Dev mode

Dev mode is a development security provider that allows you to evaluate Management Center without needing credentials for logging in or using the REST API.

Once you have enabled dev mode, you are automatically logged into Management Center as an admin user without needing to supply any credentials.

Set up dev mode

To set up dev mode, you can use the UI, the hz-mc conf tool, or a YAML declarative configuration file.

UI

To set up dev mode in the UI, click Enable Dev Mode when Management Center starts.

mc-conf

To set up dev mode with hz-mc conf, use the following command.

You can use this task for various scripting purposes, and automatically configuring Management Center, without using the UI.

Linux and Mac

bash

hz-mc conf dev-mode configure

Windows

bash

mc-conf.bat dev-mode configure

YAML (Beta)

To set up dev mode with a YAML declarative configuration file, declare an empty devMode block under securityProvider:

yaml

securityProvider:
  devMode: {}

Using --force to configure dev mode

Use the -f / --force flag with dev-mode configure to make configuration idempotent:

• If dev mode is not yet configured, it is set up.
• If dev mode is already configured, the command succeeds without making any changes.
• If a different security provider is currently active, the command fails with an error even when --force is used.

Next steps

For details about the hz-mc conf tool, see Management Center Configuration Tool. For details about the YAML declarative configuration file, including how to switch from dev mode to another provider without a manual reset step, see YAML declarative configuration and Declarative configuration apply modes.