Quick Start

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Run Kiali locally

Kiali can be run directly on your machine without being installed into a Kubernetes cluster. It uses your kubeconfig to connect to your cluster(s). If needed, it can port-forward into the cluster to connect to your external services (prometheus, tracing, istio, grafana).

Running Kiali locally is currently experimental. Functionality may change between releases.

Download the Kiali binary from the Kiali GitHub releases page for your OS and Arch.

Deployment Options

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There are other, more complex deployment settings, described in dedicated pages:

Authentication
Customization of the Ingress resource
Customization of the service type (LoadBalancer or NodePort)
Namespace management (configuring namespaces accessible and visible to Kiali)

All examples on this page are focused on the Kiali CR (when installing via the Kiali operator). Remember that Helm charts mirror all these configurations.

Kiali and Istio installation namespaces

By default, the Kiali operator installs Kiali in the same namespace where the Kiali CR is created. However, it is possible to specify a different namespace for installation:

Installation on Kiali

Quick Start

Run Kiali locally

Deployment Options

Kiali and Istio installation namespaces