Sofka
much faster k9s alternative in Rust
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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!
HN · launched Aug 19, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A terminal UI for Kubernetes in Rust can be built with Ratatui and kube-rs; the author explicitly notes that an AI agent (Fable) wrote most of the code.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #270 of 322 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
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