For those who don't know https://headlamp.dev already exists and is in CNCF.
Just as a heads up to the author, some of the commits against Luxury Yacht aren’t attributed to a GitHub account because Git wasn’t configured to use an email that’s associated —
https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/commit/62953f68b94e55259...
From 62953f68b94e552596a149474c632c0ea0a05bf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Jeffers <john@jbook-fusionauth.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:07:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add linux troubleshooting infoAh thanks, I’ll figure out why that’s happening because it should be using my git global defaults.
edit: weird, it’s just the one latest commit, all the others are fine.
These days I just write specific TUIs for my infra. Claude can do it with Ratatui in no time. You can make it specific to your preferences. Like I press j to go to jobs. And hit l for logs that are then auto refreshed or whatever. Who knows what other people want. I just make for me and it rules. You can then mix infra and application handling in the same TUI. Press c for the per-customer infra selector. Not useful to anyone but people here.
Trivial to build.
Trivial to build something that is opinionated and custom to you?
BTW it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'
Author of the app here. That’s one of the reasons I picked the name. When I was trying to come up with a name for this thing, I didn’t want another “k” name, but I did want something that tied in with the nautical theme of kubernetes. Luxury Yacht ticked that box and the Monty Python connection was a sweet bonus.
The video is so much better... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kCPVZwaH7MQ
Interesting “built with these tools” to “useful in this way” ratio
This could be an vscode extension. No need for an full fledge desktop app.
You could say that about almost anything. There are plenty of people who dont use VSCode so it seems wise to make it a separate app.
Most VSCode extensions are pure slop, to the point where you’re almost certainly better off using any other option for tools where available.
And I don’t mean slop in the new “AI slop” sense of the word, but more “ostensibly supposed to do something specialized but in practice not particularly effective, well documented, or useful”. The entire extension ecosystem is hot garbage.
Hey there. I didn’t submit this post but I am the author of the app. I didn’t know about Headlamp when I started working on Luxury Yacht. I only discovered it a few weeks ago. Headlamp is great, and of course having CNCF’s backing means a lot.
I’m not trying to sell Luxury Yacht. It’s free to use. I’m not going to try to convince anyone to choose it over Headlamp, or any other tool. Of course I’m flattered if people like what I built, but that’s the extent of my investment.
I like Luxury Yacht better than Headlamp, but of course I do, because I built it to work exactly the way I want it to.
How does this compare to LENS? https://lenshq.io/
Always used the free and paid version and never heard of headlamp. Having a look its basically the same but for free.
Kubernetes Ops person here who opens HeadLamp at start of the day and leaves it open. Lens is much better than HeadLamp IMO but if you are cost sensitive, HeadLamp can probably get you 95% there.
I never really felt great about Lens. The interface and workflow just never resonated with me. No shade to the crew behind Lens, it’s purely subjective opinion, and I’m sure a lot of people would say I’m wrong.
I like Headlamp. It’s much closer to how I think these kinds of apps should work. Prior to starting work on Luxury Yacht, my favorite app in this category was https://infra.app/ but unfortunately that has seemingly been abandoned.
As far as how they compare… I think they’re all pretty comparable in terms of features. It’s just a question of finding the one that has the UI you like.
I did try to build some stuff into Luxury Yacht that I haven’t seen in other apps, though. There’s an object diff panel, where you can compare two objects (even in different clusters) and it will diff the YAML. I also have a json log parser, that will render json logs as a table so it’s much easier to read. Just small things like that.