A desktop Kubernetes client for people who run many clusters
Biebie Kube puts every cluster you look after in one window. Resource views stay live, logs and shells are one click away, and the clusters you must not break are marked as such.
Version 0.2.10 · DMG · 33.9 MB · Apple Silicon and Intel
Also available for Windows (x64)
- macOS 12 or later · Universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel
- Windows · 64-bit installer (x64)
What Biebie Kube is
A native application that connects straight from your machine to your clusters.
Most Kubernetes interfaces assume you look after one cluster, or a handful that all belong to the same organisation. That assumption breaks down quickly for consultants, managed service providers and platform teams who move between customer environments all day.
Biebie Kube starts from the opposite assumption. Clusters are grouped by the customer they belong to, credentials come from the kubeconfig files you already maintain, and nothing needs to be deployed into a cluster before you can use it.
What you can do with it
Everything below is in the application today.
Every cluster in one list
Clusters are grouped by customer, so a day that touches six different organisations does not mean six terminal windows and six context switches.
Your kubeconfigs, read in place
Existing kubeconfig files are read where they already live and imported automatically. Nothing is copied, rewritten or moved, so kubectl keeps working exactly as before.
Live resource views
Resource tables are backed by Kubernetes watches rather than polling. Pods change state in the list as they change state in the cluster, without a refresh button.
Around forty resource kinds
Workloads, networking, configuration, storage and RBAC are covered, and custom resource definitions from your own operators appear alongside the built-in kinds.
YAML editing with a safety net
View and edit manifests in a Monaco editor with Kubernetes syntax highlighting. Applies carry the resourceVersion you loaded, so a concurrent change is rejected instead of silently overwritten.
Logs, exec and port forwarding
Stream container logs, open an interactive shell in a running pod through a real terminal, and forward local ports to services without leaving the window.
Argo CD without a second tab
Browse Argo CD applications, check sync and health status, and trigger a sync. GitOps state lives next to the cluster it deploys to.
Source-versus-live diff
Compare what Git says a resource should be against what the cluster is actually running, so configuration drift is visible before it becomes an incident.
Connection diagnosis in layers
When a cluster will not connect, the failure is reported at the layer it happened — network reachability, TLS, authentication or authorisation — instead of one generic timeout.
Guardrails on production
Clusters marked as production require the resource name to be typed out before a destructive action runs. Deleting the wrong deployment takes deliberate effort.
Pod and node metrics
CPU and memory usage is read from metrics-server and shown next to the resources it belongs to, when the cluster has metrics-server installed.
A desktop application, not a dashboard
Biebie Kube runs on your machine and talks directly to your clusters. There is no server to deploy, no agent to install and no credentials leaving your laptop.
Who it is built for
The workflows that shaped the design.
Consultants and managed service teams
Keep one window open across every customer you support. Clusters stay grouped by organisation and production clusters are visibly marked.
Platform and SRE teams
Move between dev, staging and production clusters while investigating an issue, with live views, logs and exec available in the same place.
Teams running Argo CD
Check application sync status and compare Git against the live cluster during a rollout, without switching to a separate Argo CD interface.
Works with Biebie Access
Many customer clusters sit behind a VPN. Biebie Access keeps track of which connection and which login identity belongs to which customer, and the two applications talk to each other directly, so opening a cluster can bring up the access it needs.
Read about Biebie AccessSupported platforms
macOS 12 or later
Universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel
Windows
64-bit installer (x64)
A Linux build is not published yet. If Linux support matters to you, the GitHub repository is the best place to say so.
Latest release
Download for your platform
Frequently asked questions
Does Biebie Kube change my kubeconfig files?
No. Kubeconfig files are read from where they already are. Biebie Kube does not copy, rewrite or relocate them, so kubectl and any other tooling continue to behave exactly as before.
Which platforms can I install it on?
Biebie Kube runs on macOS 12 or later as a universal build for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and on 64-bit Windows through an installer. A published Linux build is not available yet.
Do my cluster credentials leave my machine?
No. Biebie Kube is a desktop application that connects directly from your computer to your clusters using your existing kubeconfig credentials. There is no Biebie backend service in the connection path.
Does it work with custom resource definitions?
Yes. Custom resources defined by operators installed in your cluster are discovered and listed alongside the built-in Kubernetes resource kinds.
How does it avoid overwriting someone else's changes?
When you apply an edited manifest, the request carries the resourceVersion of the object you loaded. If the resource changed in the cluster in the meantime, Kubernetes rejects the write rather than discarding the other change.
Do I need metrics-server for CPU and memory numbers?
Yes. Pod and node usage figures come from the Kubernetes metrics API. If metrics-server is not installed in a cluster, everything else still works and the usage columns are simply empty.
How much does Biebie Kube cost?
Biebie Kube is free to download. Installers for each release are published on GitHub and the application checks for new versions itself.
Get Biebie Kube
Free to download for macOS and Windows.
Version 0.2.10 · DMG · 33.9 MB · Apple Silicon and Intel
Also available for Windows (x64)