Lens is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.
- Amazing usability and end user experience
- Multi cluster management; Support for hundreds of clusters
- Standalone application; No need to install anything in-cluster
- Real-time cluster state visualization
- Resource utilization charts and trends with history powered by built-in Prometheus
- Terminal access to nodes and containers
- Performance optimized to handle massive clusters (tested with a cluster running 25k pods)
- Full support for Kubernetes RBAC
Download a pre-built package from the releases page. Lens can be also installed via snapcraft (Linux only).
Alternatively on Mac:
brew cask install lens
Prerequisites: Nodejs v12, make, yarn
make init- initial compilation, installing deps, etc.make dev- builds and starts the appmake test- run tests
Allows faster separately re-run some of involved processes:
yarn dev:maincompiles electron's main process and watch filesyarn dev:renderer:vuecompiles electron's renderer vue-partyarn dev:renderer:reactcompiles electron's renderer react-partyarn dev-runruns app in dev-mode and restarts when electron's main process file has changed
Alternatively to compile both render parts in single command use yarn dev:renderer
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lensapp/lens.