Mirantis, the open cloud company, announced the company has acquired Lens – the Kubernetes integrated development environment (IDE) open source project from its authors, bringing multi-cluster management into the mainstream and greatly simplifying the experience for developers working with Kubernetes and cloud-native applications. This follows the Mirantis acquisition of the team behind the product in February.
.@MirantisIT Acquires #Lens, the World’s Most Popular #Kubernetes IDE, to Simplify App Development for Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Microsoft AKS, and #OnPremClouds
Available on GitHub under the MIT license, Lens has garnered widespread adoption since its launch as an open source project in March 2020. With a growing community of 35,000 users and 7,000 stargazers on GitHub, it has become one of the top trending open source projects in the cloud-native ecosystem. According to publicly available data, some of the largest companies in the world are using Lens to accelerate their Kubernetes efforts at scale, including Apple, Rakuten, Zendesk, TIM, and Adobe.
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Lens eliminates the Kubernetes complexity that has hindered mainstream developer adoption since its inception. The tool unlocks situational awareness and enables users to easily manage, develop, debug, monitor, and troubleshoot their workloads across multiple clusters in real time. It supports any certified Kubernetes distribution on any infrastructure, providing freedom of choice for hundreds of enterprises around the world. Lens is a standalone desktop application and works with MacOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
“Lens has enabled our developers to be more productive by accelerating and simplifying the Kubernetes development workflow,” said Matti Paksula, CTO at Supervisor.com. “The best feature in my opinion is that when I do kubectl get pod in the terminal, the dashboard you are looking at is always in the right context. Additionally, I don’t need to worry about working with stale information because everything is real time.”
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