For anyone managing a k8s cluster and are fatigued with memorizing and reciting kubectl commands should definitely take a look at k9s[0]. It provides a curses like interface for managing k8s which makes it really easy to operate and dive into issues when debugging. Move from grabbing logs for a pod to being at a terminal on the container and then back out to looking at or editing the yaml for the resource definition in only a few key presses.
I like Lens, as more of a GUIs fan, and very occasional k8s-er. It has saved me a lot of time.
Lens has been bought by another company, the same one that bought Docker, and they are not playing nice with the community.
Some people have forked it to remove the newly added trackers, the forced login, and the remote execution of unknown code, but I sadly guess that it will become a corporate nightmare and the forks will not be popular enough to really take over the development.
Which fork do you recommend?
You have a few OpenLens and one LibreLens and so far they only remove the newly added controversial features.