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Kyma Dashboard Terminal ​

The Kyma dashboard terminal gives you an interactive shell directly in your browser, without installing any local tools. When you open the terminal, Kyma dashboard creates a lightweight container Pod in your cluster and connects your browser to its shell through a WebSocket proxy.

Prerequisites ​

The terminal feature is disabled by default. To enable it, set the TERMINAL feature flag to isEnabled: true in the Busola configuration. For details, see Feature Flags.

Open the Terminal ​

  1. Make sure you have a cluster selected in Kyma dashboard. The terminal icon isn't available on the Clusters page.
  2. In the top navigation bar, choose the Terminal icon.
  3. The terminal panel opens at the bottom of the screen.

Kyma dashboard creates the busola-terminal namespace in your cluster (if it does not exist yet) and starts a Pod using the busola-dev-toolbox container image.

WARNING

When you close the terminal, the Pod is deleted. Any tools, files, or configurations you installed or created during the session are lost. The next time you open the terminal, the Pod starts fresh.

Available Commands ​

The terminal provides a full interactive Bash shell (/bin/bash) inside the busola-dev-toolbox container. The following are available by default:

NOTE

kubectl is not available in the terminal. The terminal Pod runs without a Kubernetes ServiceAccount, which means it has no access to the Kubernetes API. For cluster operations, use the Kyma dashboard UI or a local kubectl installation.

Limitations ​

The following table summarizes the key limitations of the terminal feature:

LimitationDetails
No kubectl accessThe terminal Pod has no Kubernetes ServiceAccount. kubectl commands are not available.
Ephemeral sessionClosing the terminal deletes the Pod. Files, tools, and settings are not preserved between sessions.
Single Pod per clusterEach user has one terminal Pod per cluster connection.