kubernetes-client/javascript

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2267 stars · 568 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The official Kubernetes client library for JavaScript/TypeScript, usable from Node.js server-side code. It provides typed API clients for all Kubernetes API groups plus KubeConfig loading, watch, informer, and exec support.

Use cases

• list pods in a namespace from a node script
• create and delete kubernetes namespaces programmatically
• manage kubernetes resources from a nodejs backend
• watch for changes to kubernetes objects
• load kubeconfig and authenticate to a cluster
• build a custom kubernetes controller or operator in typescript

When to choose

• you need to interact with the Kubernetes API from Node.js or TypeScript
• you want the official, gold-capability client maintained by kubernetes-client
• you need watch/informer/exec features in JavaScript

When to avoid

• you are building a browser-based client (it targets server-side Node)
• you use Python, Go, or Java where first-class clients exist
• you only need to run kubectl commands from a shell

Facets

library · maturity active

database-driver http-client sdk developer-tools cloud-computing apis kubernetes k8s-client kubeconfig watch informer devops nodejs typescript

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