IM-Dashboard

Infrastructure Manager - Simple Graphical UI (based on INDIGO PaaS Orchestrator Dashboard)

Functionalities:

• OIDC authentication
• Display user's infrastructures
• Display infrastructure details, template and log
• Delete infrastructure
• Create new infrastructure

The im-dashboard is a Python application built with the Flask microframework; Flask-Dance is used for Openid-Connect/OAuth2 integration.

The docker image uses Gunicorn as WSGI HTTP server to serve the Flask Application.

Achievements

This software has received a gold badge according to the Software Quality Baseline criteria defined by the EOSC-Synergy project.

How to deploy the dashboard

Register a client in an OIDC server with the following properties:

• redirect uri: https://<DASHBOARD_HOST>:<PORT>/login/oidc/authorized
• scopes: 'openid', 'email', 'profile', 'offline_access' ('eduperson_entitlement' in EGI Check-In optional)
• introspection endpoint enabled

Create the config.json file (see the example) setting the following variables:

Parameter name	Description	Mandatory (Y/N)	Default Value
OIDC_CLIENT_ID	OIDC client ID	Y	N/A
OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET	OIDC client Secret	Y	N/A
OIDC_BASE_URL	OIDC service URL	Y	N/A
OIDC_GROUP_MEMBERSHIP	List of OIDC groups to be checked for allowing access	N	[]
OIDC_SCOPES	OIDC scopes	Y	N/A
TOSCA_TEMPLATES_DIR	Absolute path where the TOSCA templates are stored	Y	N/A
TOSCA_PARAMETERS_DIR	Absolute path where the TOSCA parameters are stored	Y	N/A
IM_URL	Infrastructure Manager service URL	Y	N/A
IM_TIMEOUT	Infrastructure Manager service calls timeout	N	60
SUPPORT_EMAIL	Email address that will be shown in case of errors	N	""
SUPPORT_LINK	Link that will be shown in case of errors	N	""
SUPPORT_LINK_NAME	Text Link that that will be shown in case of errors	N	""
EXTERNAL_LINKS	List of dictionaries ({ "url": "example.com" , "menu_item_name": "Example link"}) specifying links that will be shown under the "External Links" menu	N	[]
LOG_LEVEL	Set Logging level	N	info
DB_URL	URL to the DB to store dashboard data	N	sqlite:///creds.db
ANALYTICS_TAG	Google Analytic Tag	N	""
STATIC_SITES	List of static sites added to the AppDB ones ([{"name": "static_site_name", "url": "static_site_url", "id": "static_id", "vos": {"vo": "stprojectid"}}])	N	[]
STATIC_SITES_URL	URL of a JSON file with the list of static sites added to the AppDB ones	N	""
APPDB_CACHE_TIMEOUT	AppDB cache TTL	N	3600
CHECK_TOSCA_CHANGES_TIME	Interval to look for changes in TOSCA templates	N	120
VAULT_URL	Vault service URL to store Cloud credentials	N	None

You need to run the IM dashboard on HTTPS (otherwise you will get an error); you can choose between

• enabling the HTTPS support
• using an HTTPS proxy

Details are provided in the next paragraphs.

Enabling Credentials encryption

To enable the encryption of the Cloud providers credentials (sensitive data), you have to set the CREDS_KEY environment varible with a valid key used to encrypt/decrypt de data. To get a valid one you can use this python code (you will nedd Cryptography library):

from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
key = Fernet.generate_key()
print(key.decode())

TOSCA Template Metadata

The IM dashboard can exploit some optional information provided in the TOSCA templates for rendering the cards describing the type of applications/services or virtual infrastructure that a user can deploy.

In particular, the following tags are supported:

Tag name	Description
description	Used for showing the card description
metadata.display_name	Used for the card title. If not pro
metadata.icon .	Used for showing the card image. If no image URL is provided, the dashboard will load this icon.
metadata.display_name	Used for the card title. If not provided, the template name will be used
metadata.tag	Used for the card ribbon (displayed on the right bottom corner)

Example of template metadata:

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

imports:
  - indigo_custom_types: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indigo-dc/tosca-types/v4.0.0/custom_types.yaml

description: Deploy a Mesos Cluster (with Marathon and Chronos frameworks) on top of Virtual machines

metadata:
  display_name: Deploy a Mesos cluster
  icon: https://indigo-paas.cloud.ba.infn.it/public/images/apache-mesos-icon.png

topology_template:

....

You can find the set of available TOSCA templates in the following repo.

Enabling HTTPS

You would need to provide

• a pair certificate/key that the container will read from the container paths /certs/cert.pem and /certs/key.pem;
• the environment variable ENABLE_HTTPS set to True

Run the docker container:

docker run -d -p 443:5001 --name='im-dashboard' \
           -e ENABLE_HTTPS=True \
           -v $PWD/cert.pem:/certs/cert.pem \
           -v $PWD/key.pem:/certs/key.pem \
           -v $PWD/config.json:/app/app/config.json \
           -v $PWD/tosca-templates:/opt/tosca-templates \
           grycap/im-dashboard:latest

Access the dashboard at https://<DASHBOARD_HOST>/

Using an HTTPS Proxy

Example of configuration for nginx:

server {
      listen         80;
      server_name    YOUR_SERVER_NAME;
      return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
  listen        443 ssl;
  server_name   YOUR_SERVER_NAME;
  access_log    /var/log/nginx/proxy-paas.access.log  combined;

  ssl on;
  ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
  ssl_certificate           /etc/nginx/cert.pem;
  ssl_certificate_key       /etc/nginx/key.pem;
  ssl_trusted_certificate   /etc/nginx/trusted_ca_cert.pem;

  location / {
                # Pass the request to Gunicorn
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5001/;

                proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto https;
                proxy_set_header        Host $http_host;
                proxy_redirect          http:// https://;
                proxy_buffering         off;
  }

}

Run the docker container:

docker run -d -p 5001:5001 --name='im-dashboard' \
           -v $PWD/config.json:/app/app/config.json \
           -v $PWD/tosca-templates:/opt/tosca-templates \
           grycap/im-dashboard:latest

⚠️ Remember to update the redirect uri in the OIDC client to https://<PROXY_HOST>/login/oidc/authorized

Access the dashboard at https://<PROXY_HOST>/

Performance tuning

You can change the number of gunicorn worker processes using the environment variable WORKERS. E.g. if you want to use 2 workers, launch the container with the option -e WORKERS=2 Check the documentation for ideas on tuning this parameter.