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Deploy Horizon

OpenStack Horizon is the web-based dashboard for the OpenStack ecosystem, providing users with a graphical interface to manage and interact with OpenStack services. Horizon simplifies the management of cloud resources by offering an intuitive and user-friendly platform where users can launch instances, manage storage, configure networks, and monitor the overall health of their cloud environment. It serves as the central point of interaction for administrators and users alike, providing visibility and control over the entire cloud infrastructure. In this document, we will detail the deployment of OpenStack Horizon using Genestack. By leveraging Genestack, the deployment of Horizon is made more efficient, ensuring that users have seamless access to a robust and responsive interface for managing their private and public cloud environments.

Create secrets

Information about the secretes used

Manual secret generation is only required if you haven't run the create-secrets.sh script located in /opt/genestack/bin.

Example secret generation 
kubectl --namespace openstack \
        create secret generic horizon-secret-key \
        --type Opaque \
        --from-literal=username="horizon" \
        --from-literal=password="$(< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Za-z0-9 | head -c${1:-64};echo;)"
kubectl --namespace openstack \
        create secret generic horizon-db-password \
        --type Opaque \
        --from-literal=password="$(< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Za-z0-9 | head -c${1:-32};echo;)"

Run the package deployment

cd /opt/genestack/submodules/openstack-helm

helm upgrade --install horizon ./horizon \
    --namespace=openstack \
    --wait \
    --timeout 120m \
    -f /etc/genestack/helm-configs/horizon/horizon-helm-overrides.yaml \
    --set endpoints.identity.auth.admin.password="$(kubectl --namespace openstack get secret keystone-admin -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d)" \
    --set conf.horizon.local_settings.config.horizon_secret_key="$(kubectl --namespace openstack get secret horizon-secret-key -o jsonpath='{.data.root-password}' | base64 -d)" \
    --set endpoints.oslo_db.auth.admin.password="$(kubectl --namespace openstack get secret mariadb -o jsonpath='{.data.root-password}' | base64 -d)" \
    --set endpoints.oslo_db.auth.horizon.password="$(kubectl --namespace openstack get secret horizon-db-password -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d)" \
    --post-renderer /etc/genestack/kustomize/kustomize.sh \
    --post-renderer-args horizon/base

Tip

You may need to provide custom values to configure your openstack services, for a simple single region or lab deployment you can supply an additional overrides flag using the example found at base-helm-configs/aio-example-openstack-overrides.yaml. In other cases such as a multi-region deployment you may want to view the Multi-Region Support guide to for a workflow solution.

Demo

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