[aiiotnoodle]

How does this compare to LENS? https://lenshq.io/

Always used the free and paid version and never heard of headlamp. Having a look its basically the same but for free.

[johnj-hn]

I never really felt great about Lens. The interface and workflow just never resonated with me. No shade to the crew behind Lens, it’s purely subjective opinion, and I’m sure a lot of people would say I’m wrong.

I like Headlamp. It’s much closer to how I think these kinds of apps should work. Prior to starting work on Luxury Yacht, my favorite app in this category was https://infra.app/ but unfortunately that has seemingly been abandoned.

As far as how they compare… I think they’re all pretty comparable in terms of features. It’s just a question of finding the one that has the UI you like.

I did try to build some stuff into Luxury Yacht that I haven’t seen in other apps, though. There’s an object diff panel, where you can compare two objects (even in different clusters) and it will diff the YAML. I also have a json log parser, that will render json logs as a table so it’s much easier to read. Just small things like that.

[stackskipton]

Kubernetes Ops person here who opens HeadLamp at start of the day and leaves it open. Lens is much better than HeadLamp IMO but if you are cost sensitive, HeadLamp can probably get you 95% there.

[p1anecrazy]

Can you elaborate a little, please? Also, do you use these tools for managed K8s or standard one?

[vitaliyf]

There is also a https://github.com/freelensapp/freelens fork.