Native desktop tool for Kubernetes and GitOps. Built on Tauri, not Electron.

Kunobi is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters. It reads your kubeconfig, connects to your clusters, and gives you a GUI for the stuff you'd normally do with kubectl or k9s.

Multi-cluster management with keyboard shortcuts. A resource browser with virtual scrolling for large clusters. Split-pane terminals with auto-reconnect. A YAML editor with K8s-aware validation. Flux CD flow graph visualization. Built-in KIND cluster creation for testing locally without touching your real infrastructure.

The whole thing runs natively on your OS. No bundled Chromium, no Electron, no Node.js runtime. Install size is around 30MB, idles at ~100MB of RAM.

Download from kunobi.ninja/download. Available for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

brew tap kunobi-ninja/kunobi  # If not already added
brew install --cask kunobi

The cask is maintained at kunobi-ninja/homebrew-kunobi.

choco install kunobi

The package is maintained at kunobi-ninja/chocolatey-kunobi.

winget install kunobi-ninja.kunobi

The package is maintained at microsoft/winget-pkgs. Manifest PRs are submitted automatically from the kunobi-ninja/winget-pkgs fork.

Kunobi publishes .deb packages to a self-hosted APT repository. Two channels are available:

Stable releases are automatically promoted to the unstable channel, so unstable users always receive stable updates too.

# Import the GPG signing key
curl -fsSL https://r2.kunobi.ninja/apt/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/kunobi.gpg

# Add the repository (choose one)

# Stable channel (recommended)
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kunobi.gpg] https://r2.kunobi.ninja/apt stable main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kunobi.list

# OR Unstable channel (pre-releases)
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kunobi.gpg] https://r2.kunobi.ninja/apt unstable main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kunobi.list

sudo apt update
sudo apt install kunobi

Future updates are delivered through the standard apt upgrade flow.

aqua can install Kunobi (macOS arm64, Linux x64) from the aqua-registry:

aqua init                       # if not already initialized
aqua g -i kunobi-ninja/kunobi
aqua i

mise can also install and manage Kunobi versions (macOS arm64, Linux x64) through aqua-registry:

mise use aqua:kunobi-ninja/kunobi

Kunobi is registered in the aqua registry (aqua:kunobi-ninja/kunobi), so it can be used directly by mise.

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Source-available. See LICENSE for details.