Kite - Modern Kubernetes Dashboard

A modern, intuitive Kubernetes dashboard

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Kite is a lightweight, modern Kubernetes dashboard that provides an intuitive interface for managing and monitoring your Kubernetes clusters. It offers real-time metrics, comprehensive resource management, multi-cluster support, and a beautiful user experience.

Comprehensive cluster overview with real-time metrics and resource statistics

✨ Features

🎯 Modern User Experience

• 🌓 Multi-Theme Support - Dark/light/color themes with system preference detection
• 🔍 Advanced Search - Global search with across all resources

🏘️ Multi-Cluster Management

• 🔄 Seamless Cluster Switching - Switch between multiple Kubernetes clusters with a single click
• 📊 Per-Cluster Monitoring - Independent Prometheus configuration for each cluster
• ⚙️ Kubeconfig Integration - Automatic discovery of clusters from your kubeconfig file

🔍 Comprehensive Resource Management

• 📋 Full Resource Coverage - Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVs, PVCs, and more
• 📄 Live YAML Editing - Built-in Monaco editor with syntax highlighting and validation
• 📊 Detailed Resource Views - In-depth information with containers, volumes, events, and conditions
• 🔗 Resource Relationships - Visualize connections between related resources (e.g., Deployment → Pods)
• ⚙️ Resource Operations - Create, update, delete, scale, and restart resources directly from the UI
• 🔄 Custom Resources - Full support for CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions)
• 🏷️ Quick Image Tag Selector - Easily select and change container image tags based on Docker and container registry APIs

📈 Monitoring & Observability

• 📊 Real-time Metrics - CPU, memory, and network usage charts powered by Prometheus
• 📋 Cluster Overview - Comprehensive cluster health and resource statistics
• 📝 Live Logs - Stream pod logs in real-time with filtering and search capabilities
• 💻 Web Terminal - Execute commands directly in pods through the browser

🔐 Authentication

• 🛡️ OAuth Integration - Support for GitHub and custom OAuth providers
• 🔑 Username/Password - Simple authentication using environment variables
• 🔒 Role Based Access Control - Fine-grained access control for users and groups

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🚀 Quick Start

For detailed instructions, please refer to the documentation.

Docker

To run Kite using Docker, you can use the pre-built image:

NOTE: example role config all users has viewer perminsion

See Roles Configuration for more details on configuring roles and permissions.

# download example roles config
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zxh326/kite/refs/heads/main/docs/roles.yaml
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -v ./roles.yaml:/config/roles.yaml -v ~/.kube/config:/home/nonroot/.kube/config ghcr.io/zxh326/kite:latest

Deploy in Kubernetes

Using Helm (Recommended)

1. Add Helm repository

   helm repo add kite https://zxh326.github.io/kite
   helm repo update

2. Install with default values

   helm install kite kite/kite -n kube-system

Using kubectl

1. Apply deployment manifests

   kubectl apply -f deploy/install.yaml
   # or install it online
   kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zxh326/kite/refs/heads/main/deploy/install.yaml

2. Access via port-forward

   kubectl port-forward -n kube-system svc/kite 8080:80

Build from Source

📋 Prerequisites

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/zxh326/kite.git
   cd kite

2. Build the project

   make deps
   make build

3. Run the server

   make run

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🔍 Troubleshooting

For troubleshooting, please refer to the documentation.