to open a proxy from the local machine to the cluster (see Accessing Clusters), using kubectl port-forward to forward a local port to a specific pod of the cluster (see Use Port Forwarding to Access Applications in a Cluster), to forward a local port to a specific pod of the cluster (see Use Port Forwarding to Access Applications in a Cluster), using a Kubernetes service of the type LoadBalancer to access an application of the cluster (see Use a Service to Access an Application in a Cluster). The Lens App uses the Typescript Kubernetes client to connect to a cluster, and since the Desktop app is clearly running outside a cluster, it uses a locally provided kubeconfig to connect to it.