Kubeapps

Kubeapps is a set of tools written by Bitnami to super-charge your Kubernetes cluster with:

• Your own application dashboard, allowing you to deploy Kubernetes-ready applications into your cluster with a single click.
• Kubeless, a Kubernetes-native Serverless Framework, compatible with serverless.com.
• SealedSecrets, a way to encrypt a Secret into a SealedSecret, which is safe to store...even for a public repository.

Quickstart

Kubeapps assumes a working Kubernetes cluster (v1.8+) and kubectl installed and configured to talk to your Kubernetes cluster. Kubeapps binaries are available for Linux, OS X and Windows, and Kubeapps has been tested with minikube, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Azure Container Service (AKS). Kubeapps works on RBAC-enabled clusters and this configuration is encouraged for a more secure install.

On GKE, you must either be an "Owner" or have the "Container Engine Admin" role in order to install Kubeapps.

The simplest way to try Kubeapps is to deploy it with the Kubeapps Installer on minikube. Assuming you are using Linux or OS X, run the following commands to download and install the Kubeapps Installer binary:

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubeapps/kubeapps/releases/latest | grep -i $(uname -s) | grep browser_download_url | cut -d '"' -f 4 | wget -i -
sudo mv kubeapps-$(uname -s| tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kubeapps
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubeapps
kubeapps up
kubeapps dashboard

These commands will deploy Kubeapps in your cluster and launch a browser with the Kubeapps dashboard.

Access to the dashboard requires authorization which is handled by Kubernetes API server. The dashboard only acts as a proxy and passes all auth information to it. In case of forbidden access corresponding warnings will be displayed in Dashboard.

The following commands create a ServiceAccount and ClusterRoleBinding named kubeapps-operator which will enable the dashboard to authenticate and manage resources on the Kubernetes cluster:

kubectl create serviceaccount kubeapps-operator
kubectl create clusterrolebinding kubeapps-operator --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=default:kubeapps-operator

Use the following command to reveal the authorization token that should be used to authenticate the Kubeapps dashboard with the Kubernetes API:

kubectl get secret $(kubectl get serviceaccount kubeapps-operator -o jsonpath='{.secrets[].name}') -o jsonpath='{.data.token}' | base64 --decode

To remove Kubeapps from your cluster, simply run:

kubeapps down

To delete the kubeapps-operator ServiceAccount and ClusterRoleBinding,

kubectl delete clusterrolebinding kubeapps-operator
kubectl delete serviceaccount kubeapps-operator

Installation

Get the latest release of Kubeapps Installer on the Github releases page.

Alternatively, when you have configured a proper Go environment (refer to the first two steps of Build from Source section), the latest Kubeapps Installer can be get-able from source:

go get github.com/kubeapps/kubeapps

Build from Source

The Kubeapps Installer is a CLI tool written in Go that will deploy the Kubeapps components into your cluster. You can build the latest Kubeapps Installer from source by following the steps below:

• Visit the Go website, download the most recent binary distribution of Go and install it following the official instructions.

  The remainder of this section assumes that Go is installed in /usr/local/go. Update the paths in subsequent commands if you used a different location.

• Set the Go environment variables:

  export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
  export GOPATH=/usr/local/go
  export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH

• Create a working directory for the project:

  working_dir=$GOPATH/src/github.com/kubeapps/
  mkdir -p $working_dir

• Clone the Kubeapps source repository:

  cd $working_dir
  git clone https://github.com/kubeapps/kubeapps

• Build the Kubeapps binary and move it to a location in your path:

  cd kubeapps
  make binary
  cp kubeapps /usr/local

Next Steps

Use the Kubeapps Dashboard to easily manage the deployments created by Helm in your cluster and to manage your Kubeless functions, or look under the hood to see what's included in Kubeapps.

In case of difficulties installing Kubeapps, find more detailed installation instructions.

For a more detailed and step-by-step introduction to Kubeapps, read our introductory walkthrough.

Useful Resources

• Walkthrough for first-time users
• Detailed installation instructions
• Kubeapps Dashboard documentation
• Kubeapps components