horus VS lens

I'm using the official Helm chart on an ARM k3s cluster (config here), it will pull the ARM image automatically.

K3s is great, I use it on all of my personal clusters (here and here). It's lightweight and very easy to manage.

Yes, I'm running my k3s cluster on the same instance type https://github.com/khuedoan/horus

Not saying it's the best way, just an idea, but I'm building a single node k3s cluster on Oracle Cloud free tier. Good enough to host some static sites and my mail server, still have plenty of resources left.

On the cloud (single node on a free VM, a lot simpler): https://github.com/khuedoan/horus

Lens

Generally I felt as if I was diving in the deepest of waters without the correct equipement and that was horrifying. Unfortunately to me, I had to dive even deeper before getting equiped with tools like ArgoCD, and k8slens. I had to start working with... HELM.

Indeed you can, with several "paid" features removed, like log tailing and pod shells. They deliberately hobbled the product. If you want to use Lens, my advice is pay for the supported version.

yes I know there is lens, but it does not allow me to see logs of multiple pods at same time and what is even more important it is not friendly for ephemeral clusters - in my case with help of kind I am recreating whole cluster each time from scratch

Let's wait for few seconds for the pods to become green, I am using Lens, it's awesome btw.

You probably don't need Rancher unless you need a GUI or manage multiple clusters, Lens or k9s might be a better fit for your use case.

`openlens` is now preferred over `Lens`, it has everything you need and none of the fluff that Lens wants to charge you for.