Learn Kubyl

What Kubyl is, what it covers and how these docs are organised.

Install Kubyl with Homebrew, apt, dnf, pacman, a release download or from source.

Connect your first cluster and find your way around in five minutes.

How Kubyl finds kubeconfigs, groups contexts and shows connection state.

Client certificates, tokens, exec plugins, OIDC and OpenShift OAuth.

Create, edit, test and import kubeconfigs without leaving Kubyl.

Guard rails for clusters you can't afford to break.

Title bar, sidebar, tabs, docks and status bar.

Six prefixes that get you anywhere in the cluster.

Live tables, filter syntax, sorting, the details panel and actions.

Schema-aware editing, diff against live, dry run and server-side apply.

Follow logs from pods, workloads and services with search and level filters.

Exec shells, attach, debug containers and node shells in a real terminal.

Forward ports from pods, services and workloads and keep them alive.

Two-pane file manager between your machine and a container.

Cluster and namespace dashboards, events and CPU/memory metrics.

Alertmanager alerts, silences and Prometheus rules per cluster or across all clusters.

Live flows and topology from Cilium Hubble, Calico Whisker or NetObserv.

Open Grafana, Prometheus and other in-cluster web UIs inside Kubyl.

OperatorHub, OLM operators, Helm releases and OLM v1 extensions.

Update paths, pre-flight checks and upgrades for OpenShift and managed clusters.

Applications, resource trees, diff, sync, history and rollback.

Every key in settings.json with its default, and how the file behaves.

The complete default keymap and the k9s preset.

Map your k9s habits to Kubyl.

Where Kubyl stores configuration, state, logs and secrets, and the environment variables it reads.

How Kubyl updates itself, what it connects to and what it stores.

What isn't finished or isn't there yet.