This is an unofficial build of the software k9s. The official snap is old and unmaintained. A discussion about that can be found here.

If everything works edge should be an automatic successful build of the latest release of k9s. If this is not the case feel free to open an issue. The stable channel is used releases in edge that I have verified to be working, message me if you like a edge release promoted to stable.

Install the latest promoted stable release with:

• snap install k9s-nsg

Get the latest release from the edge channel with:

• snap install --edge k9s-nsg

The snap will read your configuration from ~/.kube, you may need to grant it access with the command snap connect k9s-nsg:kube-config.

You will find K9s configuration in $SNAP_USER_DATA/.k9s (usually ~/snap/k9s-nsg/current/.k9s/).

You can change the default editor with snap set k9s-nsg editor=<editor>, the supported editors are:

Bundled inside the snap. Nano is a popular editor. Configured to display YAML nicely. This is the default option, to change back to this run snap set k9s-nsg editor=nano

Bundled inside the snap. VIM is an popular editor and so is the Neovim fork. Configured to display YAML nicely. To change to this, run snap set k9s-nsg editor=nvim

External editors installed on your system can be accessed by setting the editor to xdg-open (snap set k9s-nsg editor=xdg-open) this should open and dialog asking what application you like to use.

KUBECONFIG works but you need to export it to be available inside the snap. If you have something like KUBECONFIG=/my/path, change that to export KUBECONFIG=/my/path/ or just add export KUBECONFIG after that line. This is the recommended way for multiple configuration files. Note that due the sandbox all files need to be inside ~/.kube/.

The sandbox is nice for security but adds limitations. If you need to run external programs/binaries they need to be moved to $SNAP_USER_DATA (usually ~/snap/k9s-nsg/current/) (note that the working directory for kubectl is $SNAP_USER_DATA/.kube/). This may or may not be possible. If this is a hard requirement for you this snap may not be working as intended. Feel free to open an issue if you like to discuss options.