Environment Variables

Kite supports several environment variables by default to change the default values of some configuration items.

• KITE_CONFIG_FILE: Path to the configuration file. Available in Kite v0.10.0 and later. When set, Kite loads cluster, OAuth, LDAP, RBAC, and super user settings from this file. See Configuration File for details.

• KITE_USERNAME: Legacy environment variable for the initial administrator username. It is only used for env-to-DB migration when KITE_CONFIG_FILE is not set.

• KITE_PASSWORD: Legacy environment variable for the initial administrator password. It is only used for env-to-DB migration when KITE_CONFIG_FILE is not set.

• KUBECONFIG: Legacy kubeconfig environment variable used to import clusters when KITE_CONFIG_FILE is not set.

• ANONYMOUS_USER_ENABLED: Enable anonymous user access, default value is false. When enabled, all access will no longer require authentication and will have the highest permissions by default.

• JWT_SECRET: Secret key used for signing and verifying JWT

• KITE_ENCRYPT_KEY: Secret key used for encrypting sensitive data, such as user passwords, OAuth clientSecret, kubeconfig, etc.

• HOST: Used for generating OAuth 2.0 authorization callback addresses, default will be obtained from request headers. If you find the result not as expected, you can manually configure this environment variable.

• NODE_TERMINAL_IMAGE: Docker image used for generating Node Terminal Agent.

• ENABLE_ANALYTICS: Enable data analytics functionality, default value is false. When enabled, Kite will collect limited data to help improve the product.

• PORT: Port on which Kite runs, default value is 8080.