Posts tagged: k8s

I was debugging some ArgoCD stuff earlier today and I love using k9s to explore my k8s resources.

The TLDR is that I put some bad env vars in the global values for my ArgoCD pods, this caused the webUI to hang. An easy way to push things through is to open k9s, view the Deployments, and edit the env vars there so the pods can be in the right state to restart and pickup the changes (you’ve obviously fixed the values file already right?)

Well the Notification Controller was the pod hanging, and I couldn’t find it in the Deployments view! This blew my mind… until I realized that it was a Stateful Set.

So, this is not a comparison of the 2 - this is just a note to say that all I had to do was find the StatefulSets in k9s and do the same workflow for editing what I needed to edit to get the pods into workable state while working on the values file…

To customize k9s use the skins from catppuccin or the ones k9s supplies

OUT="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/k9s/skins"
mkdir -p "$OUT"
curl -L https://github.com/catppuccin/k9s/archive/main.tar.gz | tar xz -C "$OUT" --strip-components=2 k9s-main/dist

Then edit your k9s config

# ~/.config/k9s/config.yml
k9s:
  ui:
    skin: catppuccin-mocha
    # ...or another flavor:
    # skin: catppuccin-macchiato
    # skin: catppuccin-frappe
    # skin: catppuccin-latte

    # ...or the transparent variants:
    # skin: catppuccin-mocha-transparent
    # skin: catppuccin-macchiato-transparent
    # skin: catppuccin-frappe-transparent
    # skin: catppuccin-latte-transparent

Other k9s skins are available here