komodorio / helm-dashboard

A simplified way of working with Helm. Description _Helm Dashboard_ is an **open-source project** which offers a UI-driven way to view the installed Helm charts, see their revision history and corresponding k8s resources. It also allows users to perform simple actions such as rolling back to a revision or upgrading to a newer version. This project is part of Komodor's vision to help Kubernetes users to navigate and troubleshoot their clusters. It is important to note that Helm Dashboard is **NOT** an official project by the helm team. Key capabilities of the tool: • See all installed charts and their revision history • See manifest diff of the past revisions • Browse k8s resources resulting from the chart • Easy rollback or upgrade version with a clear and easy manifest diff • Integration with popular problem scanners • Easy switch between multiple clusters • Can be used locally, or installed into Kubernetes cluster • Does not require Helm or Kubectl installed All the features of the tool can be discovered via our features overview page. Installation Standalone Binary Since version 1.0, the recommended install method is to just use standalone binary. It does not require Helm or kubectl to be installed. Download the appropriate release package for your platform, unpack it and just run binary from it. See below section for some more CLI parameters to use. Using Helm plugin manager To install dashboard as Helm plugin, simply run Helm command: To update the plugin to the latest version, run: To uninstall, run: To use the plugin, your machine needs to have working and also commands. Helm version 3.4.0+ is required. After installing, start the UI by running: The command above will launch the local Web server and will open the UI in a new browser tab. The command will hang waiting for you to terminate it in command-line or web UI. You can see the list of available command-line flags by running . By default, the web server is only available locally. You can change that by specifying environment variable to the desired value. For example, would bind to all IPv4 addresses or would be all IPv6 addresses. This can also be specified using flag , for example or . > Precedence order: flag > env > default value If your port 8080 is busy, you can specify a different port to use via command-line flag. If you need to limit the operations to a specific namespace, please use in your command-line. You can specify multiple namespaces, separated by commas. If you don't want the browser tab to automatically open, add flag in your command-line. If you want to increase the logging verbosity and see all the debug info, use the flag. > Disclaimer: For the sake of improving the project quality, there is user analytics collected by the tool. You can disable this collecting with option. The collection is done via DataDog RUM and Heap Analytics. Only the anonymous data is collected, no sensitive information is used. Deploying Helm Dashboard on Kubernetes The official helm chart is available here Support Channels We have two main channels for supporting the Helm Dashboard users: Slack community for general conversations and GitHub issues for real bugs. Contributing Kindly read our Contributing Guide to learn and understand about our development process, how to propose bug fixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to Helm Dashboard. Contributors Local Dev Testing Prerequisites, binaries installed and operational: • Golang • Node.js There is a need to build frontend and then backend as a series of commands, run: Linux Or just that will do everything inside. Then, you can run from directory to work on frontend with Vite hot reload. Windows You can just run the or binary directly. To install, checkout the source code and run from source dir: A local installation of the plugin just creates a symlink, so making the changes and rebuilding the binary would not require to reinstall a plugin. To use the plugin, run in your terminal: Then, use the web UI. Development Snapshots In our GitHub actions, we attach the built binaries as build artifacts, you can download and test it fully assembled. Also, we upload tag for Docker image upon every build of branch, you can make our Helm chart to use that image by providing values: