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devtron is a free, open source cloud infrastructure management project written in Go and released under Apache-2.0. It has 5,599 GitHub stars, 594 forks and 777 open issues, and was last pushed 12 hours ago. On this registry it ranks #24 of 43 tracked projects in Cloud Infrastructure Management, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available. It gained 2 stars over the last 3 tracked days.

What is devtron?

What it is

Devtron is an open-source Kubernetes dashboard and management platform, written in Go and released under the Apache-2.0 license. It lives in the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem, and its topic list places it alongside tools such as ArgoCD, Helm, and the managed clusters of AKS and EKS. The project describes itself as an AI-native Kubernetes management platform that unifies application and infrastructure management, with an extensible dashboard as its main surface. The repository is six years old, has accumulated roughly 5,595 stars and 592 forks, and was last pushed in September 2026.

The concrete problem it addresses is the gap between Kubernetes being powerful and Kubernetes being complex. Operators end up juggling several separate surfaces: one for Helm releases, another for raw cluster resources, another for GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and FluxCD, and yet another for access control. Devtron puts those into a single interface with built-in role-based access control, so a team can see and manage workloads across multiple clusters from one place. For Helm applications specifically, it handles deployment, configuration, and rollback, and it can compare and reconcile configuration drift between environments.

Key capabilities

  • Helm application management for deploying, configuring, and managing Helm apps, including rollback of releases.
  • Resource browser for visualizing and managing cluster resources such as Nodes, Pods, ConfigMaps, and custom resource definitions.
  • Single sign-on integration to simplify onboarding and authentication of team members.
  • Fine-grained RBAC controlling what users can reach within the dashboard and the underlying cluster resources.
  • A single pane of glass covering Helm, ArgoCD, and FluxCD applications spread across multiple clusters.
  • Configuration drift comparison and reconciliation across environments.
  • Centralized dashboard for viewing and managing Kubernetes resources in more than one cluster.

Who uses it and how

  • Platform and application operations teams managing Helm releases across several clusters from one dashboard.
  • Teams already running ArgoCD or FluxCD for GitOps that want a shared view of what those tools have deployed.
  • Organizations that need to onboard many users with SSO and then restrict each person's access through RBAC.
  • Operators comparing staging and production configurations to find and fix drift before it causes incidents.
  • Engineers debugging existing Helm applications in clusters they did not deploy themselves.

Getting started

Prerequisites are a Kubernetes cluster, preferably version 1.16 or higher, and Helm. The dashboard installs from the Helm repository at https://helm.devtron.ai with `helm install devtron dev

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AI-Native Kubernetes Management Platform

Kubernetes is powerful but complex. Devtron unifies app and infrastructure management with an AI teammate to simplify operations and accelerate delivery.


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Devtron's extensible Kubernetes Dashboard provides clear visibility into your Kubernetes clusters and streamlines Helm app management through a single, intuitive interface.
With built-in RBAC, it ensures secure access while offering integrated insights into workloads deployed via GitOps tools like ArgoCD and FluxCD across multiple clusters. Devtron creates a centralized DevOps hub, accelerating operations by up to 20x :rocket:

Check out the below video to experience the full power of the Kubernetes Dashboard.


Out of the box, Devtron's Kubernetes Dashboard includes:

  • Helm Application Management to streamline deploying, configuration, and management of Helm apps
  • Resource Browser to visualize and manage different cluster resources like Nodes, Pods, ConfigMaps, Custom Resource Definations (CRDs), etc
  • Single Sign On (SSO) to simplify onboarding and authenticating team members.
  • Fine Grained RBAC to control the level of access users have to different Dashboard and Cluster resources.

Devtron helps you deploy, observe, manage & debug existing Helm apps in all your clusters.

Devtron Dashboard

Devtron's Kubernetes Dashboard offers a variety of different features, giving you flexibility to manage your clusters as you desire.

Features 🤩

  • Simplified configuration and management for Helm applications with easy rollback
  • Compare and reconcile configuration drifts across environments
  • Manage Helm deployments to multiple Kubernetes environments
  • A single pane of glass for Helm, ArgoCD, and FluxCD applications across multiple clusters
  • Centralized Dashboard to view and manage K8s resources across multiple clusters
  • Comprehensive SSO and RBAC to ensure secure dashboard access for team collaboration

To get a more comprehensive understanding of Devtron's Kubernetes Dashboard, please visit the documentation

Installation

Before you begin, you must create a Kubernetes cluster (preferably K8s 1.16 or higher) and install Helm.

Install Devtron's Kubernetes Dashboard

Run the following command to install the latest version of Devtron's Kubernetes Dashboard:

helm repo add devtron https://helm.devtron.ai

helm install devtron devtron/devtron-operator \
--create-namespace --namespace devtroncd

Access Devtron

URL: Use the following command to get the dashboard URL:

kubectl get svc -n devtroncd devtron-service -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress}'

Credentials:

UserName: admin
Password: Run the following command to get the admin password for Devtron version v0.6.0 and higher

kubectl -n devtroncd get secret devtron-secret -o jsonpath='{.data.ADMIN_PASSWORD}' | base64 -d

For Devtron version less than v0.6.0, run the following command to get the admin password:

kubectl -n devtroncd get secret devtron-secret -o jsonpath='{.data.ACD_PASSWORD}' | base64 -d

Please refer to the document for more information on how to access the Devtron Dashboard.

Devtron Platform

The Devtron Platform provides a complete solution for all DevOps requirements, helping to create a single centralized DevOps Platform for managing all applications across Kubernetes clusters.

With Devtron Platform, you can accelerate your application delivery lifecycle by leveraging advanced features like canary deployments, A/B testing, and automated rollbacks. Devtron Platform helps you achieve faster time-to-market and improved application reliability by simplifying Kubernetes operations and streamlining development workflows.

Devtron deeply integrates with products across the lifecycle of microservices,i.e., CI, CD, security, cost, debugging, and observability via an intuitive web interface and helps you deploy, observe, manage & debug applications across all your Kubernetes clusters.

Devtron Integrations

By harnessing the potential of diverse integrations, Devtron Dashboard can evolve into a robust platform, automating Kubernetes application workflows, from CI/CD pipelines to ongoing maintenance

Devtron comes with the following integrations:

  • Build and Deploy (CI/CD) integration enables software development teams to automate the build and deployment process, allowing them to focus on meeting the business requirements, maintaining code quality, and ensuring security
  • GitOps (Argo CD) integration uses ArgoCD to implement GitOps for continuous delivery with GitOps patterns
  • Vulnerability Scanning (Clair) integration enables you to scan the vulnerabilities of the images during the time of image build only.
  • Vulnerability Scanning (Trivy) integration enables you to scan the vulnerabilities of the images during the time of image build only.
  • Notifications integration, lets you receive alerts for build and deployment pipelines on trigger, success, and failure events to your email or a Slack channel via SES and SMTP.
  • Monitoring (Grafana) integration use

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Frequently asked questions

Is devtron free to use?

devtron is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does devtron do?

The only Kubernetes dashboard you need

What is devtron written in?

devtron is primarily written in Go. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron, and it has 5,599 GitHub stars.