To get the ability to quickly pause and unpause PXC clusters running on Kubernetes using the k9s terminal GUI, place the following file at the configuration directory reported by `k9s info`.

plugin.yml

plugin:
  pxc_pause:
    shortCut: p
    confirm: true
    description: Pause cluster
    scopes:
    - perconaxtradbclusters
    command: kubectl
    background: false
    args:
    - --context
    - $CONTEXT
    - --namespace
    - $NAMESPACE
    - patch
    - $RESOURCE_NAME
    - $NAME
    - --type
    - merge
    - --patch
    - '{"spec": {"pause": false}}'
  pxc_resume:
    shortCut: r
    confirm: true
    description: Resume cluster
    scopes:
    - perconaxtradbclusters
    command: kubectl
    background: false
    args:
    - --context
    - $CONTEXT
    - --namespace
    - $NAMESPACE
    - patch
    - $RESOURCE_NAME
    - $NAME
    - --type
    - merge
    - --patch
    - '{"spec": {"pause": false}}'