Lens K8s unable to connect to terminal in Window's 10

Question

There is no terminal coming in the Lens. Lens terminal just showing connecting...

Answer 1

Root Cause

Bydefault lens uses the powershell but Lens need wsl shell. By changing the shell to wsl this issue can be solve also we have to add the path for wsl in lens application.

In the backend Lens call the WSL shell. But Lens unable to find it.

Solution

We can solve this issue by setting up the system environment variables.

1. Go to the Preferences and set Terminal as wsl.exe.
2. Set environment for wsl.exe. Go to System Variable and add the PATH.