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derailed/k9s

This system is a terminal-based Kubernetes dashboard (K9s) that provides a rich, interactive interface for managing and observing Kubernetes resources. It features a modular architecture with dedicated packages for rendering UI components, handling Kubernetes API interactions, and managing configuration. The codebase has been significantly refactored to modernize its dependencies, remove legacy resource handling layers, and introduce new capabilities such as vulnerability scanning, port forwarding, and enhanced CLI commands.

68.7

Adequate · 1 August 2026

43k

lines of production code

Go

primary language

2

bus factor · 400 authors in all

3

measurements over time

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How it got here

2019 · Internal architecture refactoring

The project underwent a comprehensive internal refactoring, replacing the legacy resource and view layers with a new modular architecture using internal packages for clients, models, and UI components. This period focused on consolidating Kubernetes API interactions, introducing a new configuration system, and establishing a cleaner separation of concerns across the codebase.

20 changes

2020–2024 · UI and infrastructure expansion

This period focused on expanding the terminal UI with new charting components and tabular data models, while introducing infrastructure for port forwarding and vulnerability scanning. The codebase also grew with Kubernetes resource rendering, kubectl plugins, and structured configuration handling.

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 1 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
  • Measured at commit 436ea2e9f2 — the exact code this score is about.
  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.18. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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