Barney KubeKubernetes, without the 500 MB suit.

A native macOS client that reads your kubeconfig, keeps every list live and stays in tens of megabytes. Free, written in Swift.

If kubectl works, Barney works

Your kubeconfig as it is. Client certificates, tokens and the exec plugins behind EKS, GKE and AKS, with tokens cached until they expire.

Connecting to clusters

Lists open once and a watch keeps them current. Pods and nodes get live CPU and memory, and a badge the moment something goes unhealthy.

The workspace

Every object has a Related tab. A Deployment's real pods, the node they run on, the Services in front, the ConfigMaps and Secrets they mount.

Inspecting objects

A whole workload's pods in one stream, a color each. The previous log of a container that restarted, with the exit code that killed it.

Logs

Exec with a real terminal, copy files, forward ports, scale, restart, roll back, cordon and drain. Every change asks first.

Restart, scale and roll back

Secret values are hidden everywhere until you reveal them, one object at a time. TLS checks the cluster's own CA and the host name.

Security and privacy

No clusters in your kubeconfig yet? One of these adds one. Barney finds it the next time it looks.

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name <cluster>

gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster>

az aks get-credentials -g <group> -n <cluster>

doctl kubernetes cluster kubeconfig save <cluster>

kind create cluster

minikube start