Lens | The Kubernetes IDE
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.
What makes Lens special?
- 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
Installation
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
Development
Prerequisites: Nodejs v12, make, yarn
make init
- initial compilation, installing deps, etc.make dev
- builds and starts the appmake test
- run tests
Development (advanced)
Allows for faster separate re-runs of some of the more involved processes:
yarn dev:main
compiles electron's main process app partyarn dev:renderer
compiles electron's renderer app partyarn dev:extension-types
compile declaration types for@k8slens/extensions
yarn dev-run
runs app in dev-mode and auto-restart when main process file has changed
Development (documentation)
Run a local instance of mkdocs serve
in a docker container for developing the Lens Documentation.
Prerequisites: docker, yarn
yarn mkdocs-serve-local
- local build and serve of mkdocs with auto update enabled
Go to localhost:8000
RTFM recommended list:
Developer's - TypeScript (front-end/back-end)
- ReactJS (front-end, ui)
- MobX (app-state-management, back-end/front-end)
- ElectronJS (chrome/node)
- NodeJS (api docs)
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lensapp/lens.