Kontena Lens

Kontena Lens is an IDE for Kubernetes ... from the product documentation:

Lens is the most powerful IDE for people who need to deal with Kubernetes clusters on a daily basis. Ensure your clusters are properly setup and configured. Enjoy increased visibility, real time statistics, log streams and hands-on troubleshooting capabilities. With Lens, you can work with your clusters more easily and fast, radically improving productivity and the speed of business.

Note that this is functionally a replacement for the k8dash dashboard, but it operates as a desktop application instead of as a pod within the cluster being monitored.

Installation

Kontena Lens is installed via 'snap' on Linux. These instructions are excerpted from https://snapcraft.io/install/kontena-lens

Enable snapd

First install/enable snapd if it isn't already active.

CentOS/Fedora

Snap is available for CentOS 7.6+, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository.

sudo yum install snapd

Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket may need to be enabled:

sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket

To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:

sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

Debian

Debian is more straightforward:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install core

Install Lens

To install Lens, simply use the following command:

sudo snap install kontena-lens --classic

Configuration

When started, Lens will ask for a kubernetes config file -- either a file on the local system (e.g. ~/.kube/config) or allows you to paste a config file from another system.

It appears that it expects Prometheus to be installed to get performance data ... will have to research that ...