What is Kite?

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

✨ Features

🎯 Modern User Experience

• 🌓 Multi-Theme Support - Dark/light/color themes with system preference detection
• 🔍 Advanced Search - Global search across all resources
• 🌐 Internationalization - Support for English and Chinese languages
• 📱 Responsive Design - Optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices

🏘️ Multi-Cluster Management

• 🔄 Seamless Cluster Switching - Switch between multiple Kubernetes clusters
• 📊 Per-Cluster Monitoring - Independent Prometheus configuration for each cluster
• ⚙️ Kubeconfig Integration - Automatic discovery of clusters from your kubeconfig file
• 🔐 Cluster Access Control - Fine-grained permissions for cluster access management

🔍 Comprehensive Resource Management

• 📋 Full Resource Coverage - Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVs, PVCs, Nodes, 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
• 🎨 Customizable Sidebar - Customize sidebar visibility and order, and add CRDs for quick access
• 🔌 Kube Proxy - Access pods or services directly through Kite, no more kubectl port-forward

📈 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/Node Terminal - Execute commands directly in pods/nodes through the browser
• 📈 Node Monitoring - Detailed node-level performance metrics and utilization
• 📊 Pod Monitoring - Individual pod resource usage and performance tracking

🔐 Security

• 🛡️ OAuth Integration - Supports OAuth management in the UI
• 🔒 Role-Based Access Control - Supports user permission management in the UI
• 👥 User Management - Comprehensive user management and role allocation in the UI

Getting Started

Ready to explore Kite? Check out the installation guide.