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Deploy Skyline

OpenStack Skyline is the next-generation web-based dashboard designed to provide a modern, responsive, and highly performant interface for managing OpenStack services. As an evolution of the traditional Horizon dashboard, Skyline focuses on improving user experience with a more streamlined and intuitive design, offering faster load times and enhanced responsiveness. It aims to deliver a more efficient and scalable way to interact with OpenStack components, catering to both administrators and end-users who require quick and easy access to cloud resources. In this document, we will cover the deployment of OpenStack Skyline using Genestack. Genestack ensures that Skyline is deployed effectively, allowing users to leverage its improved interface for managing both private and public cloud environments with greater ease and efficiency.

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

Skyline is a little different because there's no helm integration. Given this difference the deployment is far simpler, and all secrets can be managed in one object.

kubectl --namespace openstack \
        create secret generic skyline-apiserver-secrets \
        --type Opaque \
        --from-literal=service-username="skyline" \
        --from-literal=service-password="$(< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Za-z0-9 | head -c${1:-32};echo;)" \
        --from-literal=service-domain="service" \
        --from-literal=service-project="service" \
        --from-literal=service-project-domain="service" \
        --from-literal=db-endpoint="mariadb-cluster-primary.openstack.svc.cluster.local" \
        --from-literal=db-name="skyline" \
        --from-literal=db-username="skyline" \
        --from-literal=db-password="$(< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Za-z0-9 | head -c${1:-32};echo;)" \
        --from-literal=secret-key="$(< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Za-z0-9 | head -c${1:-32};echo;)" \
        --from-literal=keystone-endpoint="$(kubectl --namespace openstack get secret keystone-keystone-admin -o jsonpath='{.data.OS_AUTH_URL}' | base64 -d)" \
        --from-literal=keystone-username="skyline" \
        --from-literal=default-region="RegionOne" \
        --from-literal=prometheus_basic_auth_password="" \
        --from-literal=prometheus_basic_auth_user="" \
        --from-literal=prometheus_enable_basic_auth="false" \
        --from-literal=prometheus_endpoint="http://kube-prometheus-stack-prometheus.prometheus.svc.cluster.local:9090"

Note

All the configuration is in this one secret, so be sure to set your entries accordingly.

Run the deployment

Tip

Pause for a moment to consider if you will be wanting to access Skyline via the gateway-api controller over a specific FQDN. If so, adjust the gateway api definitions to suit your needs. For more information view Gateway API...

kubectl --namespace openstack apply -k /etc/genestack/kustomize/skyline/overlay

Demo

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