ISTIOCTL-DASHBOARD-KIALI(1)

📦 version 1.31.3, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 ISTIOCTL-DASHBOARD-KIALI 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the istioctl-dashboard-kiali page — yes that's the whole manual name, we're folding it in right here at the top so you know exactly where you are 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

istioctl-dashboard-kiali — open the Kiali web UI. that's it. that's the whole job. she's an icon, she does one thing 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

istioctl dashboard kiali [flags]

literally just smash that into your terminal and Kiali pops up. flags are optional, the vibe is mandatory ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This opens Istio's Kiali dashboard. yep. that's the description. short and iconic, no notes 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for kiali. use it when you're lost, we don't judge 🥺
  • --ui-port=20001 — the component dashboard UI port. default is 20001, so if you're not touching it, it's already handled for you 🫶

💖 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💖

these are the hand-me-downs from the parent command and honestly they ate 👑

  • --address="localhost" — the address to listen on. it only accepts an IP address or localhost as a value. when localhost is supplied, istioctl will try to bind on both 127.0.0.1 and ::1, and it will fail if neither of these address are available to bind. so no shady random hostnames, bestie, she has standards 💀
  • --as="" — username to impersonate for the operation. user could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace 🌈
  • --as-group=[] — group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups. stack 'em up 🧚
  • --as-uid="" — UID to impersonate for the operation. yes, the whole identity package 💜
  • --browser[=true] — when --browser is supplied as false, istioctl dashboard will not open the browser. default is true which means istioctl dashboard will always open a browser to view the dashboard. so heads up: she's gonna open a tab whether you're ready or not 😭
  • --context="" — Kubernetes configuration context ✨
  • -i, --istioNamespace="istio-system" — Istio system namespace. default istio-system, where all the Istio besties live 🏠
  • --kubeclient-timeout="15s" — Kubernetes client timeout as a time.Duration string, defaults to 15 seconds. yes it's a time.Duration string, respect the type 🫡
  • -c, --kubeconfig="" — Kubernetes configuration file 📁
  • -n, --namespace="" — Kubernetes namespace 🌸
  • -p, --port=0 — local port to listen to. default 0, let the system cook 🔥
  • --vklog=0 — number for the log level verbosity. like -v flag. ex: --vklog=9. crank it to 9 if you wanna see everything 👀

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

  istioctl dashboard kiali

  # with short syntax
  istioctl dash kiali
  istioctl d kiali

the way that istioctl d kiali is the shortest possible path to the dashboard... lowkey obsessed. short syntax girlies stay winning 💅

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

ngl if something's acting cursed, the --vklog flag and the --kubeclient-timeout are your besties. but also, read the flags. they're right there. iykyk 🫶

and that's a wrap, bestie 💖 this little page was Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Jan 1980 (yes, literally Jan 1980, she's vintage 👑), and it's your ISTIOCTL-DASHBOARD-KIALI manual page — go open that dashboard, slay, periodt 🌟

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