubernetes clusters.

As of , the most-starred Kubectl projects on GitHub are kubectx (20K stars), vcluster (11.4K stars) and netshoot (11K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Kubectl repositories with 44.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was sofka, with +10 stars in a day.

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44.5KStars in total
+13Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+10

sofka

nklmilojevic/sofka · ★ 1.8K

Sofka is a terminal UI (TUI) for managing Kubernetes clusters, written in Rust on top of kube-rs and ratatui, with an async-first design so the UI never freezes while talking to the cluster.

+1

kubectx

ahmetb/kubectx · ★ 20K

Two tiny command-line helpers for kubectl: kubectx switches between your Kubernetes clusters (contexts) and kubens switches the active namespace — no more typing long kubectl config commands.

+1

vcluster

loft-sh/vcluster · ★ 11.4K

vCluster creates Tenant Clusters: fully isolated virtual Kubernetes clusters, each with its own API server, CRDs, and RBAC, running on top of an existing Kubernetes cluster or standalone on bare metal.

+1

netshoot

nicolaka/netshoot · ★ 11K

netshoot is a Docker and Kubernetes network troubleshooting container, a 'swiss-army' image packed with networking, DNS, performance, and security tools for debugging container and host network issues.

The all-time top

5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ahmetb/kubectx

    kubectx

    Two tiny command-line helpers for kubectl: kubectx switches between your Kubernetes clusters (contexts) and kubens switches the active namespace — no more typing long kubectl config commands.

    20K
  2. #2 · loft-sh/vcluster

    vcluster

    vCluster creates Tenant Clusters: fully isolated virtual Kubernetes clusters, each with its own API server, CRDs, and RBAC, running on top of an existing Kubernetes cluster or standalone on bare metal.

    11.4K
  3. #3 · nicolaka/netshoot

    netshoot

    netshoot is a Docker and Kubernetes network troubleshooting container, a 'swiss-army' image packed with networking, DNS, performance, and security tools for debugging container and host network issues.

    11K
  1. 4

    sofka

    1.8Knklmilojevic/sofka · Rust

    Sofka is a terminal UI (TUI) for managing Kubernetes clusters, written in Rust on top of kube-rs and ratatui, with an async-first design so the UI never freezes while talking to the cluster.

  2. 5

    k10s

    319p10node/k10s · Go

    k10s is a mouse-clickable terminal UI (TUI) for managing Kubernetes clusters, built as a mouse-first alternative to k9s with instant cross-resource search, one-key logs/exec/port-forward, 8 themes, and a built-in AI assistant that already knows your current context, namespace and selected object.

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