Open an Interactive Terminal

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The interactive terminal opens a shell inside a running container without leaving the Operator canvas. Use it for last-mile diagnosis that logs and status cannot answer: testing connectivity from inside a pod, reading a mounted file, or checking an injected environment variable. It is a browser-based equivalent of kubectl exec, scoped to the resource you selected.

Before you start 🔗

Operator mode on a Meshery you run. The hosted kanvas.new site does not offer Operator mode. See How Kanvas Works with Meshery and Layer5 Cloud.
A connected cluster with Meshery Operator deployed. Meshery Operator runs MeshSync and a message broker in the cluster. MeshSync executes the shell, and Meshery Server relays input and output through the broker. If any of the three is unavailable, the terminal does not connect (see Failure modes).
A running container whose image contains /bin/sh. Distroless images have no shell and cannot be used.

Open a session 🔗

The action is named Initiate Terminal Session and is offered on Pod and Container resources only. Right-click the resource on the canvas, or select it and use the action in the header of the Details panel. The session starts immediately and the terminal panel opens at the bottom left of the canvas. There is no separate connect step.

Terminal on Layer5 Documentation

Open an Interactive Terminal

Before you start 🔗

Open a session 🔗