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We’ll begin with one of the most popular alternatives out there, Lens. The Lens team describes their tool as “The Kubernetes IDE for Development,” and it is a very powerful tool. Lens was originally proprietary, but Mirantis acquired it in August of 2020 and open sourced the code. It’s an Electron-based app that you run locally on your computer. It allows read and write access to your Kubernetes clusters.
Extensions is a newer feature in Lens that allows you to write custom code to extend Lens, or to re-use extensions that other people have built. Right now there are a few extensions shared on GitHub. Hopefully more will emerge. Kubecost just released an extension for tracking your cost metrics in Lens.
In my next post in the series I’ll be looking at Headlamp, another popular UI for Kubernetes, and later we’ll look at the official Kubernetes Dashboard. Stay tuned.