Deploy your plugin on a cluster

Build an image with Docker
Deploy your plugin on a cluster
Disabling your plugin in the browser

You can deploy the plugin to a OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

Build an image with Docker

To deploy your plugin on a cluster, you need to build an image and push it to an image registry.

Procedure

Build the image with the following command:

$ docker build -t quay.io/my-repositroy/my-plugin:latest .

Optional: If you want to test your image, run the following command:

$ docker run -it --rm -d -p 9001:80 quay.io/my-repository/my-plugin:latest

Push the image by running the following command:

$ docker push quay.io/my-repository/my-plugin:latest

After pushing an image with your changes to a registry, you can deploy the plugin to a cluster.

Procedure

Install a Helm chart with the name of the plugin as the Helm release name into a new namespace or an existing namespace as specified by the -n command-line option. Provide the location of the image within the plugin.image parameter by using the following command:
```
$ helm upgrade -i  my-plugin charts/openshift-console-plugin -n my-plugin-namespace --create-namespace --set plugin.image=my-plugin-image-location
```
Where:

n <my-plugin-namespace>

Specifies an existing namespace to deploy your plugin into.

--create-namespace

Optional: If deploying to a new namespace, use this parameter.

--set plugin.image=my-plugin-image-location

Specifies the location of the image within the plugin.image parameter.
Optional: You can specify any additional parameters by using the set of supported parameters in the charts/openshift-console-plugin/values.yaml file.

plugin:
  name: ""
  description: ""
  image: ""
  imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
  replicas: 2
  port: 9443
  securityContext:
    enabled: true
  podSecurityContext:
    enabled: true
    runAsNonRoot: true
    seccompProfile:
      type: RuntimeDefault
  containerSecurityContext:
    enabled: true
    allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
    capabilities:
      drop:
        - ALL
  resources:
    requests:
      cpu: 10m
      memory: 50Mi
  basePath: /
  certificateSecretName: ""
  serviceAccount:
    create: true
    annotations: {}
    name: ""
  patcherServiceAccount:
    create: true
    annotations: {}
    name: ""
  jobs:
    patchConsoles:
      enabled: true
      image: "registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-tools-rhel8@sha256:e44074f21e0cca6464e50cb6ff934747e0bd11162ea01d522433a1a1ae116103"
      podSecurityContext:
        enabled: true
        runAsNonRoot: true
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault
      containerSecurityContext:
        enabled: true
        allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
        capabilities:
          drop:
            - ALL
      resources:
        requests:
          cpu: 10m
          memory: 50Mi

Verification

You can see the list of the enabled plugins on the Overview page or by navigating from Administration → Cluster Settings → Configuration → Console operator.openshift.io → Console plugins.

It can take a few minutes for the new plugin configuration to appear. If you do not see your plugin, you might need to refresh your browser if the plugin was recently enabled. If you receive any errors at runtime, check the JS console in browser developer tools to look for any errors in your plugin code.

Disabling your plugin in the browser

Console users can use the disable-plugins query parameter to disable specific or all dynamic plugins that would normally get loaded at run-time.

Procedure

To disable a specific plugin(s), remove the plugin you want to disable from the comma-separated list of plugin names.
To disable all plugins, leave an empty string in the disable-plugins query parameter.

Cluster administrators can disable plugins in the Cluster Settings page of the web console