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Helm vs K9s: What are the differences?
Developers describe Helm as "The Kubernetes Package Manager". Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes. On the other hand, K9s is detailed as "🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style". K9s provides a curses based 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 observed resources.
Helm and K9s can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.
Helm and K9s are both open source tools. It seems that Helm with 12.6K GitHub stars and 4.06K forks on GitHub has more adoption than K9s with 2.57K GitHub stars and 131 GitHub forks.
Pros of Helm
- Infrastructure as code6
- Open source4
- Easy setup2
- Testability and reproducibility1
Pros of K9s
- Nice UI and fast way to manage my kubernetes clusters2