Kube CLI visibility with Lens or OpenLens
Having a Kubernetes Dashboard to monitor how your pods are doing, edit deployments and configurations is key for fine tuning your setup. Here at Utopia we have grown fond of Lens and OpenLens (open source version).
Lens: https://k8slens.dev/
OpenLens can be installed via terminal: https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens
Homebrew:
Chocolately:
Because Openlens is community based, you do not get al the features of Lens out the box. One add-on we would recommend is the @alebcay/openlens-node-pod-menu extension for pod logs.
When Openlens is open go to File-> Extensions add @alebcay/openlens-node-pod-menu and press install. Restart Openlens and off you go. Github details here: https://github.com/alebcay/openlens-node-pod-menu Both of these pieces of software link right up to your config file and allow you directly connect to your cluster from your machine.
Very handy for scaling and adjusting configurations as well as monitoring pod and deployment health. One feature which is always great for fault finding is port forwarding with Kubernetes. This dashboard really makes it easy.
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