After working with the popular and still growing container management platform, I’ve had the opportunity to use several different management tools. Here’s my current favorites.
OpenLens
A GUI and open source K8s management tool. Works well with a small number of clusters (10 clusters can be added/pinned to the “hotbar”).
This tool has the ability to connect to pods and view logs, but needs a extension installed. My process to add is to press command+shift+e (Mac) or control-shift-e (Windows) to get the extension UI and add the @alebcay/openlens-node-pod-menu to the list and click install. (note: I usually have to close OpenLens and re-open)
With the extension installed, I’m able to use context options:
K9s
K9s is a shell-base UI that can provide some great resource utilization info:
I’ve been using these tools for awhile now and really find them helpful.
I hope you find this information useful.
Happy building!
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