derailed/k9s
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
34.8k stars · 2.3k forks · Go
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 29 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 20
- Human commits, 90 days
- 46
- Human commits, 365 days
- 135
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 47%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 29
- Last release
- Jun 6, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 9 hours
Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 76% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 135 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 9
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 47
- Contributors
- 393
Top committers
- uozalp: 30% of commits
- derailed: 7% of commits
- christophersherman: 3% of commits
- mpas97: 3% of commits
- s3onghyun: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- May 23, 2019 to May 30, 2019: about 148 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 27, 2019 to Oct 29, 2019: about 137 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 30, 2020 to Jun 5, 2020: about 461 more stars than usual, peak 154 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 19, 2023 to Jul 21, 2023: about 188 more stars than usual, peak 151 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- github.com/derailed/k9s (GO): latest v0.51.0, published Jun 6, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: derailed/k9s, deps.dev: Go github.com/derailed/k9s
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2