KubeBrowser System Operator

Operator for configuring and managing Kubebrowser resources.

Overview

• This operator integrates a full web-browsing capability directly into your cluster.
• It introduces a Browser custom resource that deploys a Chromium browser inside a pod.
• A built-in console plugin provides a page with VNC access to the browser, letting you browse the web directly from within your cluster environment.
• A sidecar REST API allows programmatic remote control of the browser.
• Without this operator, testing a service typically required creating a Route, exec’ing into another pod and running curl, or setting up a port-forward. Now you can simply open a browser from inside the cluster.

Purpose

The Browser Operator makes it easy to:

• Test services from within the cluster
• Validate network connectivity across namespaces
• Verify access to external services
• Debug routing, DNS, and access issues directly from the cluster’s perspective

Components

• System Operator (this) (under ./pkg/system-manager)
• Browser Operator (under ./pkg/browser-manager)
• Browser API (under ./pkg/browser-api)
• Browser Server (at browser-server repo)
• Console Plugin (at console-plugin repo)

Schema

Platform

Here are the platforms currently supported:

• OpenShift 4.19+ Only

Running

To run this locally

make install run

To deploy locally

make deploy

Contributing

You can contribute by:

• Raising any issues you find using the Operator
• Submitting a patch or opening a PR
• Requesting changes or features

Licensing

This software and its components are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.