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- Pick the texture SolKube is painted with. Settings and setup offer five accent styles for the window chrome, the glow in setup and the fills under charts: None, Grainy, Dithered, Halftone and Hatched. Grainy is the default. If you had turned the grain off, you start on None.
- Ask an agent about your cluster. Agents runs the coding agent you already pay for, such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Grok Build, signed in as you. It can look around the cluster for you, and every change it suggests waits for you to say yes. Setup walks you through connecting one. Claude Code needs Node.js 22 or later on your Mac.
- Hear SolKube as you work. Picking a tab, opening a dialog, switching clusters and a change landing or failing each have a short sound, and Agents chimes when it finishes or needs you. Settings › General › Sound sets them to Off, Quiet, Medium or Loud.
- Hear new Warning events. Turn on Settings › General › Sound › Cluster events to hear a cue for each new Warning in the active cluster. The same reason stays quiet for the Repeat after interval (30 seconds by default), so a crash loop doesn't spam you.
- Try SolKube free for 14 days. The trial starts the first time you open SolKube, and Settings › License shows how many days are left.
- Activate a license key. Enter your key in Settings › License. To use a seat on another Mac, deactivate this one there first.
- Take a node out for maintenance. A node's details have Cordon, Uncordon and Drain. Drain asks first, then moves the node's pods off it without breaking the limits you set for how many can be down at once.
- See what each pod and node is using. The Pods and Nodes tables show live CPU and memory, and nodes show how full they are.
- Read what happened to an object. Every object's details end with its latest events, with warnings in amber.
- Every cluster opens on a live dashboard. See CPU, memory, pods and nodes at a glance, with how they moved over the last few minutes, which workloads and namespaces are busiest, which pods need attention and the latest events. It updates every five seconds without flicker.
- A friendlier first run. Setup opens with a welcome, shows which clouds are already connected, and lists the clusters it found in your kubeconfig.
- Debug a pod without changing it. Debug adds a temporary helper container that can see the pod's processes and opens its shell in a tab.
- Copy files in and out of a container. Copy files downloads a file or folder from a container, or uploads one into it.
- Open a shell on a node. A node's details have Shell, and SolKube cleans up after itself when you close the tab.
- Act on many objects at once. Select rows with a checkbox, Command-click or Shift-click, then restart, scale or delete them together. Each action asks first.
- Undo a bad rollout. Deployments, StatefulSets and DaemonSets have History: every revision, what rolling back would change, and Roll back.
- Follow a whole workload's logs. Logs on a workload follows all of its pods at once, each line marked with its pod, and you can save what you see to a file.
- Spot a sick cluster from across the room. Each cluster on the hot bar has a health dot: green when all is well, amber when something is waiting, and a slow red pulse when pods are failing or the cluster can't be reached. Hover it to see why.
- Do anything from the keyboard. Command-K opens a command palette to switch clusters, open a list, restart or scale a workload, or open a pod's logs or shell.
- See where the CPU goes. The dashboard maps CPU use by namespace, and a tile opens that namespace's pods.
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- Half the memory, a sixth of the idle CPU. SolKube now draws with each system's own controls, AppKit on macOS and GTK on Linux. On a MacBook Air it rests at about 25 MB instead of 50 MB, uses a quarter of the memory after a minute of work, and opens its window just as fast. Everything you had, from your tabs to the Liquid Glass tooltips, carries over.
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- Settings dropdowns show their value again. Each dropdown in Settings shows what it is set to.
- Control keys reach the pod shell on Linux. While a pod shell has focus, SolKube's own shortcuts move to Ctrl+Shift, so Ctrl+W, Ctrl+D and the rest go to the shell.
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- Settings has a search box that finds any setting.
- Your license keeps working offline, and SolKube checks it at most once a day.
- Updates your license doesn't cover are skipped, and the SolKube menu offers to renew.
- Icons are sharper and consistent, and AWS, Azure and Google Cloud show their own logos.
- A cluster's tile can carry the logo of the platform it runs on, from Kubernetes and k3s to Rancher, Red Hat, DigitalOcean and Docker.
- Tables have status filters, a compact or comfortable density, and columns you can reorder and hide, remembered for each kind.
- Dashboard numbers roll to their new values like an odometer.
- Every screen shares the same buttons, fields, cards and lists, and destructive actions confirm with a red button.
- The cluster sidebar shows an icon for each group, with its entries indented under it.
- On macOS 26 and later the active cluster sits on Liquid Glass in the hot bar.
- Buttons, switches and selections use SolKube's sun orange.