Description
Review of Mirantis Lens Desktop.
Mirantis Lens is an open source software application that can be used to better visualize your cluster. Prior to this I had been using only kubectl to manage my cluster.
The Good
- You can see your system resources and kubernetes resources.
- When you restart a deployment in the app, it does a rolling restart.
- You can install helm charts directly from the user interface.
The Bad
- If you make a change to a helm deployment, I feel it should be backed by github (even in a free version). Consider adding a git commit feature, or users could end up with code in their cluster that is not in git. Config drift could become more of a problem over time.
- It can be buggy, for example, I couldn’t get v6.1.12 to load my clusters in Windows 10 after I updated to it.
