Overview of Lens Desktop Kube#
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Lens Desktop Kube allows you to create a local Kubernetes cluster.
Attention
Before running Lens Desktop Kube, to avoid a port conflict, stop all local clusters such as Minikube, Docker Desktop, Rancher Desktop, and so on.
Prerequisites for Windows#
To run Lens Desktop Kube in Lens Desktop for Windows, make sure that:
- You are running Windows 10 version 2004 and higher (Build 19041 and higher) or Windows 11.
- WSL2 is installed. See Install Linux with WSL for detailed instructions.
- Hyper-V is installed and enabled both in BIOS and System Preferences. See Install Hyper-V on Windows 10 for detailed instructions.
- You are using an official Ubuntu distribution. See WSL Documentation: Install Linux on Windows with WSL.
Note
Lens Desktop Kube is not available for virtual machines deployed through the Parallels software.
Further reading#
The following documentation might help you to understand the concepts of WSL2 and Hyper-v: