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KubeStacks follows semantic versioning: a fix is a patch release, anything new a minor one, and a change that breaks how people use it a major one. Every release, with its installers and checksums, is on GitHub. The full record is in CHANGELOG.md.
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In your cluster
1.2.0

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KubeStacks in your cluster

KubeStacks now also runs in a cluster, as a dashboard for it that your team opens in a browser. It’s the same app, with each person signing in and seeing and changing what their own RBAC allows. Nobody installs anything, and a link to any page (a pod, its logs, a release) can be shared.
  • A container image and a Helm chart. ghcr.io/kubestacks/kubestacks for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64, installed with oci://ghcr.io/kubestacks/charts/kubestacks.
  • Three ways to sign in. With a token the cluster accepts, with single sign-on (OpenID Connect), or through an authenticating proxy.
  • Your own permissions, always. With single sign-on, KubeStacks impersonates people, or, when the API server trusts the provider itself, passes their own tokens on and renews them.
Get started with Run it in your cluster. Release notes
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Project
1.1.1

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A home of its own

KubeStacks has moved to its own organization on GitHub, KubeStacks/KubeStacks. The Help menu links there, and new versions come from there.Release notes
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Desktop app
1.1.0

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Automatic updates

  • KubeStacks updates itself. New versions download in the background and install when you restart or quit, with a notice when one is ready.
  • Help → Check for Updates… looks right away, and Help → Check for Updates Automatically turns the background checks off.
  • Help → Sponsor KubeStacks… opens the project’s GitHub Sponsors page.
Release notes
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Desktop app
1.0.0

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The first version

A Kubernetes app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

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Seeing what’s going on

  • Overview with node, pod, workload and warning health, CPU and memory against capacity, per-node usage, and what needs attention.
  • Workloads of every kind in one list, with status, ready pods, autoscaler ranges and usage, and tables for 19 resource kinds with health, sorting, filters, label selectors and virtual scrolling.
  • A detail panel with kind-specific facts, containers, conditions, related pods, events, logs and YAML. Secret values stay hidden until revealed.
  • Custom resources and every other kind, found through API discovery, with views for cert-manager, Argo CD and Rollouts, Flux, Gateway API, Karpenter, KEDA, External Secrets, the Prometheus operator, CloudNativePG, Istio, Velero and Crossplane, and your own.
  • Logs streamed as they’re written, merged across a workload’s pods, with search and filters.
  • Usage history from Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics, with a Metrics page and a Metrics tab on pods, workloads and nodes.
  • Helm releases, read from where Helm keeps them, with values, resources, notes and diffs between revisions.

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Changing things

  • Actions to scale, restart, change images, roll back, pause and resume rollouts, run CronJobs, suspend and resume, cordon, uncordon and drain, evict, force-delete, change autoscaler ranges, expand volumes, and edit labels and YAML.
  • Shells, debug containers and port forwards.
  • Helm upgrades and installs, reviewed as a server-side dry run first, and rollbacks and uninstalls, all with your own helm.
  • Bulk actions with progress per object and a retry for failures, and create from YAML with templates.
  • Guard rails: permission checks, the kubectl command in every dialog, typed confirmation for risky deletes, undo, an activity log and read-only mode.

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Around the app

  • A command palette, keyboard shortcuts for every view, and light and dark themes.
  • Calm errors: banners when a cluster stops responding, last data kept on screen, and error pages with details to copy or report.
Release notes