The latest articles on DEV Community by Yury Zhelezko (@zhey). https://dev.to/zhey https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3918885%2F67c1ca0f-8432-447e-a949-4b623500a849.jpg https://dev.to/zhey en Yury Zhelezko Thu, 07 May 2026 23:49:27 +0000 https://dev.to/zhey/ferrisscope-open-source-desktop-ide-for-kubernetes-42p https://dev.to/zhey/ferrisscope-open-source-desktop-ide-for-kubernetes-42p <p>Lens has been a frustrating daily driver for a while — the bundled Chromium runtime, business logic running in the renderer, the open-source build getting pared back release after release. After enough papercuts I started building a replacement that puts the engine in Rust and uses the system webview. It’s now usable enough to share.</p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F6pfbwp1ofsabfcqrro0c.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F6pfbwp1ofsabfcqrro0c.png" alt=" " width="800" height="545"></a></p> <p>FerrisScope is a desktop Kubernetes IDE built on Tauri 2 + kube-rs + React. Apache-2.0.</p> <p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/dzcorp/FerrisScope" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/dzcorp/FerrisScope</a></p> <p>What works today:</p> <ul> <li>50+ resource kinds with reflector-backed tables (Workloads, Network, Config, Storage, RBAC, Cluster, Helm, CRDs).</li> <li>Detail panels with cross-kind navigation (owner refs, node, service-account, mounted ConfigMaps and Secrets).</li> <li>Live ANSI-coloured logs, embedded terminal (xterm.js + portable-pty), Monaco YAML editor.</li> <li>Port-forwards that survive pod restarts and persist across app restarts when pinned.</li> <li>Metrics from metrics-server plus per-PVC volume usage via kubelet stats summary. Prometheus-API queries via apiserver proxy with vendor detection.</li> <li>Helm install/upgrade/uninstall, node cordon and drain, rollout-style workload restart.</li> <li>Inline Server-Side Apply for ConfigMap, Secret, ResourceQuota, LimitRange, plus labels and annotations on opted-in kinds. Stable field manager, conflict surfacing with explicit force-takeover.</li> <li>Multi-source kubeconfigs (default file, extra files, folder scans, SSH-mounted remote configs), all live-watched.</li> <li>Global cluster search via SQLite FTS5, hooked into the command palette.</li> <li>Dynamic CRD discovery so every custom resource is browseable out of the box. Gateway API gets first-class detail panels; Argo, Flux, Cert-Manager, Istio, Tekton are next on the list.</li> <li>Optional in-app chat agent with a Kubernetes tool catalogue (list/get/delete pods, scale, tail logs, query Prometheus, helm, SSA apply, etc.) gated by per-call approval. Bring your own provider key.</li> </ul> <p>Stack: Tauri 2 (system webview), Rust 1.94+, Tokio, kube-rs, React 19 + TypeScript + Vite, Monaco, xterm.js, rusqlite with FTS5, russh for the SSH transport. unsafe_code is forbidden across the workspace; rustls only.</p> <p>Linux (deb / rpm / AppImage / AUR), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows.</p> <p>Screenshots and install instructions are in the repo README.</p> <p>Happy to hear what’s missing, what’s broken, and what you’d design differently.</p> ai kubernetes aiops devops