iPhone & iPad

A Kubernetes app for iPhone and iPad

Yes — several Kubernetes clients run on iPhone and iPad. KubeGlance is a native dashboard on the same Swift core as its Mac app: multi-cluster views of pods, workloads, logs and events, Flux and Argo CD, capacity and efficiency, alerts, widgets and Siri, with native EKS, GKE, AKS and OIDC sign-in. It is read-only by default. If you need to edit resources or open shells from the phone, look at the alternatives below.

Updated 25 September 2026

What KubeGlance does on the phone

The iPhone and iPad app is not a companion: it is the dashboard, with the same views as the Mac. Import a kubeconfig by file or paste, or sign in to Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS or an OIDC provider natively — cloud clusters authenticate through exec plugins on a desktop, and those cannot run on iOS, so KubeGlance performs the sign-in itself. Widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen show cluster health, recent releases and load, and “Check cluster health in KubeGlance” works in Siri and Shortcuts.

Read-only by design

KubeGlance watches, streams and inspects; it does not edit or delete. On a phone, where a mistyped tap is easy, that is deliberate. The alternatives below include clients that do edit, scale and open shells.

Other Kubernetes clients for iPhone and iPad

Each checked on its App Store listing or repository on 25 September 2026. Most of them edit and open shells, which KubeGlance does not.

• kubenav — Free, open source, with optional sponsorship; iPhone, iPad, visionOS and Android. Edits, deletes and scales; logs, shell and port-forward; AWS, Google and Azure; plugins for Argo CD, Flux and cert-manager.
• Nautik — Free with a Pro subscription; iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision and Watch. Multi-cluster, terminal, port-forward, Helm, YAML editing, Prometheus, widgets, and cloud and OIDC sign-in.
• Kubeterm — Subscription or lifetime purchase; iPhone, iPad and Mac. AI assistant; Helm, Argo CD and Flux; OIDC and cloud sign-in; create, delete and scale.
• Rune — One-time purchase; iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision. Exec, and EKS, AKS and GKE support; no cloud account and no telemetry.
• Ploigos — Free with Standard and Pro in-app purchases; requires iOS 26. Multi-cluster, token or mTLS kubeconfig, restart, logs and shell.

Questions

Is there a Kubernetes dashboard for iPhone?

Yes. KubeGlance is a native Kubernetes dashboard for iPhone and iPad on the same core as its Mac app, with multi-cluster views, logs, GitOps, capacity, alerts and widgets. Other iOS clients include kubenav, Nautik, Kubeterm, Rune and Ploigos.

Can I connect EKS or GKE from an iPhone?

Yes. KubeGlance signs in to Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS and OIDC providers natively, without the aws, gcloud or kubelogin exec plugins that cannot run on iOS.

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