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Kitematic vs Lens: What are the differences?

Kitematic: The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac. Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X; Lens: Open-source IDE to control your Kubernetes clusters. It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.

Kitematic and Lens can be categorized as "Container" tools.

Some of the features offered by Kitematic are:

  • Mac App with GUI for Docker
  • Create images from any folder with a Dockerfile in it
  • Configure environment variables

On the other hand, Lens provides the following key features:

  • Multi Cluster Management
  • Multiple Workspaces
  • Built-In Prometheus Stats

Kitematic and Lens are both open source tools. Kitematic with 11.5K GitHub stars and 1.4K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Lens with 3.32K GitHub stars and 139 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Kitematic
Pros of Lens
  • 8
    I like it because it sucks
  • 3
    No command line, Docker in one app, gui, easy to set up
  • 2
    Good for first timer
  • 1
    Easy to get started
  • 4
    Keep track of cluster changes
  • 2
    Easy management of multiple clusters
  • 2
    Open Source
  • 1
    Local installation, not SaaS

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What is Kitematic?

Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X

What is Lens?

It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.

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