Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
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Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
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Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#2On January 26th, Mirantis made Lens closed source.
I personally found it to be a useful tool, as it provided a good overview of existing Kubernetes clusters and easy access to them. Since I used OpenLens, I did not notice the license change and the removal of the source code until now.
Would love to hear about alternatives or best practices for cluster management below.
Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
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Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#4Podman Desktop is a good alternative.
It now has a full Kubernetes GUI interface now, is open source (and forever will be), and the benefit is that you can manage your local containers too!
Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#5On January 26th, Mirantis made Lens closed source. I personally found it to be a useful tool, as it provided a good overview of existing Kubernetes clusters and easy access to them. Since I used OpenLens, I did not notice the license change and the removal of the source code until now. Would love to hear about alternatives or best practices for cluster management below.
Also interested in other tools. I don't mind working on the command line but Lens (and OpenLens later on) has been my tool of choice for keeping an eye and managing on our K8s stuff.
Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#6I personally use k9s in favor of Lens. Some don't like or can't use k9s but if you can its amazingly robust, feature packed and easy to use.
Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#7Nice commit message on the removal, “first draft of new readme”
https://github.com/lensapp/lens/commit/e1fc8869a9e0033fb2266...
Stuff like this is why its gets really hard to trust open source projects backed by a single company not in a foundation. Seems like we’ve entered into a spectrum where such open source projects not in a foundation are equivalent to shareware, except instead of forcing payment its relicensed non OSI source visible or closed to achieve the same.
Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#8Nice commit message on the removal, “first draft of new readme” https://github.com/lensapp/lens/commit/e1fc8869a9e0033fb2266... Stuff like this is why its gets really hard to trust open source projects backed by a single company not in a foundation. Seems like we’ve entered into a spectrum where such open source projects not in a foundation are equivalent to shareware, except instead of forcing payment its relicensed…
i saw that and thought that it was probably a top contender for "worst commit message of all time"
Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#9Nice commit message on the removal, “first draft of new readme” https://github.com/lensapp/lens/commit/e1fc8869a9e0033fb2266... Stuff like this is why its gets really hard to trust open source projects backed by a single company not in a foundation. Seems like we’ve entered into a spectrum where such open source projects not in a foundation are equivalent to shareware, except instead of forcing payment its relicensed…
I think the fair thing would be to pay each contributor for keeping their previous open source code contributions and if not they would be stealing from the FOSS community.
Re: Mirantis K8s Lens closed its source
#10On January 26th, Mirantis made Lens closed source. I personally found it to be a useful tool, as it provided a good overview of existing Kubernetes clusters and easy access to them. Since I used OpenLens, I did not notice the license change and the removal of the source code until now. Would love to hear about alternatives or best practices for cluster management below.
Are you specifically looking for a free Kubernetes GUI?
If you’re open to commercial options, have a look at what Aptakube (https://aptakube.com) can do.
One feature that sets it apart from other UIs is connecting to multiple clusters simultaneously and seeing all resources in a single table.
Disclaimer: I’m the author