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https://github.com/komodorio/helm-dashboard

The missing UI for Helm - visualize your releases
https://github.com/komodorio/helm-dashboard

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The missing UI for Helm - visualize your releases

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    Helm Dashboard

  




A simplified way of working with Helm.



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[Screenshot](images/screenshot.png)



## 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](https://komodor.com/?utm_campaign=Helm-Dash&utm_source=helm-dash-gh) 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](https://helm.sh/).



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](FEATURES.md).



## 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](https://github.com/komodorio/helm-dashboard/releases) for your platform, unpack it and just run `dashboard` 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:



```shell

helm plugin install https://github.com/komodorio/helm-dashboard.git

```



To update the plugin to the latest version, run:



```shell

helm plugin update dashboard

```



To uninstall, run:



```shell

helm plugin uninstall dashboard

```



To use the plugin, your machine needs to have working `helm` and also `kubectl` commands. Helm version 3.4.0+ is required.



After installing, start the UI by running:



```shell

helm dashboard

```



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 `helm dashboard --help`.



By default, the web server is only available locally. You can change that by specifying `HD_BIND` environment variable

to the desired value. For example, `0.0.0.0` would bind to all IPv4 addresses or `[::0]` would be all IPv6 addresses.

This can also be specified using flag `--bind `, for example `--bind=0.0.0.0` or `--bind 0.0.0.0`.



> Precedence order: flag `--bind=` > env `HD_BIND=` > default value `localhost`



If your port 8080 is busy, you can specify a different port to use via `--port ` command-line flag.



If you need to limit the operations to a specific namespace, please use `--namespace=...` in your command-line. You can specify multiple namespaces, separated by commas.



If you don't want the browser tab to automatically open, add `--no-browser` flag in your command line.



If you want to increase the logging verbosity and see all the debug info, use the `--verbose` flag.



> Disclaimer: For the sake of improving the project quality, there is user analytics collected by the tool. You can disable this collecting with `--no-analytics` 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](https://github.com/komodorio/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/helm-dashboard)



## Support Channels



We have two main channels for supporting the Helm Dashboard

users: [Slack community](https://komodorkommunity.slack.com) for general conversations

and [GitHub issues](https://github.com/komodorio/helm-dashboard/issues) for real bugs.



## Contributing



Kindly read our [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) 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](https://go.dev/doc/install)

- Node.js



There is a need to build frontend and then backend as a series of commands, run:



### Linux



```shell

cd frontend && npm run build && cd ..

go build -o bin/dashboard .

```



Or just `make build` that will do everything inside.



Then, you can run `npm run dev` from `frontend` directory to work on frontend with Vite hot reload.



### Windows



```bat

cd frontend && npm run build && cd ..

go build -o bin\dashboard.exe .

```



You can just run the `dashboard` or `dashboard.exe` binary directly.



To install, checkout the source code and run from source dir:



```shell

helm plugin install .

```



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:



```shell

helm dashboard

```



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 `unstable` tag for Docker image upon every build of `main` branch, you can make our Helm chart to use that image by providing values:



```yaml

image:

  pullPolicy: Always

  tag: unstable

```