✳Native macOS✳9 MB download✳kubectl-grade auth100% CORTEX LABS ENERGY ↗
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Big little superpowers.
13 ways to make your day easier. Yes, we got a little carried away.
13GOOD IDEAS IN ONE PRODUCT
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Obsessively lightweight
A 9 MB download that idles in tens of megabytes — where Electron-based cluster tools eat 500 MB to a full gigabyte. It stays fast on a laptop with a dozen tabs open.
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⌘SUPERPOWER / 02
If kubectl works, Barney works
Reads ~/.kube/config and authenticates like the CLI: client certs, tokens, and exec plugins for EKS, GKE, and AKS — re-authing on its own when cloud tokens expire, so long sessions never break.
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✳SUPERPOWER / 03
Follow the graph
Every object has a Related tab: a Deployment’s actual pods, the node a pod runs on, the Services in front of it, the ConfigMaps and Secrets it mounts, an Ingress’s backends. Kubernetes records these links from one side only — this walks the other direction, and every row is clickable.
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And a few more tricks.
Go on. Open one.
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One screen for what’s broken
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The Issues view lists every unhealthy pod and NotReady node across every namespace, with its reason and where it’s running. Click one to jump straight to it.
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Logs that match how you debug
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A whole workload’s pods merged into one stream, a color and a name each. The previous log of a container that restarted, labelled with the exit code that killed it. Server-side timestamps, and save to a file.
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Search everywhere, instantly
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⌘K searches every kind, every namespace, all at once — no cluster open, it brings up the picker and focuses the filter instead of doing nothing.
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Live, never polled
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Watch streams keep every grid current, CPU/memory columns update from metrics-server, logs follow in real time, and events feed per object or cluster-wide.
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A real terminal, in-app
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Exec into any container with a full TTY — colors, cursor apps, resize — plus attach mode and binary-safe file upload/download.
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Secrets stay masked
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Values are hidden by default everywhere they're shown — overview, copy, edit — with an explicit Reveal you control per object.
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Operate, not just observe
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Restart pods, scale workloads from a stepper, delete with confirmation, and edit YAML inline with kubectl-style apply — diff what changed before you commit it.
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Cordon, drain & node management
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Cordon or uncordon a node, or drain it — evicting pods with a live progress sheet that keeps DaemonSets and mirror pods put and retries past PodDisruptionBudgets, exactly like kubectl drain. Cordoned nodes wear a badge.
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Every action, everywhere
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Hover any row for a full actions menu mirroring the detail header — forward, scale, edit, restart, cordon, drain, delete — plus an explicit pod Delete that tells you whether a controller will recreate it.
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Know which cluster is which
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Pin your favorite clusters so they float to the top, environment badges (prod/staging/hml…) on cards and tabs, provider chips, a live apiserver ping, and sortable columns by name, status, CPU, memory, or age.
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The whole story, for the curious.
A closer look at what makes Barney Kube tick.
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Barney Kube is a native macOS Kubernetes client that does what Lens does in a fraction of the memory. It reads your kubeconfig and authenticates exactly like kubectl — client certs, tokens, and exec plugins for EKS, GKE, and AKS, re-authing automatically when cloud tokens age out — and talks to your clusters over a secure, verified connection. Open clusters as tabs and work with 19 resource kinds plus every CRD on the cluster: walk the graph from a Deployment to its actual pods to the node they run on, see everything unhealthy across every namespace in one list, stream a whole workload’s logs at once, open a real terminal in any container, port-forward, edit YAML and apply, restart, scale, and delete — everything updates the instant it changes on the cluster. Speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
02 / LET’S MAKE THIS OFFICIAL
Are we your type?
A few practical details. No awkward first-date questions.
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THE COMPATIBILITY CHECK
A little space. A lot of potential.
For macOS. Made to feel right at home.
SMALL LAB BIG CARE
Runs on
macOS 26 or later
Price
Free
Download
9 MB
Works with
Any cluster your kubeconfig reaches — EKS, GKE, AKS, local
Resources
19 built-in kinds, plus every CRD on the cluster
Updates
Automatic, in the background
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YOUR NEXT FAVORITE TOOL IS RIGHT HERE.
Your cluster deserves a wingman.
All that Kubernetes energy. A remarkably small download.
Barney Kubev0.3.0
