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Navigating the Kube-DC Dashboard

The Kube-DC dashboard is the central interface for managing Projects, workloads, virtual machines, Managed Clusters, and your account.

Projects View​

After logging in, you land on the Projects page. It lists all projects in your organization along with their status, network CIDR, running pods, resource quotas, and creation date.

Projects view with navigation menu

From here you can:

  • Go to Project — open the workloads dashboard for a specific project
  • Details — view project configuration and resource limits
  • Delete — remove a project (requires appropriate permissions)

User Menu​

Click your name in the top-right corner to open the user menu with the following options:

Menu ItemDescription
Manage WorkloadsOpen the workloads dashboard for the selected project
Project consoleLaunch a web-based terminal with kubectl access scoped to your projects
Manage userOpen account settings (password, 2FA)
LogoutSign out of the dashboard

Workloads Dashboard​

Selecting Manage Workloads or clicking Go to Project takes you to the main workloads dashboard.

The workloads dashboard provides:

Quick Actions​

Three action cards at the top let you jump straight into common tasks:

  • Get CLI Access — download your kubeconfig for programmatic access via kubectl
  • Deploy Virtual Server — create a new Linux or Windows virtual machine
  • Create Managed Cluster — provision a Managed Cluster with its own Kubernetes API

The left sidebar shows a tree view of all resources in the current project:

  • Virtual Machines — grouped by OS (e.g., debian, ubuntu, win)
  • Managed Clusters — clusters and their worker pools

Project Overview​

The center panel adapts to the provider's billing mode:

  • Subscription plans show running and total Pods and VMs, storage volume count and size, LoadBalancers, and public IPs.
  • Metered plans show running compute usage and the current billing-period totals.

Resource Quotas​

When quota data is available, Quota Usage compares Project use with either its Project cap or the Organization's shared pool. It can include CPU, memory, storage, Pods, public IPv4, object storage, and provider-enabled accelerators.

Organization Admins can select View Organization Billing to open plan, usage, and cost details. Other Project members do not see that action.

Switching Projects​

Use the project switcher dropdown at the top of the dashboard (next to the Kube-DC logo) to switch between projects without returning to the projects list.

Project switcher dropdown

Simply click the current project name and select another project from the dropdown.

Resource Tabs​

Below the top navigation bar, a row of icon tabs lets you switch between different resource categories within the current project.

Resource navigation tabs

The tabs from left to right are:

Resource AreaWhat You Will Find
ComputePods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs
Kubernetes ResourcesConfigMaps, Secrets, ServiceAccounts, and platform-provided custom resources
VolumesPersistentVolumeClaims, storage usage
NetworkServices, Ingresses, Load Balancers, IPs
Object StorageS3-compatible buckets and access credentials

Organization Management​

From the Projects page, click the Kube-DC logo in the top-left corner to access the organization management view.

Organization management view

The left sidebar provides access to:

  • Projects — create, view, and manage projects
  • Users — invite and manage organization members
  • Organization Groups — manage user groups and role assignments
  • Project Roles — define custom roles for project-level access control
  • Billing — view usage, costs, and billing plan details
  • Audit Logs — review actions performed across the organization
  • Settings — configure organization-level settings

Project Web Console​

Select Project console from the user menu to launch a browser-based terminal. The console provides a pre-authenticated kubectl session scoped to the projects in your organization.

From the console you can:

  • List and switch Project contexts with kube-dc use
  • Run kubectl commands (aliased as kgp, kgs, etc.)
  • Manage resources directly without installing any CLI tools locally

Account Settings​

Select Manage user from the user menu to open your account settings.

Account settings — password and 2FA

Change Password​

Under Basic authentication, click Update next to your password entry to set a new password. The page shows when your current password was created.

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)​

Under Two-factor authentication, click Set up Authenticator application to enable 2FA using an app like Google Authenticator or Authy. Once configured, you will be prompted for a verification code on every login.

tip

Enabling 2FA is strongly recommended to protect your account, especially for organization administrators.

Next Steps​