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.