K8sman
A Native Kubernetes IDE
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Hi HN, k8sman is a native lighter-weight Kubernetes IDE.It’s a Flutter GUI on top of a Go backend that works with client-go and your existing kubeconfig. Nothing installed in the cluster and no telemetry whatsoever.Just some of the features I think are unique:- Low footprint (~ 50% RSS compared to Lens on the same cluster)- Inspector panels for 30+ kinds that explain what's wrong (a crash-looping pod shows its exit code, termination message and a link to the previous instance's logs)- Customisable views with a compact query language (status!=Running restarts>3 age<1h), with sortable, resizable and reorderable columns that persist per kind- Streamed logs with searching, pod terminals, alerts, port-forwards that persist across pod restarts, and local shell with kubectl that follows the cluster you look at- Helm history with diffs between revisions, rollbacks and dry-run upgrades- Read-only mode per context (enabled by default for everything that looks like prod)- Integrated with Argo CD, Prometheus, Trivy image scanning (but works just as well without!)Builds for macOS, Windows and Linux. Apache 2.0.
HN · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 66%) · 0 views
Niche: developer desktop client applications · 73 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes A Kubernetes GUI is a client over the client-go API and kubeconfig, so a solo developer can build the Flutter UI and Go backend with AI help, though the Flutter desktop packaging and resource-watch performance take some effort.
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Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.
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