Important
After the original vmware-tanzu/kubeapps project was archived in August 2025, this fork was established as a supported replacement under the Chainguard EmeritOSS program.
Active development and maintenance has since transitioned to SAP, which now hosts the official upstream at https://github.com/SAP/kubeapps.
This repository is archived and is being retained for visibility only.
New and existing users should use the SAP fork.
If you are interested in a Chainguard image of SAP/kubeapps, please contact us at https://www.chainguard.dev/contact.
Kubeapps was originally created by VMware Tanzu and published at vmware-tanzu/kubeapps. The project was archived in August 2025 and forked by Chainguard in November 2025 to chainguard-forks/kubeapps.
The Chainguard fork was archived February 2026. No further work for this fork is planned.
Kubeapps releases are only created as tags on the source repository.
Release notes and source code archives are available on the releases section.
Binary release artifacts such as container images are not published.
Kubeapps is an in-cluster web-based application that enables users with a one-time installation to deploy, manage, and upgrade applications on a Kubernetes cluster.
With Kubeapps you can:
- Browse and deploy different packages like Helm charts, Flux or Carvel packages from public or private repositories (including VMware Marketplace™ and Bitnami Application Catalog)
- Customize deployments through an intuitive user interface
- Browse, upgrade and delete applications installed in the cluster
- Browse and deploy Kubernetes Operators
- Secure authentication to Kubeapps using a standalone OAuth2/OIDC provider or using Pinniped
- Secure authorization based on Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control
Note: Kubeapps 2.0 and onwards supports Helm 3 only. While only the Helm 3 API is supported, in most cases, charts made for Helm 2 will still work.
Installing Kubeapps is as simple as:
kubectl create namespace kubeapps
helm install kubeapps --namespace kubeapps oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/kubeappsSee the Getting Started Guide for detailed instructions on how to install and use Kubeapps.
Kubeapps is deployed using the official Bitnami Kubeapps chart from the separate Bitnami charts repository. Although the Kubeapps repository also defines a chart, this is intended for development purposes only.
Complete documentation available in Kubeapps documentation section. Including complete tutorials, how-to guides, and reference for configuration and development in Kubeapps.
For getting started into Kubeapps, please refer to:
- Getting started guide
- Detailed installation instructions
- Kubeapps user guide to easily manage your applications running in your cluster.
- Kubeapps FAQs.
See how to deploy and configure Kubeapps on VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™
If you encounter issues, please review the troubleshooting docs, review our project board, file an issue, or talk to Kubeapps maintainers on the #Kubeapps channel on the Kubernetes Slack server.
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Sign up to the Kubernetes Slack org.
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Review the FAQs section on the Kubeapps chart README.
If you are ready to jump in and test, add code, or help with documentation, follow the instructions on the start contributing documentation for guidance on how to setup Kubeapps for development.
Take a look at the list of releases to stay tuned for the latest features and changes.