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Two habits cover most of it: press ⌘K to go anywhere, and press / to filter the list you’re on. On Windows and Linux, use Ctrl instead of ⌘.

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The command palette

Press ⌘K (or click Search… in the header) and type. Case doesn’t matter. Views and commands match when every word you type appears in them, in any order, so vol cl finds Volume Claims. Objects match when their name contains what you typed.
The command palette open over the app, listing matching objects, views and actions.The command palette open over the app, listing matching objects, views and actions.

Finding anything in the cluster, or anything to do, from the keyboard.

Results come in groups: Move with ↑ ↓, press ↵ to pick, and Esc to close.
Some views answer to other words too: prometheus or usage history finds Metrics, charts finds Helm releases, and crds finds API resources.

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Go-to keys

Every main view has a two-key shortcut: press G, then a letter, within about a second. For example G P for Pods, G D for Deployments. The sidebar shows each view’s keys when you hover it, and Keyboard shortcuts lists them all.

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Narrowing a list

Every list has the same three tools above it.

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Health

The chips count each health level in the list: Failing, Warning, In progress, Healthy, Inactive (some kinds use their own words, like Running for pods). Click one to show only those, and click more to add them. Click it again to clear it.

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Filter

Press /, or click the filter box, and type. It matches, without case:
  • names and namespaces
  • labels, written as key=value, like app=checkout
  • for events, the reason, message and object’s name
  • for custom resources, what the list’s columns show
On the Workloads page, the filter also matches each workload’s kind and images. ↓ moves from the filter into the list. Esc leaves the filter.

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Label selector

The label selector is sent to the cluster, which does the filtering, so it’s the way to narrow lists in big clusters. It takes Kubernetes’ own syntax; press ↵ to apply it.
A list stops at 5,000 objects (or KUBESTACKS_MAX_LIST_ITEMS). When there are more, it says so, with Filter by label, because a selector lets the cluster send only the ones you want.

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Sorting and pages

  • Sort by clicking a column’s header, and again to reverse it. Lists start sorted by status, the most urgent first; kinds with no status by name, and events by when they were last seen.
  • Pages hold 100 rows, or 50, 250 or 500 (Rows per page). Use ← → for the previous and next page.

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Moving through a list

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Back and Forward

The filter, health chips, label selector, sort, page and the open object are all part of the page’s address. Back (⌘[ or Alt←) and Forward (⌘] or Alt→) bring each of them back, like in a browser.
In your cluster: these addresses are real links. Copy one from the address bar to share a filtered list, or an open pod, with a teammate.

Keyboard shortcuts

Every shortcut, in one place.

Several at once

Act on the rows you’ve picked.