What is Kite?

Kite is a lightweight, modern Kubernetes dashboard that unifies real-time observability, multi-cluster and resource management, enterprise-grade user governance (OAuth, RBAC, and audit logs), and AI agents in one workspace. Not just a tool, but more like a platform.

✨ Features

User Interface

• Dark/light/color themes with system preference detection
• Global search across all resources
• Responsive design for desktop, tablet, and mobile
• i18n support (English and Chinese)

Multi-Cluster Management

• Switch between multiple Kubernetes clusters
• Independent Prometheus configuration per cluster
• Automatic discovery from kubeconfig
• Fine-grained cluster access permissions

Resource Management

• Full coverage: Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVs, PVCs, Nodes, and more
• Live YAML editing with Monaco editor (syntax highlighting and validation)
• Detailed views with containers, volumes, events, and conditions
• Resource relationships (e.g., Deployment -> Pods)
• Create, update, delete, scale, and restart operations
• Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) support
• Quick image tag selector using Docker and container registry APIs
• Customizable sidebar with CRD shortcuts
• Kube proxy for direct pod/service access (no more kubectl port-forward)

Monitoring & Observability

• Real-time CPU, memory, and network charts (Prometheus)
• Live pod logs with filtering and search
• Web terminal for pods and nodes
• Built-in kubectl console
• AI assistant

Security

• OAuth integration
• Role-based access control
• User management and role allocation

Kite vs Headlamp / Kubernetes Dashboard

Headlamp and Kubernetes Dashboard are strong cluster operation tools focused on resource inspection and control. Kite includes those dashboard capabilities, but is designed as a team platform:

• Unified workspace for observability, multi-cluster operations, governance, and AI assistance
• Built-in team governance with OAuth, RBAC, user-role mapping, and audit logs
• Operational workflows beyond resource views: web terminal, built-in kubectl console, and kube proxy
• One system for operators, developers, and admins, instead of stitching separate tools

In short: those products are dashboard tools; Kite is a platform for daily Kubernetes operations and collaboration.

Getting Started

Ready to explore Kite? Check out the installation guide.