Freelens is a Kubernetes IDE that provides a graphical interface for managing and monitoring Kubernetes clusters.
It simplifies cluster operations by offering:
- A dashboard with real-time cluster insights
- Support for multiple clusters
- Built-in terminal access to nodes and pods
- Visualization of workloads, networking, storage, and configurations
- Extension support to add custom functionality
Freelens is maintained by the community.
Note specific to Flatpak:
The application is sandboxed. It includes bundled kubectl and helm commands and uses ~/.kube/config file by default.
Flatpak adds wrapper for the aws, doctl, gke-gcloud-auth-plugin and kubelogin tools and runs them as a commands from the host system.
The terminal uses /bin/sh by default, but it can be switched to, for example, /bin/bash for sandboxed environment or /app/bin/host-spawn for a host environment.
You can use flatpak-override to give access to the filesystem f.e. if you're missing .minikube certificates. flatpak override --user --filesystem=~/.minikube app.freelens.Freelens.