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⤢ K9S KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS · MAC · 52 ESSENTIAL 1 Head 2 Since 1m 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Tail Q Back W Toggle Wr… E Edit R ⌃ Reload T Toggle Ti… Y YAML U Use Name… I O Show Node P Logs Previ… A ⌃ Show Res… S Shell D Describe F ⌃ Page Down G Goto Top H Left J Down K Up L Logs Z ReplicaSets X Decode Se… C Cordon V B ⌃ Page Up N Next Match M Mark MORE SHORTCUTS Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ View ↵ View a Kubernet… :pod Goto Bottom ⇧ G Delete ⌃ D Scale S Restart R Toggle AutoScroll S Filter Out a Reso… /filter View a Resource… :pod › NS X Switch Kubernet… :ctx Switch Kubernet… :NS Save ⌃ S Quit ⌃ C History Back [ Last Used Com… − Mark ␣ Attach A Kill ⌃ K Port-Forward ⇧ F Uncordon U Drain R shortcutposters.com UPDATED JAN 2026 · COMPATIBLE WITH K9S · MAC K9S KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS · MAC · 52 ESSENTIAL 1 Head 2 Since 1m 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Tail A ⌃ Show Res… Z ReplicaSets E Edit R ⌃ Reload T Toggle Ti… Y YAML U Use Name… I O Show Node P Logs Previ… Q Back S Shell D Describe F ⌃ Page Down G Goto Top H Left J Down K Up L Logs M Mark W Toggle Wr… X Decode Se… C Cordon V B ⌃ Page Up N Next Match MORE SHORTCUTS Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ View ↵ View a Kubernet… :pod Goto Bottom ⇧ G Delete ⌃ D Scale S Restart R Toggle AutoScroll S Filter Out a Reso… /filter View a Resource… :pod › NS X Switch Kubernet… :ctx Switch Kubernet… :NS Save ⌃ S Quit ⌃ C History Back [ Last Used Com… − Mark ␣ Attach A Kill ⌃ K Port-Forward ⇧ F Uncordon U Drain R shortcutposters.com UPDATED JAN 2026 · COMPATIBLE WITH K9S · MAC ⤢ PODS Logs L Shell S Logs Previous P Attach A Kill ⌃ K Port-Forward ⇧ F Show PortForward F Show Node O Transfer T COMMANDS View a Kubernetes Resource :pod View a Resource in a Namespace :pod › NS X Switch Kubernetes Context :ctx Switch Kubernetes Namespace :NS Quit K9s :Q View Labeled Pods :pod › app=fred,env=dev View Pods in a Given Context :pod › @ctx1 Launch Pulses View :pulses NODES Cordon C Uncordon U Drain R VIEWS Toggle FullScreen F Next Match N Toggle Auto-Refresh R Prev Match ⇧ N GENERAL Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ Show Resource Aliases ⌃ A Back Q Reload ⌃ R Save ⌃ S Quit ⌃ C Command Clear ⌃ U Toggle Header ⌃ E Field Next ⇥ NAVIGATION Down J Up K Goto Top G Goto Bottom ⇧ G Page Up ⌃ B Page Down ⌃ F History Back [ Last Used Command − Left H Right L History Forward ] FILTERS Filter Out a Resource View /filter Filter by Labels / L › label selector Fuzzy Find a Resource / F › filter Inverse Regex Filter /! › filter RESOURCES View ↵ Describe D YAML Y Edit E Delete ⌃ D Mark ␣ Use Namespace U Copy C Toggle Wide ⌃ W Sort Name ⇧ N Sort Age ⇧ A Sort Status ⇧ S Decode Secret X WORKLOADS Scale S Restart R ReplicaSets Z Rollback ⌃ L Trigger T LOGS Toggle AutoScroll S Toggle Wrap W Toggle Timestamp T Toggle FullScreen F Tail 0 Toggle AllContainers A Clear ⇧ C Mark M Copy C Head 1 Since 1m 2 K9s KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS · MAC · 80 ESSENTIAL BOTH LAYOUTS QWERTY Q W E R T Y AZERTY A Z E R T Y shortcutposters.com UPDATED JAN 2026 · COMPATIBLE WITH K9S · MAC ⤢ GENERAL 12 Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ Show Resource Aliases ⌃ A Back Q Reload ⌃ R Save ⌃ S Quit ⌃ C Command Clear ⌃ U Toggle Header ⌃ E Field Next ⇥ NODES 03 Cordon C Uncordon U Drain R VIEWS 04 Toggle FullScreen F Next Match N Toggle Auto-Refresh R Prev Match ⇧ N COMMANDS 08 View a Kubernetes Re… :pod View a Resource in a… :pod › NS X Switch Kubernetes Co… :ctx Switch Kubernetes Na… :NS Quit K9s :Q View Labeled Pods :pod › app=fred,env=dev View Pods in a Given… :pod › @ctx1 Launch Pulses View :pulses NAVIGATION 11 Down J Up K Goto Top G Goto Bottom ⇧ G Page Up ⌃ B Page Down ⌃ F History Back [ Last Used Command − Left H Right L History Forward ] PODS 09 Logs L Shell S Logs Previous P Attach A Kill ⌃ K Port-Forward ⇧ F Show PortForward F Show Node O Transfer T WORKLOADS 05 Scale S Restart R ReplicaSets Z Rollback ⌃ L Trigger T FILTERS 04 Filter Out a Resourc… /filter Filter by Labels / L › label selector Fuzzy Find a Resource / F › filter Inverse Regex Filter /! › filter RESOURCES 13 View ↵ Describe D YAML Y Edit E Delete ⌃ D Mark ␣ Use Namespace U Copy C Toggle Wide ⌃ W Sort Name ⇧ N Sort Age ⇧ A Sort Status ⇧ S Decode Secret X LOGS 11 Toggle AutoScroll S Toggle Wrap W Toggle Timestamp T Toggle FullScreen F Tail 0 Toggle AllContainers A Clear ⇧ C Mark M Copy C Head 1 Since 1m 2 K9s KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS · MAC · 80 ESSENTIAL BOTH LAYOUTS QWERTY Q W E R T Y AZERTY A Z E R T Y shortcutposters.com UPDATED JAN 2026 · COMPATIBLE WITH K9S · MAC ⤢ K9S · KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Mac · 10 SETS · No.01 K9S TOTAL 80 SHORTCUTS FOR MAC · SHIPPED COMBOS SETS GENERAL 12 RESOURCES 13 PODS 09 COMMANDS 08 NAVIGATION 11 WORKLOADS 05 NODES 03 LOGS 11 FILTERS 04 VIEWS 04 REF. EDITION · JAN 2026 shortcutposters.com Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ Show Resource Aliases ⌃ A Back Q Reload ⌃ R Save ⌃ S Quit ⌃ C Command Clear ⌃ U Toggle Header ⌃ E Field Next ⇥ View ↵ Describe D YAML Y Edit E Delete ⌃ D Mark ␣ Use Namespace U Copy C Toggle Wide ⌃ W Sort Name ⇧ N Sort Age ⇧ A Sort Status ⇧ S Decode Secret X Logs L Shell S Logs Previous P Attach A Kill ⌃ K Port-Forward ⇧ F Show PortForward F Show Node O Transfer T View a Kubernetes Resource :pod View a Resource in a Nam… :pod › NS X Switch Kubernetes Context :ctx Switch Kubernetes Namespace :NS Quit K9s :Q View Labeled P… :pod › app=fred,env=dev View Pods in a Given Cont… :pod › @ctx1 Launch Pulses View :pulses Down J Up K Goto Top G Goto Bottom ⇧ G Page Up ⌃ B Page Down ⌃ F History Back [ Last Used Command − Left H Right L History Forward ] Scale S Restart R ReplicaSets Z Rollback ⌃ L Trigger T Cordon C Uncordon U Drain R Toggle AutoScroll S Toggle Wrap W Toggle Timestamp T Toggle FullScreen F Tail 0 Toggle AllContainers A Clear ⇧ C Mark M Copy C Head 1 Since 1m 2 Filter Out a Resource View /filter Filter by Lab… / L › label selector Fuzzy Find a Resource / F › filter Inverse Regex Filter /! › filter Toggle FullScreen F Next Match N Toggle Auto-Refresh R Prev Match ⇧ N K9S KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS · MAC · 14 ESSENTIAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Q Back W E R ⌃ Reload T Y YAML U I O P A ⌃ Show Res… S Shell D Describe F G H J Down K L Logs Z X C V B N M MORE SHORTCUTS Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ View ↵ View a Kubernetes Re… :pod shortcutposters.com UPDATED JAN 2026 · COMPATIBLE WITH K9S · MAC Keyboard map RESOURCES View ↵ Describe D YAML Y PODS Logs L Shell S NAVIGATION Down J GENERAL Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ Show Resource Aliases ⌃ A Back Q Reload ⌃ R COMMANDS View a Kubernetes Resource :pod K9s KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS · MAC · 14 ESSENTIAL BOTH LAYOUTS QWERTY Q W E R T Y AZERTY A Z E R T Y shortcutposters.com UPDATED JAN 2026 · COMPATIBLE WITH K9S · MAC Isometric RESOURCES 03 View ↵ Describe D YAML Y PODS 02 Logs L Shell S NAVIGATION 01 Down J GENERAL 07 Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ Show Resource Aliases ⌃ A Back Q Reload ⌃ R COMMANDS 01 View a Kubernetes Resour… :pod K9s KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS · MAC · 14 ESSENTIAL BOTH LAYOUTS QWERTY Q W E R T Y AZERTY A Z E R T Y shortcutposters.com UPDATED JAN 2026 · COMPATIBLE WITH K9S · MAC Typewriter K9S · KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Mac · 5 SETS · No.01 K9S TOTAL 14 SHORTCUTS FOR MAC · SHIPPED COMBOS SETS GENERAL 07 RESOURCES 03 PODS 02 COMMANDS 01 NAVIGATION 01 REF. EDITION · JAN 2026 shortcutposters.com Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ Show Resource Aliases ⌃ A Back Q Reload ⌃ R View ↵ Describe D YAML Y Logs L Shell S View a Kubernetes Resource :pod Down J Editorial K9s is a terminal UI for Kubernetes that turns kubectl's flags and YAML into a live, navigable dashboard of your cluster. Everything happens through the keyboard: a colon opens command mode to jump to any resource, a slash filters the current view, and single letters describe, edit, tail logs or shell into a pod. The keys are identical on macOS, Windows and Linux because they are read by the terminal, not the OS.
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17 Action Shortcut View ↵ Describe D YAML Y Edit E Delete ⌃ D Mark ␣ Use Namespace U Copy C Toggle Wide ⌃ W Sort Name ⇧ N Sort Age ⇧ A Sort Status ⇧ S Decode Secret X Mark Range ⌃ ␣ Marks Clear ⌃ \ Toggle Faults ⌃ Z Sort Selected Column ⇧ O
16 Action Shortcut Toggle AutoScroll S Toggle Wrap W Toggle Timestamp T Toggle FullScreen F Tail 0 Toggle AllContainers A Clear ⇧ C Mark M Copy C Head 1 Since 1m 2 Toggle ColumnLock ⇧ L Since 5m 3 Since 15m 4 Since 30m 5 Since 1h 6
14 Action Shortcut Command Mode : Filter Mode / Help ⇧ / Back / Clear ⎋ Show Resource Aliases ⌃ A Back Q Reload ⌃ R Save ⌃ S Quit ⌃ C Command Clear ⌃ U Toggle Header ⌃ E Field Next ⇥ Toggle Crumbs ⌃ G Field Previous ⇧ ⇥
13 Action Shortcut Down J Up K Goto Top G Goto Bottom ⇧ G Page Up ⌃ B Page Down ⌃ F History Back [ Last Used Command − Left H Right L History Forward ] Select Previous Column ⇧ ← Select Next Column ⇧ →
10 Action Shortcut Logs L Shell S Logs Previous P Attach A Kill ⌃ K Port-Forward ⇧ F Show PortForward F Show Node O Transfer T Sanitize Z
10 Action Shortcut View a Kubernetes Resource :pod View a Resource in a Namespace :pod ns-x Switch Kubernetes Context :ctx Switch Kubernetes Namespace :ns Quit K9s :q View Labeled Pods :pod app=fred,env=dev View Pods in a Given Context :pod @ctx1 Launch Pulses View :pulses Launch XRay View :xray RESOURCE [NAMESPACE] View Saved Resources :screendump
5 Action Shortcut Scale S Restart R ReplicaSets Z Rollback ⌃ L Trigger T
5 Action Shortcut Toggle FullScreen F Next Match N Toggle Auto-Refresh R Prev Match ⇧ N Erase ⌦
4 Action Shortcut Filter Out a Resource View /filter Filter by Labels /-l label-selector Fuzzy Find a Resource /-f filter Inverse Regex Filter /! filter
3 Action Shortcut Cordon C Uncordon U Drain R
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Frequently asked questions
Does the poster include every K9s shortcut? K9s has 97 keyboard shortcuts on macOS — the complete list is free to read on this page. The poster features the most essential ones, curated to stay readable on a wall.
Can I print it at home? Yes. The digital download is a high-resolution 300 DPI file you can print at home or at any print shop, in standard frame sizes.
Does it cover both Mac and Windows? We sell a separate edition per platform so every key matches your keyboard exactly. This page is the macOS edition.
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