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24 alternatives to I quit my job to build a Kubernetes GUI with Rust
About a year ago I was working on a project with mirrored Kubernetes clusters deployed across various regions. Constantly switching contexts was a big pain for me and I badly needed something more practical to work with multiple clusters, ideally simultaneously. At that time everyone was talking about Rust and I really wanted to try it out. I then found Tauri, a framework to build GUI apps with Rust + JavaScript. I was sold. I learned Rust and built the app I always wanted to use. Fast, lightweight and with the ability to connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. Fast forward to today,…
Aptakube is a lightweight Kubernetes management application built with Rust that enables users to connect to and manage multiple clusters simultaneously through a graphical interface. Designed for developers and DevOps… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I quit my job to build a Kubernetes GUI with Rust launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2017 · play-with-k8s.com · its alternatives →
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Get boilerplates & ready made apps to clone, modify & deploy
2017 · hasura.io · its alternatives →
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Kerno▲132Hey HN! Anibal, Sean, Vlad, Maxi and Karim here we're the co-founders of Kerno (https://www.kerno.io/). We're building a zero-hassle tool to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their services in a way that makes sense. No complex rollouts, no custom infra, no tons of instrumentation, no sidecars… none of that! Just a minimum effort, out-of-the box, highly contextualized and interactive experience so you and your team can focus on shipping! We basically scan your cluster resources, build usable abstractions on top of all the kubernetes craziness, identify monitor your…
Dec 2025 · kerno.io · its alternatives →
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🦭 Distributed log streaming engine built from first principles - nubskr/walrus
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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KDash▲76A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust
2021 · kdash.cli.rs · its alternatives →
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I’m building Nautilus, a cross-platform desktop manager for Linux servers. While there are many SSH clients out there, I wanted something that combined a high-level dashboard, a full SFTP explorer with an integrated editor, and specialized tools like a Cron job manager and Process monitor—all in a modern, lightweight desktop package. Key Technical Highlights: Tauri + Node.JS Sidecar: We use Tauri for the native windowing and Rust security, but the heavy SSH/SFTP lifting is done via a Node.js sidecar (using ssh2). This allowed us to leverage a very mature ecosystem while keeping the…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · usekrucible.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing Sphere - A lightweight, sandboxed compute runtime written in Rust. - introducing-sphere.md
2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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kubectl port-forward manager and reverse tunnel (ngrok-like) for exposing local services publicly, with TLS termination, HTTP traffic inspection, UDP forwarding, multi-hop proxy routing through k8s clusters, stateful config via filesystem or git - GUI and TUI available - hcavarsan/kftray
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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kubenav is the navigator for your Kubernetes clusters right in your pocket. - kubenav/kubenav
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Local-First Kubernetes successor for Developers. - doseidotio/dosei
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tauri▲4Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have embarked on a journey of rewriting Kubernetes into a single binary in Rust, with everything embedded. Architecturally, instead of etcd, it has options to use SQLite or PostgreSQL as a backend. I am trying to make it compatible with Kubernetes APIs, and kubectl should just work out of the box. This is not 100% ready yet, but I just wanted to show the first look. It is almost 90% AI-generated. Claude code with Opus 4.7 is being used here. It should just work out of the box on macOS with Docker as runtime.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is the newest update to my CLI tool to quickly create cheap Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner Cloud. This update adds autoscaling support, so clusters created with this tool now can behave similar to managed Kubernetes clusters, which I think is awesome. I received a lot of feedback since the last update so I hope anyone interested could try the new version as well. Thanks a lot for the feedback so far! The repo: https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s
2023 · its alternatives →
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it won't let me put url for some reason, here it is: https://github.com/octopii-rs/octopii
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I really like local apps for their simplicity and privacy and hate paying Saas bills and I wanted a way to start automating my life with AI so I started building Anything. Anything is built on Tauri so the front end is React and the "backend" is Rust. It's 100% local & 100% doesn't ask you to spin up docker to use. Another core goal of the app is to get away from "package bloat" you see in other general purpose AI oss projects where they have a package.json that is 300 lines long ( more on that later. ) Oh btw I suck at Rust! I learned Rust while building this so the code is _not…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Toy project running on Google Cloud Run. 200K req/month. $0.5/month. with Rust
2024 · kuberian.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! A few months ago, EntICOnc shared a blog post I wrote about using Rust from the perspective of a Python developer [0] which was well received, with some positive as well as mixed feedback. One thing I didn’t foresee would happen, is this little post getting a lot of attention, especially from the data engineering crowd which I consider myself a part of. Looking at the feedback, it was clear that there are some resources missing for a specific use case for which I think Rust is a perfect candidate: Data Engineering. Currently, Data Engineering is dominated by languages like Java, Scala…
2023 · datawithrust.com · its alternatives →
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Over the last year or so I've been building a DB GUI that has all the features I've wanted in a db client. It's built using Tauri (so react for the ui and Rust for all the db interactions, LSP and multiplayer networking). I've been using it as my primary db client for a while but it just recently got to a point where it would make sense for other people to try it so I've [open sourced](https://github.com/getpeek/peek) it and slopped together a website for it. What sets Peek apart from most other solutions is that all queries and results are laid out on an infinite canvas…
Jun 2026 · getpeek.dev · its alternatives →
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