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Loupe for Kubernetes
The free, open-source desktop client for Kubernetes
Loupe is a free, open-source Kubernetes desktop app built in Rust. It reads your kubeconfig and gives you live lists, logs across every replica, shells, port-forwards, Helm, CRDs and diffed YAML edits, with read-only guards on production. Apache-2.0.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Varun, and I built Loupe.
Why it exists: I spend my days in Kubernetes. I wanted a desktop client that was fast, open source for good, and honest about what it's doing. It should show you the same thing kubectl would, surface errors instead of hiding them, and make it hard to break production by accident. Loupe is Apache-2.0 and built in Rust, and it will stay free.
What it does:
🔍 Browse everything. Pods, workloads, networking, storage, Helm releases and any CRD. Lists stay live through watches, and the columns match kubectl get because the API server does the printing.
📜 Logs that work. Stream, filter with regex, keep grep -C context, or merge every replica of a Deployment into one colour-coded view that follows the rollout.
🖥️ Shell and port-forward. Open a real terminal in any container. Port-forwards survive rollouts because the target pod is resolved on each connection.
✏️ Edit safely. Every apply shows a diff first. If someone changed the object underneath you, the write is rejected rather than silently overwriting their change.
🛡️ Guard production. Mark a context read-only, or require typing the context name before any write. This is enforced in Rust, not just hidden in the UI.
🚨 See what's broken. A Problems view shows everything failing across the cluster, and ⌘K finds any object, kind or action.
What it doesn't do: Loupe holds no credentials of its own. It uses the kubeconfig kubectl already uses, so RBAC decides what you see. If a request is denied, Loupe shows you the error instead of an empty table. There's no account, no telemetry and no sign-up.
Get it:
brew install --cask kryptonhq/tap/loupe
Builds for macOS (signed and notarised), Linux (AppImage, .deb, GPG-signed) and Windows are on GitHub: https://github.com/kryptonhq/loupe
I'd love your feedback on:
• What still sends you back to the terminal?
• What's the one feature that would make Loupe your daily driver?
• Anything that feels slow on a large cluster?
Stars, issues and PRs are all welcome. Contributions use the DCO, not a CLA, so you keep your copyright. I'll be around all day to answer questions 🙏
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About Loupe for Kubernetes on Product Hunt
“The free, open-source desktop client for Kubernetes”
Loupe for Kubernetes was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #109 on the daily leaderboard. Loupe is a free, open-source Kubernetes desktop app built in Rust. It reads your kubeconfig and gives you live lists, logs across every replica, shells, port-forwards, Helm, CRDs and diffed YAML edits, with read-only guards on production. Apache-2.0.
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