The OpenShift Container Platform web console is available after your Connectivity Link installation on OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 and newer is complete, but you must enable the plugin.

OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 and newer

After you enable the web console, you can use it to see the status of your Gateway and route objects, create and manage policies, and create and manage APIs.

OpenShift Container Platform 4.19

You can use the web console to see the status of your Gateway, route objects, and policies. You can create Gateway objects, routes, and policies, but you cannot manage APIs.

Important

UI elements are either displayed or hidden, and either active or disabled, based on your Kubernetes role-based-access (RBAC) permissions. For example:

  • Cluster administrators are cluster-scoped and can see all of the features in the web console.

  • Developers and API owners are namespace-scoped. Developers and API owners must configure roles to grant access to specific workflows, such as browsing the API catalog, requesting API keys, or approving access requests.

In the navigation menu, use the Connectivity Link section to select one of the following pages as available for your role:

Overview: A dashboard showing Gateway objects, policies and their status, and HTTPRoute and GRPCRoutes across the cluster. If you have permissions, you can also create, edit, and delete custom resources (CRs), including Gateway CRs.

Policies: A tabbed list of all Connectivity Link policy types, such as AuthPolicy, RateLimitPolicy, DNSPolicy, and TLSPolicy CRs. If you have permissions, you can also create, edit, and delete policy CRs.

API Products: You can search for, create, and edit API products according to your permissions.

Policy Topology: A visual graph of the relationships between Gateway and HTTPRoute objects and the policies attached to them.

If you are on OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 or newer, on the navigation menu, use the Connectivity Link API Catalog section to select one of the following pages as available for your role:

API Key Approvals: A list of API key requests and their status.

My API Keys: A list of your approved API keys.

You can use the Connectivity Link dynamic plugin to view and manage your gateways and policies in the OpenShift Container Platform web console. You must perform these steps on each OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

Prerequisites

  • You are using a supported configuration of OpenShift Container Platform and required components.

  • You are logged into OpenShift Container Platform as a cluster administrator.

  • You are logged into the OpenShift Container Platform web console with administrator access.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation menu, select the Administrator perspective.

  2. Click Home > Overview.

  3. In the Status panel, click Dynamic Plugins > View all.

  4. On the Console plugins tab, find the kuadrant-console-plugin entry in the table, which should be listed but disabled.

  5. In the kuadrant-console-plugin row, click Disabled.

  6. Select the Enable option, and click Save.

  7. Wait for the plugin status to change to Loaded.

Verification

  1. Refresh the OpenShift Container Platform web console. A new Connectivity Link menu item is displayed in the navigation sidebar.

    1. You can click Connectivity Link > Overview to explore the available resources and to get started with creating a Gateway and configuring policies in the OpenShift Container Platform web console.

Next steps

  • Create a Gateway object.

  • Create policies.

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