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Chillar Anand
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Headlamp - k8s Lens open source alternative

headlamp - Open source Kubernetes Lens alternator

Since Lens is not open source, I tried out monokle, octant, k9s, and headlamp1. Among them, headlamp UI & features are closest to Lens.

Headlamp

Headlamp is CNCF sandbox project that provides cross-platform desktop application to manage Kubernetes clusters. It auto-detects clusters and provides cluster wide resource usage by default.

It can also be installed inside the cluster and can be accessed using a web browser. This is useful when we want to access the cluster from a mobile device.

$ helm repo add headlamp https://headlamp-k8s.github.io/headlamp/

$ helm install headlamp headlamp/headlamp

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Lets port-forward the service & copy the token to access it.

$ kubectl create token headlamp

# we can do this via headlamp UI as well
$ kubectl port-forward service/headlamp 8080:80

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Now, we can access the headlamp UI at http://localhost:8080.

headlamp - Open source Kubernetes Lens alternator

Conclusion

If you are looking for an open source alternative to Lens, headlamp is a good choice. It provides a similar UI & features as Lens and it is accessible via mobile devices as well.


  1. https://headlamp.dev/

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