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Using the Dashboard

The Astrolift dashboard is the web UI that sits in front of the same Control API the CLI uses. Most of what you can do at the terminal you can do here, plus a few things that are easier in a browser — editing the manifest, watching a deploy roll out, or running a one-off command in a container.

Layout

The dashboard is divided into a left sidebar and a content area.

The sidebar groups routes into four sections:

  • Platform — Overview, Apps, Projects, Teams.
  • Operations — Deployments, Environments, Workflows, Jobs, Previews, Events, Audit.
  • Infrastructure — Clusters, Domains, Providers, Webhooks, Source providers.
  • Administration — Members.

The header on every page carries a breadcrumb trail, a notifications bell, and a sidebar collapse toggle. The footer has the language switcher, theme (light/dark/system) toggle, and the signed-in user menu.

The brand chip

The sidebar header shows the Astrolift mark and the name of your install — for example, Astrolift / Acme Local. Each Astrolift install runs as exactly one organization, so there's no org switcher; the chip is a label, not a control.

Locale and theme

  • Language — eight locales available out of the box (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese). Pick one and the dashboard remembers it across sessions.
  • Theme — light, dark, or system. The Astrolift teal accent and navy palette stay consistent in both modes.

Keyboard

Press Tab from page load to surface a "Skip to main content" link that jumps past the sidebar. Every interactive element supports keyboard focus; modals and sheets trap focus until dismissed.

Permissions

Every action button is gated by a permission check. If you don't see "Deploy" on the app overview, your role doesn't include app.deploy. Page-level access is enforced server-side too — if you navigate to a route you can't read, the dashboard returns a 404 instead of a permission error.

Where to go from here

  • Working with apps — registering, deploying, editing the manifest, managing secrets and sub-resources.
  • Running an org — alerts, events, audit log, cost, quotas, cluster management.