Desktop

To run Kubetail on your desktop, you can use the Kubetail CLI tool (kubetail) to start/stop the Kubetail Dashboard and perform other operations on your cluster.

Install

Homebrew

To install the Kubetail CLI tool (kubetail) with homebrew use this command:


brew install kubetail

By default homebrew will place the executable in a directory that’s already in to your path. To verify that the installation worked you can check the version number:


kubetail --version

Shell

To install the Kubetail CLI tool (kubetail) with a shell script you can run this command:


curl -sS https://www.kubetail.com/install.sh | bash

This will download our install.sh script and run it in one step. The script will automatically detect your OS/Arch, download the appropriate binary file and place it in your /usr/local/bin/ directory. To verify that the installation worked you can check the version number:


kubetail --version

Download Binary

First, download the binary for your OS/Arch (from the latest release binaries ):

Next, rename the file and make it executable:


mv <filename> kubetail
chmod a+x kubetail

To verify that the installation worked you can check the version number:


./kubetail --version

Next Steps

To start the Kubetail Dashboard use the serve sub-command:


kubetail serve

This command will start the dashboard server in your terminal and open http://localhost:7500/ in your default browser.

For more information about the Kubetail Dashboard, check out the documentation here.

For more information about the Kubetail CLI tool, check out the documentation here.