Aptakube is a lightweight, modern and multi-cluster GUI client for Kubernetes. Manage your cluster from your desktop. Try it free now!

Le Hoang Tam (Tom)

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Aptakube is a modern, lightweight Kubernetes GUI that enables users to view, compare, and manage workloads across multiple clusters simultaneously. It provides features such as an aggregated log viewer, resource diff, quick actions, port forwarding, and human-friendly resource views. Designed to work seamlessly with existing configurations, Aptakube offers enhanced usability and resource management without requiring additional setup on clusters.

Aptakube · Kubernetes GUI

This is why I use k9s for a UI instead.
The perpetual license is good for a year, and you know k8s evolves fast so using it out of date won’t last long.
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While being a terminal-everyting guy, I don’t even use TUIs (k9s etc), wtf is that pricing, who pays for this kind of bs? If you want to see some color, use kubecolor, its completely free :)