Desktop Kubernetes client
The bright-eyed watcher over your clusters.
A hardened Kubernetes client for your desktop. Browse, watch, and operate every cluster from one fast native app. It stays read-first, so every change waits behind a deliberate confirm.
Windows or Linux? Other platforms
Free for 14 days, no key or card needed.
Apple Silicon and Intel · macOS 13 and later
Features
Dense with signal. Never noisy.
Everything a day of running clusters needs. See what's happening at a glance, then deal with the one thing that isn't.
Live, everywhere
Built-in resource kinds stream live, cluster-wide, into a warm cache; custom resources stream while their view is open. Tables update in place, with no refresh button and no polling lag.
Utilization at a glance
CPU and memory come straight from metrics.k8s.io as inline bars that turn red at 90%. Capacity meters go amber from 70% and red when a node is overcommitted.
History from Prometheus
CPU and memory over time for pods and workloads, read from your cluster's own Prometheus with your own credentials. Glauco finds Prometheus by itself, with no port-forward and no agent in the cluster.
A browser for your resources
Applications, Network, Config and Storage, each grouped, sortable, filterable and paginated. Column filters and quick presets, with a badge counting what's active.
Detail that goes deep
Every object opens to Overview, YAML and Events, with Logs and a Terminal for pods and workloads. Tail all pods at once, exec into a container, or read the live manifest in Monaco.
Helm, first-class
Releases are read straight from their Secrets, so browsing them needs no helm binary. See the resources each release manages and walk its history; roll back or uninstall with the helm CLI on your PATH.
Command palette
⌘K jumps anywhere: switch context, scope to a namespace, or open any resource kind, built-in or custom, in one keystroke.
Nodes & capacity
Every node with its roles, versions, conditions and taints. Toggle CPU and memory between Usage, Requests and Limits as a share of allocatable.
Custom resources
CRDs are discovered per context and reachable from the command palette. Open any custom kind into a generic live table with best-effort status.
Safety by design
Built to never surprise you against a real cluster.
Glauco is read-first by default. It's the app you can hand a new engineer and point straight at production.
- No middleman. No telemetry.
- Glauco talks straight to your clusters, with no server in between and no analytics. It contacts us only to check for updates and your license. Cluster data and credentials never leave your machine.
- Read-first, confirm-gated
- Every change asks first: scale, restart, cordon, drain, edit, delete, Helm rollback. Confirmation dialogs focus Cancel and show destructive actions in red, so a stray Enter never deletes anything.
- Sandboxed & hardened
- A locked-down Electron shell: context isolation on, node integration off, a strict CSP, and every IPC message validated at the boundary. The Kubernetes client only ever runs in the main process.
- Your kubeconfig, read-only
- Extra kubeconfigs are merged read-only through a native file picker. Glauco reads your contexts to connect and never writes to ~/.kube/config.
A closer look
Every screen, instrument-grade.
Packed with detail but easy on the eyes. Here's what a day in Glauco actually looks like.
Grouped, live resource tables
Applications, Network, Config and Storage. Sort, filter, and read inline CPU and memory bars while everything streams in place.
Take a closer look at your clusters.
Download Glauco for macOS, Windows or Linux and connect to any cluster your kubeconfig already knows: GKE, EKS, AKS, k3s, kind or on-prem.
- Free for 14 days, no key needed
- Works with your existing kubeconfig
After the trial, keep one cluster read-only for free, for personal, non-commercial use. For work, buy a license from €29$29 a year.
macOS 13 and later on Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows 10 and later, and Linux (.deb and .rpm), on x64. Updates are automatic on macOS and Windows, and come through apt and dnf on Linux.