# gimlet-io/capacitor

A general purpose UI for FluxCD.

Repository: https://github.com/gimlet-io/capacitor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gimlet-io-capacitor
Homepage: https://gimlet.io/capacitor-next
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: fluxcd, gitops, kubernetes
Last push: 2026-02-10T13:21:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 66, release rhythm 64, longevity 75
- inputs: {"age_days": 1052, "days_push": 204, "days_rel": 240, "gap_med": 5.0, "n_releases_24m": 29}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1181, forks 45 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:54.133884+00:00)

## What it is
Capacitor Next is a local-first web UI for FluxCD and Kubernetes, distributed as a single binary that serves a built-in webserver using your kubeconfig. It provides resource discovery, Flux resource trees, Kustomization diffing between cluster and git state, Helm history and rollback, logs, metrics, and keyboard-driven navigation—like k9s but in the browser.

## Use cases
- browse kubernetes resources with a ui instead of kubectl
- view fluxcd kustomization diffs between git and cluster state
- inspect helm release history and roll back deployments
- view pod logs and metrics in a browser dashboard
- manage multiple kubernetes clusters from one local tool
- give developers an argocd-like ui for a flux gitops setup

## When to choose
- you use FluxCD for gitops and want a UI comparable to ArgoCD's
- you prefer a lightweight single-binary local dashboard over hosting a full web dashboard
- you want k9s-style keyboard navigation in a browser
- you need multi-cluster visibility with RBAC respected

## When to avoid
- your team uses ArgoCD rather than FluxCD
- you need a fully hosted, always-on dashboard with team authentication out of the box (team self-hosting is still in beta)
- you only need raw kubectl scripting rather than a visual interface

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, developer-tools, gui, self-hosted
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing
- platform: windows, self-hosted, browser
- tags: fluxcd, gitops, kubernetes-dashboard, helm, k9s-alternative, argocd-ui-alternative, single-binary, multi-cluster, devops, containers, macos, linux, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- gimlet-io/capacitor (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.133884+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:25:10.762852+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gimlet-io/capacitor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.133884+00:00, sha a5bdaba87a44)
  - homepage: https://gimlet.io/capacitor-next (fetched 2026-08-29T12:31:56.405226+00:00, sha eb433695afec)
  - site_page: https://gimlet.io/capacitor-next/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T12:31:56.414053+00:00, sha 6072566923c3)
  - site_page: https://gimlet.io/capacitor-next/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T12:31:56.416034+00:00, sha c0b0ef50002e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.