Environment Variables

Kite supports several environment variables by default to change the default values of some configuration items.

• KITE_USERNAME: Set the initial administrator username. Can be created through the initialization page

• KITE_PASSWORD: Set the initial administrator password. Can be created through the initialization page

• KUBECONFIG: Kubernetes configuration file path, default value is ~/.kube/config. When kite has no configured clusters, it will discover and import clusters from this path by default. Can import clusters through the initialization page

• ANONYMOUS_USER_ENABLED: Enable anonymous user access, default value is false. When enabled, all access will no longer require authentication and will have the highest permissions by default.

• JWT_SECRET: Secret key used for signing and verifying JWT

• KITE_ENCRYPT_KEY: Secret key used for encrypting sensitive data, such as user passwords, OAuth clientSecret, kubeconfig, etc.

• HOST: Used for generating OAuth 2.0 authorization callback addresses, default will be obtained from request headers. If you find the result not as expected, you can manually configure this environment variable.

• NODE_TERMINAL_IMAGE: Docker image used for generating Node Terminal Agent.

• ENABLE_ANALYTICS: Enable data analytics functionality, default value is false. When enabled, Kite will collect limited data to help improve the product.

• PORT: Port on which Kite runs, default value is 8080.