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User Guide

k8shell can be accessed through several user-facing tools, each suited to a different workflow.

  • Console Early Access — browser-based interface for launching workspaces, opening terminal sessions, and accessing workspace applications. No local tooling required.
  • k8shell CLI — command-line tool for managing the platform from your local machine. Covers the full lifecycle of workspaces, users, sessions, and contexts against the API Server.
  • SSH — connect to a workspace directly with any standard SSH client. Covers interactive shells, remote exec, agent forwarding, SFTP, port forwarding, and Unix socket forwarding.

k8shell also provides an in-workspace CLI for accessing platform services from within a workspace session:

  • kbox CLI — runs inside the workspace container and does not require authentication tokens.