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Command palette

The command palette is the fastest way to drive Kubus. One shortcut, and you can find any resource, run any action on it, or jump to any page without lifting your hands off the keyboard.

The command palette The command palette
Press ++ctrl+k++ and start typing.

Open it

Press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on macOS), or click the search box in the top bar.

Three modes

Just start typing. The palette searches across resources (of every kind, in every selected cluster), kinds, and pages. Use Up / Down to move and Enter to open.

Results are grouped the way the sidebar is (Workloads, Network, Config, Storage, Helm & GitOps, custom resources, kinds, pages), with the group holding the best match on top. Each row shows the kind's icon, the namespace, and for pods, workloads, nodes and claims a live status such as Running, 3/3 or CrashLoopBackOff. The part of the name that matched your text is highlighted.

Pods that share an owner collapse into one row (podinfo-5c7cd…, 3 Pods, 3 Running). The counts cover every pod in the group. If only some have been checked (they are still loading, or the results hold a lot of pods) the row says so, for example 8 Running · 8 of 20 checked. Press Enter or Right to expand it, Left to fold it again.

With nothing typed, the palette lists your favourites, the resources you opened recently, the pages you jump to most (with their g shortcut), and a few common actions: switch cluster, change namespace, install a Helm chart. Star a result to pin things you open a lot.

Highlight a resource and press Tab (or Right) to see every action for that kind: logs, shell, scale, restart, port-forward, delete and the rest. Type to filter them, Enter to run. Press Esc to step back to the search.

An action that also works as a single key on a focused list row shows that key on the right, so the palette teaches you the row shortcuts.

Type > to run app commands:

Command Does
Switch cluster… Pick a cluster from a list; Enter switches to it, Ctrl+Enter adds or removes it
Change namespace… Pick a namespace filter; Enter shows only that one, Ctrl+Enter adds or removes it
Install a Helm chart… Open the Helm page with the install dialog
Toggle dark / light mode Flip the theme
Toggle terminal dock Show/hide the bottom dock
Go to Overview Jump to the dashboard
Go to Events Open the events timeline
Go to Topology Open the topology graph
Go to Helm Releases Open the Helm page
Go to Port Forwards Open the forwards page
Go to Diff Open the diff page

Why it's worth the muscle memory

Once Ctrl+K is in your fingers, the workflow becomes: summon → type a pod name → Tab → logs. You skip the nav drawer, the list and the row menu entirely. It works like the command palette in your editor, and it covers the whole app.

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