Unlock the Power of Kubernetes with Lens Desktop and KIND

Manage a KIND Kubernetes Cluster with Lens Desktop

Streamlining Kubernetes Cluster Management and Deployment with Lens Desktop and KIND

Manage a K8s cluster with Lens Desktop

1. Prerequisites

Install a supported version of Docker on a Linux host with, any supported Linux distribution including openSUSE, and at least 4GB of memory.

2. Install and configure a KIND cluster

The steps to install a Kubernetes KIND cluster can be found in the following article Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with KIND and KUBEADM.

Or, we can follow the Quick Start.

3. Install Lens Desktop

From https://k8slens.dev/ follow the instructions and install Lens Desktop.

For Ubuntu the steps are:

$ curl -fsSL https://downloads.k8slens.dev/keys/gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/lens-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/lens-archive-keyring.gpg] https://downloads.k8slens.dev/apt/debian stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lens.list > /dev/null
$ sudo apt…