Running Kiali locally should be included in the product docs as a possible alternative to installing Kiali in the cluster.

This needs some refinement for the level of support we want to have for running Kiali locally in OSSM. There's no technical limitation for this as it works just as well to run locally with OpenShift clusters as it does with Kube clusters.

Until a productized binary is available for Kiali, the productized container image can be used directly to run Kiali locally. The following command will run the Kiali container locally and mount the kubeconfig from your machine into the container. With the container running, you would navigate to http://localhost:20001 to open Kiali. --no-browser is necessary because opening the default browser automatically doesn't work when running inside a container.

docker run --volume ~/.kube/config:/opt/kiali/.kube/config:ro --network host --rm -it <kiali-container-image> run --kubeconfig /opt/kiali/.kube/config --port-forward-prom --no-browser