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Navigator#

With Navigator, you can connect to your local and team space clusters. It allows navigating between cluster views and monitoring state of clusters.

Right-click on different items opens a context menu where you can choose different actions such as connecting to a cluster, opening the preferences or cluster settings menus, and other options.

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Clusters are organized into two sections:

  • Kubernetes Clusters

    Contains AWS EKS clusters and clusters from local kubeconfig files.

  • Teamwork

    Contains clusters to which you have access through Lens Teamwork.

Use Up and Down buttons to move through the sections. Use Right to open and Left to close the section. You can also use Tab and Shift+Tab for navigation.

Resize the Navigator panel by dragging it from the right.

The Drill Into mode allows opening a section of views in Navigator. To open the section, you can either click the arrow button to the right from the section header. You can use the drop-down menu on top of Navigator to move from one level of the tree to another.

The GIF below demonstrates the Drill Into mode:

showing Drill Into

You can open a tab with the view in two modes:

  • Preview mode

    Opens by a single-click (Enter) and reuses the existing tab when navigating to other views.

  • Fixed tab mode

    Opens by a double click (Shift+Enter) and the tab is associated with the particular view. Navigating to other views opens a new tab.