On January 26th, Mirantis made Lens closed source.
I personally found it to be a useful tool, as it provided a good overview of existing Kubernetes clusters and easy access to them. Since I used OpenLens, I did not notice the license change and the removal of the source code until now.<p>Would love to hear about alternatives or best practices for cluster management below.
Podman Desktop is a good alternative.<p>It now has a full Kubernetes GUI interface now, is open source (and forever will be), and the benefit is that you can manage your local containers too!<p><a href="https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.8" rel="nofollow">https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.8</a>
Nice commit message on the removal, “first draft of new readme”<p><a href="https://github.com/lensapp/lens/commit/e1fc8869a9e0033fb22665a990e07a6b72756630">https://github.com/lensapp/lens/commit/e1fc8869a9e0033fb2266...</a><p>Stuff like this is why its gets really hard to trust open source projects backed by a single company not in a foundation. Seems like we’ve entered into a spectrum where such open source projects not in a foundation are equivalent to shareware, except instead of forcing payment its relicensed non OSI source visible or closed to achieve the same.
We have been working on an alternative project for several months, and will open its source on April 22nd. I truly believe this project will keep open source forever, it will be a project backed by CNCF Foundation, hope you can give a try after we open its source.