Sofka – much faster k9s alternative in Rust
Hi everyone, I was recently much frustrated with speed of k9s that I use regularly and decided to create a rust alternative that is much faster. Architecture comes from me, and (shocking) Fable coded most of the things. My whole company switched to it and experience has been great - much faster, integrated tightly with Flux/helm/externalsecrets and develops much faster. I know that there is an overall sentiment on HN with using LLMs, so YMMV. In terms of speed, you can check the benchmarks:…
What it does
A Kubernetes TUI, reimagined in Rust - built on kube-rs and ratatui, async-first from the ground up. - nklmilojevic/sofka
A Kubernetes TUI written in Rust, on kube-rs and ratatui . Async everywhere, so the UI never blocks on the cluster. sofka.rs - the website, with a watchable tour of a real session ( sofka.rs/#play ). That's Sophie, a Russian Blue. She sits behind the monitor and watches the screen. Constantly, not sometimes. She has the narrow-eyed look of someone who has seen a pod in CrashLoopBackOff . She catches every state change and doesn't get distracted. She is, in effect, a cluster watchman that is a cat. sofka is the Serbian short form of Sophia, which means "wisdom". A good cluster TUI and a good cat both watch things closely, and both know when something is wrong. sofka is a reimagining of k9s…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi everyone, I was recently much frustrated with speed of k9s that I use regularly and decided to create a rust alternative that is much faster. Architecture comes from me, and (shocking) Fable coded most of the things. My whole company switched to it and experience has been great - much faster, integrated tightly with Flux/helm/externalsecrets and develops much faster. I know that there is an overall sentiment on HN with using LLMs, so YMMV. In terms of speed, you can check the benchmarks: https://github.com/nklmilojevic/sofka/blob/main/docs/benchma... If you have issues - please open on Github and PRs are of course welcome!
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