I never really felt great about Lens. The interface and workflow just never resonated with me. No shade to the crew behind Lens, it’s purely subjective opinion, and I’m sure a lot of people would say I’m wrong.

I like Headlamp. It’s much closer to how I think these kinds of apps should work. Prior to starting work on Luxury Yacht, my favorite app in this category was https://infra.app/ but unfortunately that has seemingly been abandoned.

As far as how they compare… I think they’re all pretty comparable in terms of features. It’s just a question of finding the one that has the UI you like.

I did try to build some stuff into Luxury Yacht that I haven’t seen in other apps, though. There’s an object diff panel, where you can compare two objects (even in different clusters) and it will diff the YAML. I also have a json log parser, that will render json logs as a table so it’s much easier to read. Just small things like that.