Aptakube

About Aptakube

Aptakube is a desktop GUI client for managing Kubernetes clusters, built with Tauri and available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It connects directly to a cluster's API server, similarly to kubectl, and supports connecting to multiple clusters simultaneously in a single view. It requires no server-side component installed on the cluster and works with existing kubectl configurations without modifying them.

The application provides a workload overview that highlights failing pods, non-running deployments, undersized containers, warning events, and recent restarts. It includes an aggregated log viewer for streaming live and historical logs from multiple pods and containers at once, with filtering and download options. Other features include CPU and memory usage metrics (via metrics-server or Prometheus), one-click port forwarding, resource diffing across clusters or namespaces, viewing and editing resources in both human-friendly and YAML formats, and quick actions for tasks like restarting pods or scaling replicas.

Aptakube is aimed at engineers, DevOps practitioners, and SREs who manage Kubernetes clusters and want an alternative to CLI-only workflows or other GUI tools such as Lens or k9s. It works with any Kubernetes distribution, including GKE, EKS, AKS, OpenShift, Talos, and Rancher, and follows the EKS, AKS, and GKE release calendar for supported Kubernetes versions, generally covering the last five versions.

Key features

• Connect to and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters simultaneously
• Aggregated log viewer streaming live and historical logs from multiple pods/containers
• Pod and node CPU/Memory usage metrics via metrics-server or Prometheus
• One-click port forwarding from pods to local machine
• Resource diff to compare configurations across clusters or namespaces
• View, create, and modify resources in a human-friendly UI or directly as YAML

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