Lens has been a frustrating daily driver for a while — the bundled Chromium runtime, business logic running in the renderer, the open-source build getting pared back release after release. After enough papercuts I started building a replacement that puts the engine in Rust and uses the system webview. It’s now usable enough to share. FerrisScope is a desktop Kubernetes IDE built on Tauri 2 + kube-rs + React. Apache-2.0. GitHub: https://github.com/dzcorp/FerrisScope Stack: Tauri 2 (system webview), Rust 1.94+, Tokio, kube-rs, React 19 + TypeScript + Vite, Monaco, xterm.js, rusqlite with FTS5, russh for the SSH transport. unsafe_code is forbidden across the workspace; rustls only. Linux (deb / rpm / AppImage / AUR), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows. Screenshots and install instructions are in the repo README. Happy to hear what’s missing, what’s broken, and what you’d design differently. Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. as well , this person and/or - 50+ resource kinds with reflector-backed tables (Workloads, Network, Config, Storage, RBAC, Cluster, Helm, CRDs).- Detail panels with cross-kind navigation (owner refs, node, service-account, mounted ConfigMaps and Secrets).- Live ANSI-coloured logs, embedded terminal (xterm.js + portable-pty), Monaco YAML editor.- Port-forwards that survive pod restarts and persist across app restarts when pinned.- Metrics from metrics-server plus per-PVC volume usage via kubelet stats summary. Prometheus-API queries via apiserver proxy with vendor detection.- Helm install/upgrade/uninstall, node cordon and drain, rollout-style workload restart.- Inline Server-Side Apply for ConfigMap, Secret, ResourceQuota, LimitRange, plus labels and annotations on opted-in kinds. Stable field manager, conflict surfacing with explicit force-takeover.- Multi-source kubeconfigs (default file, extra files, folder scans, SSH-mounted remote configs), all live-watched.- Global cluster search via SQLite FTS5, hooked into the command palette.- Dynamic CRD discovery so every custom resource is browseable out of the box. Gateway API gets first-class detail panels; Argo, Flux, Cert-Manager, Istio, Tekton are next on the list.- Optional in-app chat agent with a Kubernetes tool catalogue (list/get/delete pods, scale, tail logs, query Prometheus, helm, SSA apply, etc.) gated by per-call approval. Bring your own provider key.