Comparisons with Similar Packages/Tools

This page compares kubernetes-el with some of its peer packages.

Kele

Kele is an early-stage Kubernetes cluster management package for Emacs.

Kele aims to provide a cluster management interface that is more piecemeal and targeted than kubernetes-el. Kele optimizes for minimal context-switching, providing quick and targeted keybindings and nested command trees that enable you to get the answers that you need – or carry out the tasks that you need to carry out – and return to your other work as quickly as possible.

One advantage that Kele has over kubernetes-el is its day-one support for custom resources and the full Kubernetes core resource API – Pods, Deployments, DaemonSets, etc. kubernetes-el‘s lack of support for both is a long-standing drawback of the package (see [kubernetes-el/kubernetes-el#69]).

On the other hand, kubernetes-el has far more of a “GUI” than Kele. It centers heavily around an “overview”-based interface and is, as a result, more suited to in-depth, intentful, focused exploration of one’s cluster(s).

kubel

kubel is a similar “UI-centric” cluster management package to [kubernetes-el]. Its advantage over [kubernetes-el] is its accommodation of users with limited privilege/permissions within the clusters in question.