Freelens

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, glab 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.