r/kunobi

This release focuses on removing everyday friction so you can stay in flow.

On Windows, Kunobi is now fully signed. No more SmartScreen warnings or “Unknown publisher” prompts during install or first launch. It just works the way you expect.

Logs are now easier to work with when they’re structured. If your pods emit JSON, you can filter by fields instead of scanning raw lines. Start typing with a dot and Kunobi will surface available fields, operators, and values.

Editing ConfigMaps is now direct. Update key-value data inline, with validation and safe merge-patch behavior. Your changes persist even if you switch tabs.

The drilldown view is becoming more context-aware. Actions adapt to the resource you’re looking at, including Helm and Flux where relevant.

You can now define per-context environment overrides for exec-based auth plugins like aws-iam-authenticator, with validation built in.

Improvements include Sources naming, persistent log history, scrollable sidebar tabs, and auto-updating Git history.

Fixes cover keyboard behavior in terminal, isolated filters for Events, OAuth on Linux, and stability after hibernation.

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Most cluster views still feel like a black box. You connect, you see resources, but the actual context behind that cluster is buried somewhere in kubeconfig or not visible at all.

This release makes that context explicit.

The cluster detail panel has been redesigned to match how you already navigate Kubernetes in Kunobi. You can now see your server URL, cluster name, and user directly, without digging through files. And if you need the full picture, there’s a YAML tab with your kubeconfig ready to inspect or copy.

We also cleaned up a subtle but painful issue with RBAC on EKS and webhook-based clusters. When permissions come back incomplete, tools tend to hide resources entirely. Now Kunobi shows what’s actually there and surfaces real permission errors instead of silently filtering things out.

On top of that, we tightened navigation and search so results are faster to act on, and fixed a few cases where sidebar state would drift across tabs.

Small changes, but they remove a lot of guesswork when you’re trying to understand what’s really happening in a cluster.

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This release focuses on removing that constant back-and-forth between your UI and the terminal.

You can now restart workloads, drain nodes, trigger jobs, suspend Flux resources, or roll back deployments directly inside Kunobi. Same flow, no context switching, no breaking your focus.

We also added a built-in log viewer that actually behaves like a terminal. Search, regex, follow mode, Vim navigation. No need to pipe logs or open another tool just to read what’s happening.

And for debugging, pod metrics now come with history and trends. CPU, memory, network, all in one place, with automatic detection of Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or similar backends.

On top of that, we made reconnecting to clusters instant, added Git history inside the app, and unified filtering across all views so you don’t keep relearning the UI every time you switch context.

This one is less about features and more about flow. Fewer tool hops. More control where you already are.

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