nklmilojevic/sofka
A Kubernetes TUI, reimagined in Rust - built on kube-rs and ratatui, async-first from the ground up.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 28 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +253 stars on Sep 7, coincided with release v0.24.8.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an async-first Kubernetes terminal user interface (TUI) built in Rust for efficient cluster management.
- Offers a generic object pipeline supporting all CRDs out of the box, with built-in Flux and Argo CD integration without external binaries.
- Use for real-time Kubernetes cluster monitoring and troubleshooting with deterministic incident explanations and bulk resource actions.
- Use for managing GitOps workflows by suspending, resuming, and reconciling Flux CD and Argo CD applications natively within the TUI.
- Use for secure cluster operations with enforced read-only modes and guardrails to prevent accidental destructive actions in production.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
A Kubernetes TUI written in Rust, on
kube-rsandratatui. 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.
sofkais 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 with one generic object pipeline instead of a renderer per resource kind. Same purpose, different architecture. The short version:
The full feature list is long. So is the comparison with k9s, including why it's faster.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,316 stars over 61 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +253 on Sep 7.
Forks
81+57
Open issues
3-16
Compared with peers in Kubernetes
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| superplanehq/superplane | 8.8K | +435 | 60 | 7 days ago |
| aquasecurity/trivy | 39.0K | +204 | 45 | today |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.0K | +183 | 60 | 9 days ago |
| argoproj/argo-cd | 24.6K | +58 | 60 | 1 day ago |
| cilium/cilium | 25.8K | +52 | 65 | 3 days ago |
| nklmilojevic/sofka | 1.8K | — | 60 | 4 days ago |
| Category median | 24.6K | +183 | 60 | — |
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