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A common use-case for any Kubernetes web UI is to deploy it in-cluster and set up an ingress server for having it available to users.

We maintain a simple/vanilla file for setting up a Headlamp deployment and service. Be sure to review it and change anything you need.

If you're happy with the options in the this deployment file, and assuming you have a running Kubernetes cluster and your kubeconfig pointing to it, you can run:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kinvolk/headlamp/master/kubernetes-headlamp.yaml

With this, the Headlamp service should be running, but you still need the ingress server as mentioned. We provide an example sample ingress yaml file for this purpose, but you have to manually replace the URL placeholder with the desired URL (the ingress file also assumes that you have contour and a cert-manager set up, but if you don't then you'll just not have TLS).

Assuming your URL is headlamp.mydeployment.io, getting the sample ingress file and changing the URL can quickly be done by:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kinvolk/headlamp/master/kubernetes-headlamp-ingress-sample.yaml | sed -e s/__URL__/headlamp.mydeployment.io/ > headlamp-ingress.yaml

and with that, you'll have a configured ingress file, so verify it and apply it:

kubectl apply -f ./headlamp-ingress.yaml

Accessing using OIDC

Headlamp supports OIDC for cluster users to effortlessly log in.

screenshot the login dialog for a cluster

For OIDC to be used, Headlamp needs to know how to configure it, so you have to provide the different OIDC-related arguments to Headlamp from your OIDC provider. Those are:

  • the client ID: -oidc-client-id
  • the client secret: -oidc-client-secret
  • the issuer URL: -oidc-idp-issuer-url

and you have to tell the OIDC provider about the callback URL, which in Headlamp it is your URL + the /oidc-callback path, e.g.: https://YOUR_URL/oidc-callback

Example: OIDC with Dex

If you are using Dex and want to configure Headlamp to use it for OIDC, then you have to:

  • Add the callback URL (e.g. https://YOUR_URL/oidc-callback) to Dex's staticClient.redirectURIs
  • Set -oidc-client-id as Dex's staticClient.id
  • Set -oidc-client-secret as Dex's staticClient.secret
  • Set -oidc-idp-issuer-url as Dex's URL (same as in --oidc-issuer-url in the Kubernetes APIServer)