6. Install MicroK8s management tools

MicroK8S needs some management tools to make it easier to analyze platform performance. In this guide, we will install some of them.

Original Author: Marko Rintamäki
Last checked by Amna Akram
Lastmod: 09.10.2025
Status: OK

K9s #

K9s is a terminal based UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. Kind of like top for Kubernetes.

Since the default Rocky installation does not come with wget available, we need to install it first

sudo dnf install -y wget

Next, use wget to download the latest version of K9s to your VM.

At the time of this writing (09.10.2025) the latest version is: v0.50.15

Download the relevant RPM .rpm version, for example: k9s_linux_amd64.rpm

wget https://github.com/derailed/k9s/releases/download/v0.50.15/k9s_linux_amd64.rpm

Finally, install the downloaded package with the following command:

sudo dnf install -y ./k9s_linux_amd64.rpm

Let's start!

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