# danielfoehrKn/kubeswitch

The kubectx  for operators.

Repository: https://github.com/danielfoehrKn/kubeswitch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kubeswitch
Homepage: https://danielfoehrkn.medium.com/the-case-of-kubeswitch-aff4b6a04ae7
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: kubectx, kubeconfig, kubecontext, kubernetes, kubeswitch
Last push: 2025-05-18T00:44:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 36/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 22, release rhythm 16, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2438, "days_push": 473, "days_rel": 559, "gap_med": 112, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1186, forks 107 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:55.149107+00:00)

## What it is
kubeswitch is a CLI tool for discovering and switching between Kubernetes contexts across many kubeconfig files and stores (filesystem, Vault, EKS, GKE, AKS, and more). It is designed as a drop-in replacement for kubectx, aimed at operators managing large-scale Kubernetes landscapes.

## Use cases
- switch between hundreds of kubernetes cluster contexts
- search kubeconfig files across directories and vault
- replace kubectx with a scalable alternative
- set namespace per terminal window without overwriting kubeconfig
- find clusters with cryptic context names
- alias kubernetes contexts without editing kubeconfig

## When to choose
- you operate many clusters with kubeconfigs spread across stores
- you need unified search over cloud providers and Vault
- you want per-terminal context and namespace isolation

## When to avoid
- you only manage a handful of local contexts and kubectx suffices
- you need a GUI dashboard for cluster management

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, developer-tools, configuration-management, search-engine
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing
- platform: cli, windows, cross-platform
- tags: kubernetes, kubeconfig, kubectx, context-switching, kubectl, go, command-line, devops, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- danielfoehrKn/kubeswitch (main) score 36

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:55.149107+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:23:53.141216+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/danielfoehrKn/kubeswitch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:55.149107+00:00, sha e83a7f9ced1c)
  - homepage: https://danielfoehrkn.medium.com/the-case-of-kubeswitch-aff4b6a04ae7 (fetched 2026-08-29T12:30:49.879976+00:00, sha 0e1a2243db90)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.