Toggle to disable checking clusters on startup (windows).

[greenaar]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the impact that the lack of the feature requested is creating.

When starting on windows, EVERY cluster is checked. this opens N+1 terminal windows to run the companion kubectl command. This happens EVERY time you go back to the main window. Every new window also steals keyboard/mouse focus.

Describe the solution you'd like

Give me the option to turn that behaviour off. I wouldn't mind some granularity, but i'd take 'don't check until i select a cluster'

What users will benefit from this feature?

Windows users certainly will benefit. I have 9 clusters in my kubeconfig, and switching back to the main page is a visual assault.

Are you able to implement this feature?

Sadly not.

Additional context

Alternatively, if you can suppress opening terminal windows with each command run, that would also serve.

[joaquimrocha]

@greenaar , thanks. Indeed, this is in our plans at #2165 .
Can you confirm one thing for me: how is the authentication in your clusters? I guess you are using the exec plugin of kube config? Would it work if we connected automatically to all clusters/contexts except those with that exec plugin?
In any case, I think a global setting like this would work:
Automatically connect to clusters: [ ] All [ ] None [ ] Only these: _____

[greenaar]

@joaquimrocha the problematic clusters are all in EKS, so there's a whole authentication layer (2fa) that needs to occur before they are available. As a rule, I don't want to check them until I've authorized, which may not be at the point I start this application (I have another cluster which doesn't need any additional authentication which i use more often).

Your proposed solution would be ideal - in my case I'd probably always default it to 'None', and then connect to them as needed and intentionally. I would also suggest that be the default behavior, as there are a number of reasons to not automatically query clusters - regardless, having that option would be welcome and appreciated.

Thanks for taking this seriously. :)