To log in to Backyards, set your KUBECONFIG file to the cluster where the Backyards control plane is running, then run the following command.

backyards login --kubeconfig <path/to/kubeconfig>

A temporary login token is displayed. Now you can return perform other actions from the command line.

Next steps 🔗︎

Once you have logged in, you can use other Backyards commands, or use Backyards in reconciler or operator mode.

To access the Backyards web interface, run the backyards dashboard command (note that if you don’t already have Istio workload and traffic, the dashboard will be empty).