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Version: 1.28

Admin Dashboard
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The Admin Dashboard provides a web UI to see various details of your Okteto instance in a centralized location and offers features for managing parts of the Okteto experience for your users.

Accessing the dashboard​

You can access the Admin Dashboard by clicking on the Admin icon on the left sidebar. Only accounts with the administrator role will be able to access the Admin Dashboard. The first user signing into your Okteto instance will automatically become the initial administrator.

You can promote other accounts to the administrator role in the Users section of the Admin Dashboard or by adding the dev.okteto.com/super: "true" label to the corresponding serviceAccount in Kubernetes.

Admin dashboard tabs

The Admin Dashboard consists of the following views:

Cluster Management

Settings

Integrations

We will cover these in more detail below.

Overview​

The overview section of the Admin Dashboard is designed to give you a high level view of your Okteto instance. This section currently shows you the following information:

  • Your current pricing plan and license expiration date
  • Number of available seats
  • Okteto Helm chart version
  • Okteto CLI version
  • Kubernetes version
  • Number of nodes in your cluster
  • Number of Namespaces in your Okteto instance
  • Number of Preview Environments currently active

Installation​

Okteto is a flexible platform that streamlines your developer operations to make developers faster and more efficient. The initial installation has a few steps and we've built a guided experience to help get you setup even faster than before.

Okteto installation view

From this page you can follow a simple step-by-step guide to get the major components setup and have your Okteto installation ready to go in minutes. Each of these tasks comes with documentation to help guide you and are also skippable in case they don't apply to you or you simply wish to complete them later.

Catalog​

This section of the Admin dashboard allows you to build a library of ready-to-use development environments for your team. By setting up these environments in advance, developers can quickly deploy them from the Deploy Dev Environment UI, significantly speeding up their setup process and reducing the need for initial configuration.

Catalog table view

Please see our Catalog documentation to learn more about creating and deploying from an Okteto Catalog.

Users​

From this section you can manage all users in your Okteto instance. This is a list of all users that have created an account in your Okteto instance, their respective roles, and with appropriate actions to manage their membership.

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The User column is also the user's default namespace name/id. For example, a User value of "darryl" means that that user's namespace will also be called "darryl". Any additional namespaces created by "darryl" will show up only in the Namespaces tab.

On this page an administrator will be able to:

  • View the total number of users on the Okteto instance (The Total value in the top right of the table)
  • View each user's name, email, and avatar
  • View when a user was Last Seen (any user who recently sent any API request to Okteto, e.g. from the browser, CLI, GitHub actions)
  • Change each user's role (Select Dev or Admin from the dropdown menu in the Role column)
  • Remove users (Click the (X) Remote button on the far right)
caution

Removing the user will automatically remove all the namespaces owned by the deleted user.

Nodes​

In this section of the Admin Dashboard, you can find the following system information about your Kubernetes cluster, separated by node:

  • Number of running pods
  • Number of volumes in use
  • Memory utilization
  • CPU utilization

Namespaces​

This view enables you to manage all of the Namespaces within your Okteto instance, including the ability to view (masquerade as the user), wake, or persist any Namespace. The top of the Namespace table also shows you the default settings for the garbage collection configuration.

For each Namespace, an administrator can:

  • View the name, owner, status (active or sleeping), and when it was last active
  • Get read-only access to any Namespace managed by Okteto (using the View option)
  • Manually wake the Namespace (using the Wake Namespace option)
  • Mark the Namespace as persistent using the Keep Awake option to prevent it from being deleted and exempt it from the garbage collection process
  • Transfer a Namespace to a new owner

Previews​

Similar to the Namespaces section, the Previews section shows you a list of all Preview Environments that exist in your Okteto instance.

From this page, an administrator can view the default settings for the garbage collection configuration and view any of the listed Preview Environments.

This table provides a consolidated view about Preview Environments, including:

  • Preview Environment name
  • Owner
  • Scope (Personal or Global)
  • Status (Active or Sleeping)
  • Last seen

Command Line (CLI)​

The Command Line section allows you to manage how developers interact with Okteto via their CLI. Here, you can enable remote execution by default and configure the minimum accepted CLI version that developers can use.

As an Okteto Admin, you can now enforce a minimum accepted CLI version for your developers. This feature ensures compatibility, encourages feature adoption, and maintains a consistent experience across your team.

How Enforcing a Minimum Accepted CLI Version Works​

Admin Configuration

  • Set the minimum accepted CLI version through the Okteto Admin Dashboard. Let's say the installed CLI version on the cluster is 3.2.0, the options are:
    • Any Version: No restriction, developers can use any CLI version
    • Current Version: Restricts developers to use same CLI version installed on cluster or newer, i.e. >= v3.2
    • Previous Version: Restrict developers to at least the prior minor version, i.e. >= 3.1
    • Two Previous Versions: Restrict developers to at least two prior minor versions, i.e. >= 3.0

CLI Version Enforcement

  • Commands fail if a developer uses a CLI version older than the minimum setting, displaying an error prompting them to update their CLI.
note

Version enforcement only applies to those using Okteto CLI 3.2.0 and above.

Admin Variables​

The Admin Variables section of the Admin dashboard lets you define cluster-wide variables. You can refer to these variables directly in your Okteto manifest using the $SOME_VAR syntax. They are also injected into the environment running the commands in the deploy section of the manifest.

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Variables defined by the user take precedence over variables and build secrets defined through the manifest.

We recommend using build secrets to inject sensitive data into your Dockerfile.

The example below shows how to configure your Okteto manifest to mount a local .env file into your Dockerfile:

build:
  api:
    context: .
    secrets:
      my_env: .env

You can refer to this secret from your Dockerfile using the syntax below:

RUN --mount=type=secret,id=my_env,target=/etc/secrets/.env cat /etc/secrets/.env

The content of the .env file would be:

${MY_PASSWORD}

where MY_PASSWORD can be a local environment variable or an Okteto Secret, and it gets substituted by Okteto before mounting the file as a build secret.

Garbage Collector​

Configure sleep and delete periods for Okteto Namespaces and Preview Environments from the UI.

See our cleanup guide for full details on setting sleep and delete periods for your environments and other options available →

Resource Manager​

Automatically optimize the CPU and memory requests for your environments. By analyzing real-time resource utilization, the Resource Manager dynamically adjusts resource requests to ensure efficient usage, prevent node overload, and improve overall cluster performance. This feature simplifies resource management, reduces manual adjustments, and enhances application stability, especially in larger clusters.

See our Resource Manager documentation for a full guide on how to automatically optimize your environments →

General Integrations​

This section allows you to configure Okteto integrations with other tools.

The following options available are:

Admin Access Tokens​

You can use Admin Access Tokens instead of OAuth to authenticate with Okteto.

Admin Access Tokens are created and work in the same manner as Personal Access Tokens, with the difference that they have admin permissions. They are intended to be used over personal access tokens for shared automations, e.g. Preview Environments. Automations run with Admin Access tokens are performed by the okteto-bot user.

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It is important that you set the scope to global for Preview Environments created with the okteto-bot user so that users other than okteto-bot can view the environment.

Admin Access Tokens view

Registry Credentials​

If you choose to pull images from a private registry in addition to Okteto's Container Registry, you can configure credentials for that service here.

Review this page for a full description of how to configure and start using your own Registry Credentials →

Cloud Credentials​

Dynamically configure Okteto's connection to AWS and GCP, eliminating the need for developers to manage static credentials.

Review this page for a full description of how to configure and start using Cloud Credentials →