Desktop App Installation

    Headlamp can be run as a desktop application, for users who don’t want to deploy it in cluster, or those who want to manage unrelated clusters locally.

    Currently there are desktop apps for Linux , Mac , and Windows .

    Please check the following guides for the installation in your desired platform.

    Use a non-default kube config file

    If you wish to use a non-default kube config file, then you can do it by providing it as an argument to Headlamp, e.g.:

    /path/to/headlamp /my/different/kubeconfig
    

    or by using an environment variable:

    KUBECONFIG=/my/different/kubeconfig /path/to/headlamp
    

    Use several kube config files

    If you need to use more than one kube config file at the same time, you can list each config file path with a separator.

    On unix:

    KUBECONFIG=kubeconfig1:kubeconfig2:kubeconfig3 /path/to/headlamp
    

    On windows cmd/PowerShell:

    KUBECONFIG=kubeconfig1;kubeconfig2;kubeconfig3 /path/to/headlamp
    

    Access using OIDC

    OIDC has a feature makes more sense when running Headlamp in a cluster as it will allow cluster operators to just give users a URL that they can use for logging in and access Headlamp. However, if you have your kube config set to use OIDC for the authentication (because you already authenticated and produced a kube config with that data), Headlamp will read those settings and try to use them for offering the effortless login to the cluster.

    Still, the kube config OIDC settings will not provide a OIDC callback URL, so make sure that your OIDC configuration for your cluster include Headlamp’s OIDC callback in its redirect URIs. i.e. say you’re using Dex for the OIDC connection and you have it already configured in your kube config, then be sure to add the /oidc-callback endpoint with Headlamp’s the local address to Dex’s staticClient.redirectURIs: http://localhost:6644/oidc-callback.