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You can customize the OpenShift Container Platform web console to set a custom logo, product name, links, notifications, and command line downloads. This is especially helpful if you need to tailor the web console to meet specific corporate or government requirements.

Adding a custom logo and product name

You can create custom branding by adding a custom logo or custom product name. You can set both or one without the other, as these settings are independent of each other.

Prerequisites
  • You must have administrator privileges.

  • Create a file of the logo that you want to use. The logo can be a file in any common image format, including GIF, JPG, PNG, or SVG, and is constrained to a max-height of 60px.

Procedure
  1. Import your logo file into a ConfigMap in the openshift-config namespace:

    $ oc create configmap console-custom-logo --from-file ~/path/to/console-custom-logo.png -n openshift-config
  2. Edit the web console’s Operator configuration to include customLogoFile and customProductName:

    $ oc edit console.operator.openshift.io cluster
    apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1
    kind: Console
    metadata:
      name: cluster
    spec:
      customization:
        customLogoFile:
          name: console-custom-logo
          key: console-custom-logo.png
        customProductName: My Console

    Once the Operator configuration is updated, it will sync the custom logo ConfigMap into the console namespace, mount it to the console pod, and redeploy.

  3. Check for success. If there are any issues, the console cluster operator will report Degraded, and the console Operator configuration will also report CustomLogoDegraded, but with reasons like KeyOrFilenameInvalid or NoImageProvided.

    To check the clusteroperator, run:

    $ oc get clusteroperator console -o yaml

    To check the console Operator configuration, run:

    $ oc get console.operator.openshift.io -o yaml
Prerequisites
  • You must have administrator privileges.

Procedure
  1. From AdministrationCustom Resource Definitions, click on ConsoleLink.

  2. Click YAML and edit the file:

    apiVersion: console.openshift.io/v1
    kind: ConsoleLink
    metadata:
      name: example
    spec:
      href: 'https://www.example.com'
      location: HelpMenu (1)
      text: Link 1
    1 Valid location settings are HelpMenu, UserMenu, and ApplicationMenu.

    To make the custom link appear in the application menu, follow this example:

    apiVersion: console.openshift.io/v1
    kind: ConsoleLink
    metadata:
      name: application-menu-link-1
    spec:
      href: 'https://www.example.com'
      location: ApplicationMenu
      text: Link 1
      applicationMenu:
        section: My New Section
        # image that is 24x24 in size
        imageURL: https://via.placeholder.com/24
  3. Click the Save button to apply your changes.

Customizing the login page

Create Terms of Service information with custom login pages. Custom login pages can also be helpful if you use a third-party login provider, such as GitHub or Google, to show users a branded page that they trust and expect before being redirected to the authentication provider. You can also render custom error pages during the authentication process.

Prerequisites
  • You must have administrator privileges.

Procedure
  1. Run the following commands to create templates you can modify:

    $ oc adm create-login-template > login.html
    $ oc adm create-provider-selection-template > providers.html
    $ oc adm create-error-template > errors.html
  2. Create the secrets:

    $ oc create secret generic login-template --from-file=login.html -n openshift-config
    $ oc create secret generic providers-template --from-file=providers.html -n openshift-config
    $ oc create secret generic error-template --from-file=errors.html -n openshift-config
  3. Run:

    $ oc edit oauths cluster
  4. Update the specification:

    spec:
      templates:
        error:
            name: error-template
        login:
            name: login-template
        providerSelection:
            name: providers-template

    Run oc explain oauths.spec.templates to understand the options.

If you are connected to a service that helps you browse your logs, but you need to generate URLs in a particular way, then you can define a template for your link.

Prerequisites
  • You must have administrator privileges.

Procedure
  1. From AdministrationCustom Resource Definitions, click on ConsoleExternalLogLink.

  2. Click YAML and edit the file:

    apiVersion: console.openshift.io/v1
    kind: ConsoleExternalLogLink
    metadata:
      name: example
    spec:
      hrefTemplate: >-
        https://example.com/logs?resourceName=${resourceName}&containerName=${containerName}&resourceNamespace=${resourceNamespace}&podLabels=${podLabels}
      text: Example Logs

Creating custom notification banners

Prerequisites
  • You must have administrator privileges.

Procedure
  1. From AdministrationCustom Resource Definitions, click on ConsoleNotification.

  2. Click YAML and edit the file:

    apiVersion: console.openshift.io/v1
    kind: ConsoleNotification
    metadata:
      name: example
    spec:
      backgroundColor: '#0088ce'
      color: '#fff'
      link:
        href: 'https://www.example.com'
        text: Optional link text
      location: BannerTop (1)
      text: This is an example notification message with an optional link.
    1 Valid location settings are BannerTop, BannerBottom, and BannerTopBottom.
  3. Click the Save button to apply your changes.

Customizing CLI downloads

You can configure links for downloading the CLI with custom link text and URLs, which can point directly to file packages or to an external page that provides the packages.

Prerequisites
  • You must have administrator privileges.

Procedure
  1. Navigate to AdministrationCustom Resource Definitions.

  2. Select ConsoleCLIDownload from the list of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).

  3. Click the YAML tab, and then make your edits:

    apiVersion: console.openshift.io/v1
    kind: ConsoleCLIDownload
    metadata:
      name: example-cli-download-links-for-foo
    spec:
      description: |
        This is an example of download links for foo
      displayName: example-foo
      links:
      - href: 'https://www.example.com/public/foo.tar'
        text: foo for linux
      - href: 'https://www.example.com/public/foo.mac.zip'
        text: foo for mac
      - href: 'https://www.example.com/public/foo.win.zip'
        text: foo for windows
  4. Click the Save button.