Graphical User Interface

A zb server can optionally run a web server that provides a graphical user interface (GUI). This GUI allows viewing the status of running builds and inspection of the store. Administrators can enable the GUI by passing a flag like --ui=localhost:8080 to zb serve. Once the server has started, the user can view the GUI by visiting http://localhost:8080 in a web browser on the same machine as zb serve.

zb serve options

--ui [host]:port

If specified, then serve the GUI over HTTP on the given TCP port. If a host is specified, then the HTTP port will only be available on the interface with the given address.

--allow-remote-ui

For security reasons, connections are only permitted from the local machine by default, even if the address given to the zb serve --ui flag specifies an external interface. The zb serve --allow-remote-ui disables this protection.