Mission Control: Operating Self‑Hosted LangSmith on Kubernetes
Adopt Mission Control to manage self‑hosted LangSmith on Kubernetes, using its Helm values editor and preflight checks to reduce deployment errors.
Adopt Mission Control to manage self‑hosted LangSmith on Kubernetes, using its Helm values editor and preflight checks to reduce deployment errors.
Summary
Mission Control is a new in‑cluster application that consolidates configuration, preflight checks, health, release history, diagnostics, and support workflows for self‑hosted LangSmith on Kubernetes. By running inside the cluster with no ingress, external control plane, or extra database, Mission Control keeps all operations within existing security boundaries and reduces context switching between Helm, kubectl, dashboards, and scripts. The tool offers a guided onboarding flow that generates minimal values.yaml, a bidirectional Helm values editor with secret‑aware diffs, and cluster‑aware preflight checks for node capacity, DNS, storage class, and namespace quotas. Operators can view a unified health dashboard that displays pod CPU/memory, service readiness, logs, network topology, and PVC capacity, and can manage releases with version‑aware deployment, changelog context, and rollback history. Mission Control also includes an in‑cluster LangChain chat assistant that answers LangSmith‑specific questions while scrubbing secrets, rule‑based alerting for operational events, and a global search across logs, events, releases, and database tools. Diagnostic bundles can be generated on failure, containing pod logs, cluster metadata, and kubectl describe outputs, streamlining incident response. The article explains how Mission Control simplifies day‑to‑day operations for platform teams running LangSmith in private, regulated, or air‑gapped environments.
Key changes
- Runs Mission Control inside Kubernetes with no ingress, external control plane, or extra database.
- Provides guided onboarding that generates minimal values.yaml and a Helm values editor with secret‑aware diffs.
- Performs cluster‑aware preflight checks for node capacity, DNS, storage class, and namespace quotas.
- Offers unified health dashboard showing pod CPU/memory, service readiness, logs, network topology, PVC capacity.
- Supports version‑aware release management with changelog context and rollback history.
- Includes in‑cluster LangChain chat assistant for LangSmith‑specific queries.
- Adds rule‑based alerting for operational events and global search across logs, events, releases, and database tools.
- Generates diagnostic bundles with pod logs, cluster metadata, and kubectl describe outputs.