Tech
May 11, 2023

Open Lens instead of Lens (IDE for K8S)

I use Open Lens.

It is an IDE for Kubernetes. I like it, because it is really useful.

You can download the OpenLens from this repo . The repo contains builds and you don't need to build it from a source code. Thanks you, Muhammed Kalkan!

Actually, the OpenLens is an open source version of the Lens and, unfortunately, it doesn't have several features that I liked in a vanilla Lens, such as:

  • Log pods
  • Pod shell
  • Attach to pod

The features was removed by maintainers and I had using the Open Lens without this features for a bit.

I recently found out that I can enable the features in the Open Lens using a special plugin.

May be the information will be helpful for you:

1. Open Open LensExtensions

2. Paste "@alebcay/openlens-node-pod-menu" (without quotes) to input, and tap to "Install" button.

3. After that plugin will be added

Troubleshooting:

I had a problem. This plugin had restarting indefinitely after installing. I forced to restart Open Lens and the problem was solved.