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Kubernetes,kept in focus.

Lightship is a focused desktop client for operators who want the whole cluster close—without the cockpit overload.

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macOSWindowsLinuxBring your kubeconfig

Live cluster view

Pods across every namespace, in one place.

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Lightship displaying a live inventory of Kubernetes pods across namespaces

Everything in reach

One calm surface for daily cluster work.

Inventory, detail, signal, and action stay connected to the resource you are working on.

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Context stays with the resource.

Move from pod health to metadata, YAML, logs, events, and actions without losing the thing you came to investigate.

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Lightship pod details with resource usage, status, metadata, and recent events
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Follow the signal live.

Stream logs across pods, filter noisy fields, and open a container terminal without leaving the operational flow.

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Lightship streaming structured logs from several Kubernetes pods
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Lightship integrated cluster terminal
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Powerful actions. Deliberate controls.

Forward services, edit manifests, and scale workloads with validation, protected-resource checks, and explicit confirmations.

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Lightship dialog for starting a local port forward to a Kubernetes service
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The edges of Kubernetes belong here too.

Review Helm history, inspect access control, and browse custom resources without changing tools.

PodsDeploymentsNodesNamespacesNetworkingConfigStorageRBACHelmCustom resources
Lightship Helm release history with deployment revisions

Helm release history

Lightship custom resources browser

Custom resources

Lightship access control and service accounts view

Access control

One surface

The whole cluster stays close.

Move across resources and namespaces without assembling a browser full of dashboards.

Keyboard ready

Built for practiced hands.

Search, navigate, and act from a compact interface that keeps routine work moving.

Locally accountable

Know what changed.

Review and export an activity history of cluster mutations from your own machine.

Run it from source

Your cluster. Your credentials. Your machine.

Lightship uses the contexts and permissions from your existing kubeconfig. Saved credentials are reduced per cluster and encrypted through your operating system's secure storage.

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terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/pintlehq/lightship.git
$ cd lightship
$ pnpm install
$ pnpm dev

✓ Lightship is ready
Node 20.19+ / 22.12+pnpmkubectl for terminals

From Pintle

Tools that make complex systems feel close.

Lightship is our first release: a focused desktop interface for the Kubernetes work that happens every day.

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