The OpenShift Container Platform web console is a user interface accessible from a web browser. Developers can use the web console to visualize, browse, and manage the contents of projects.
JavaScript must be enabled to use the web console. For the best experience, use a web browser that supports WebSockets. |
The web console runs as a pod on the master. The static assets required to run the web console are served by the pod. Administrators can also customize the web console using extensions, which let you run scripts and load custom stylesheets when the web console loads.
When you access the web console from a browser, it first loads all required
static assets. It then makes requests to the OpenShift Container Platform APIs using the
values defined from the openshift start
option --public-master
, or from the
related parameter masterPublicURL
in the webconsole-config
config map
defined in the openshift-web-console
namespace. The web console uses
WebSockets to maintain a persistent connection with the API server and receive
updated information as soon as it is available.
The configured host names and IP addresses for the web console are whitelisted to access the
API server safely even when the browser would consider the requests to be cross-origin.
To access the API server from a web application using a different host name, you must
whitelist that host name by specifying the --cors-allowed-origins
option
on openshift start
or from the related
master
configuration file parameter corsAllowedOrigins
.
The corsAllowedOrigins
parameter is controlled by the configuration field. No
pinning or escaping is done to the value. The following is an example of how you
can pin a host name and escape dots:
corsAllowedOrigins: - (?i)//my\.subdomain\.domain\.com(:|\z)
The (?i)
makes it case-insensitive.
The //
pins to the beginning of the domain (and matches the double slash
following http:
or https:
).
The \.
escapes dots in the domain name.
The (:|\z)
matches the end of the domain name (\z)
or a port separator (:)
.
You can access CLI downloads from the Help icon in the web console:
Cluster administrators can customize these links further.
Review the tested integrations for OpenShift Container Platform.
After logging in, the web console provides developers with an overview for the currently selected project:
1 | The project selector allows you to switch between projects you have access to. |
2 | To quickly find services from within project view, type in your search criteria |
3 | Create new applications using a source repository or service from the service catalog. |
4 | Notifications related to your project. |
5 | The Overview tab (currently selected) visualizes the contents of your project with a high-level view of each component. |
6 | Applications tab: Browse and perform actions on your deployments, pods, services, and routes. |
7 | Builds tab: Browse and perform actions on your builds and image streams. |
8 | Resources tab: View your current quota consumption and other resources. |
9 | Storage tab: View persistent volume claims and request storage for your applications. |
10 | Monitoring tab: View logs for builds, pods, and deployments, as well as event notifications for all objects in your project. |
11 | Catalog tab: Quickly get to the catalog from within a project. |
Cockpit is automatically installed and enabled in OpenShift Container Platform 3.1 and later to help you monitor your development environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host: Getting Started with Cockpit provides more information on using Cockpit. |
For pods based on Java images, the web console also exposes access to a hawt.io-based JVM console for viewing and managing any relevant integration components. A Connect link is displayed in the pod’s details on the Browse → Pods page, provided the container has a port named jolokia.
After connecting to the JVM console, different pages are displayed depending on which components are relevant to the connected pod.
The following pages are available:
Page | Description |
---|---|
JMX |
View and manage JMX domains and mbeans. |
Threads |
View and monitor the state of threads. |
ActiveMQ |
View and manage Apache ActiveMQ brokers. |
Camel |
View and manage Apache Camel routes and dependencies. |
OSGi |
View and manage the JBoss Fuse OSGi environment. |