lens/README.md

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).

Development

Prerequisites: Nodejs v12, make, yarn

• make init - initial compilation, installing deps, etc.
• make dev - builds and starts the app
• make test - run tests

Development (advanced)

Allows faster separately re-run some of involved processes:

1. yarn dev:main compiles electron's main process and watch files
2. yarn dev:renderer:vue compiles electron's renderer vue-part
3. yarn dev:renderer:react compiles electron's renderer react-part
4. yarn dev-run runs app in dev-mode and restarts when electron's main process file has changed

Alternatively to compile both render parts in single command use yarn dev:renderer

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lensapp/lens.