Buckit Object Storage User Guide

Buckit Manager Web UI

The Buckit Manager web interface is a graphical user interface for deploying, importing, monitoring, and operating Buckit clusters from your own workstation.

This page provides an overview of the Buckit Manager web interface and describes how to start it and log in. For installation instructions, see Install the Buckit Manager.

Overview

Buckit Manager (bm) is a single binary that includes both a command line and a local web interface. The web interface is a personal operations console: you run it on your own Mac, Windows, or Linux machine to manage one or more Buckit clusters. It is closer in spirit to tools like gh or jupyter notebook than to a centralized, always-on cluster console.

Unlike the Admin Console, which is embedded in each Buckit Server and serves bucket and object browsing for a single deployment, the Buckit Manager web interface runs as a client on your workstation and manages the lifecycle and health of entire clusters: deploying new clusters over SSH, importing and migrating existing deployments, and running cluster, host, and node operations.

With the Buckit Manager web interface you can:

Monitor cluster, node, and drive health across all of your clusters.
Run cluster, host, and node operations such as restart, stop, start, heal, upgrade, and root password rotation.
Add clusters by deploying new ones, importing running deployments, or migrating MinIO Community Edition to Buckit.
Configure connection credentials and application settings such as SSH and admin credentials, action history, and updates.

Supported Browsers

The Buckit Manager web interface runs on current, stable releases of common desktop browsers, including:

Chrome
Edge
Safari
Firefox
Opera

For the best experience, use the latest stable release of your preferred browser.

Note

The Buckit Manager web interface is a desktop tool. The cluster detail page uses a wide monitoring grid that is not designed for mobile screens.

Starting the Web Interface

Run the following command on the system where you installed bm:

bm web

By default, bm web starts the application on http://127.0.0.1:9443/ and opens your default browser automatically.

The bm web process is long-running. Leave it running while you work in the browser; stop it with Ctrl-C in the terminal when you are done.

Local-Only by Default

By default, bm web listens only on the loopback address (127.0.0.1), so the interface is reachable only from the machine where it runs. Because the listener is local-only, the default mode does not require a login.