Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters
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nixgeek
25 minutes ago
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Just as a heads up to the author, some of the commits against Luxury Yacht aren’t attributed to a GitHub account because Git wasn’t configured to use an email that’s associated —

https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/commit/62953f68b94e55259...

  From 62953f68b94e552596a149474c632c0ea0a05bf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
  From: John Jeffers <john@jbook-fusionauth.localdomain>
  Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:07:51 -0700
  Subject: [PATCH] add linux troubleshooting info
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johnj-hn
22 minutes ago
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Ah thanks, I’ll figure out why that’s happening because it should be using my git global defaults.

edit: weird, it’s just the one latest commit, all the others are fine.

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caniszczyk
2 hours ago
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For those who don't know https://headlamp.dev already exists and is in CNCF.
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johnj-hn
41 minutes ago
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Hey there. I didn’t submit this post but I am the author of the app. I didn’t know about Headlamp when I started working on Luxury Yacht. I only discovered it a few weeks ago. Headlamp is great, and of course having CNCF’s backing means a lot.

I’m not trying to sell Luxury Yacht. It’s free to use. I’m not going to try to convince anyone to choose it over Headlamp, or any other tool. Of course I’m flattered if people like what I built, but that’s the extent of my investment.

I like Luxury Yacht better than Headlamp, but of course I do, because I built it to work exactly the way I want it to.

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aiiotnoodle
1 hour ago
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How does this compare to LENS? https://lenshq.io/

Always used the free and paid version and never heard of headlamp. Having a look its basically the same but for free.

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gedy
1 hour ago
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BTW it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'

(http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Series_2/43.htm)

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johnj-hn
39 minutes ago
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Author of the app here. That’s one of the reasons I picked the name. When I was trying to come up with a name for this thing, I didn’t want another “k” name, but I did want something that tied in with the nautical theme of kubernetes. Luxury Yacht ticked that box and the Monty Python connection was a sweet bonus.
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latchkey
35 minutes ago
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The video is so much better... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kCPVZwaH7MQ
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deedubaya
2 hours ago
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Interesting “built with these tools” to “useful in this way” ratio
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nthypes
1 hour ago
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This could be an vscode extension. No need for an full fledge desktop app.
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Milner08
58 minutes ago
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You could say that about almost anything. There are plenty of people who dont use VSCode so it seems wise to make it a separate app.
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