OpenShift Container Platform

Enabling the Developer perspective in the web console

Enable the Developer perspective in the web console to give your developers tools to manage applications, visualize topology, and monitor projects as they develop and build them.

Starting with OpenShift Container Platform 4.19, the perspectives in the web console have unified. There is no longer a Developer perspective by default; however, cluster administrators can enable the Developer perspective for developers to use.

You can enable the Developer perspective with the following steps:

Prerequisites

You have access to the web console as a user with cluster-admin privileges.

Procedure

Navigate to the Cluster Settings page by clicking Administration › Cluster Settings.
Select the Configuration tab.
Type console in the search field to locate the Console Operator resource and select operator.openshift.io.
On the Cluster Details page, click the Actions menu and select Customize.
In the General tab, locate the Perspectives section. You can enable or disable the Developer perspective as needed. Changes are automatically applied.
Optional: You can enable the Developer perspective by using the CLI with the following command:
```
$ oc patch console.operator.openshift.io/cluster --type='merge' -p '{"spec":{"customization":{"perspectives":[{"id":"dev","visibility":{"state":"Enabled"}}]}}}'
```
The change reflects in the web console after the console pod restarts successfully.

Verification

Locate the perspective switcher in the web console.
Verify that Developer is displayed as an available perspective option.