cloudstack/ui

CloudStack UI

A modern role-based progressive CloudStack UI based on Vue.js and Ant Design.

Getting Started

Install node: (Debian/Ubuntu)

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_24.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
# Or use distro provided: sudo apt-get install npm nodejs

Install node: (CentOS/Fedora/RHEL)

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_24.x | sudo bash -
sudo yum install nodejs

Install node: (Mac OS)

brew install node@24

Optionally, you may also install system-wide dev tools:

sudo npm install -g @vue/cli npm-check-updates

Development

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/apache/cloudstack.git
cd cloudstack/ui
npm install

Override the default CS_URL to a running CloudStack management server:

cp .env.local.example .env.local
Change the `CS_URL` in the `.env.local` file

To configure https, you may use .env.local.https.example.

To use the community Simulator QA server you can do this:

echo "CS_URL=https://qa.cloudstack.cloud" > .env.local

This may be required for newer npm versions:

export NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider

Build and run:

npm run serve
# Or run: npm start

Upgrade dependencies to the latest versions:

ncu -u

Run Lint and Unit Tests:

npm run lint
npm run test:unit

Fix issues and vulnerabilities:

npm audit

A basic development guide and explanation of the basic components can be found here

Production

Fetch dependencies and build:

npm install
npm run build

This creates a static webpack application in dist/, which can then be served from any web server or CloudStack management server (jetty).

To use CloudStack management server (jetty), you may copy the built UI to the webapp directory on the management server host. For example:

npm install
npm run build
cd dist
mkdir -p /usr/share/cloudstack-management/webapp/
cp -vr . /usr/share/cloudstack-management/webapp/
# Access UI at {management-server}:8080/client in browser

If the webapp directory is changed, please change the webapp.dir in the /etc/cloudstack/management/server.properties and restart the management server host.

To use a separate webserver, note that the API server is accessed through the path /client, which needs be forwarded to an actual CloudStack instance.

For example, a simple way to serve UI with nginx can be implemented with the following nginx configuration (to be put into /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf or similar):

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;
    location / {
        # /src/ui/dist contains the built UI webpack
        root   /src/ui/dist;
        index  index.html;
    }
    location /client/ {
        # http://127.0.0.1:800 should be replaced your CloudStack management
        # server's actual URI
        proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }
}

Docker

A production-ready Docker container can also be built with the provided Dockerfile and build script.

Make sure Docker is installed, then run:

bash docker.sh

Change the example configuration in nginx/default.conf according to your needs.

Run UI:

docker run -ti --rm -p 8080:80 -v $(pwd)/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d:ro cloudstack-ui:latest

Packaging

The following is tested to work on any Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 base installation or docker container:

# Install nodejs (lts)
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs debhelper rpm
# Install build tools
npm install -g @vue/cli webpack eslint
# Clone this repository and run package.sh
cd <cloned-repository>/packaging
bash -x package.sh

Documentation

• Vue.js Guide: https://vuejs.org/guide/
• Vue Ant Design: https://www.antdv.com/docs/vue/introduce/
• UI Developer Docs
• JavaScript ES6 Reference: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/es6/
• Introduction to ES6: https://scrimba.com/g/gintrotoes6

Attributions

The UI uses the following:

• Vue.js
• Ant Design Spec
• Ant Design Vue
• Ant Design Pro Vue
• Fontawesome
• Icons by Iconka

History

The modern UI, originally called Primate, was created by Rohit Yadav over several weekends during late 2018 and early 2019. During ApacheCon CCCUS19, on 9th September 2019, Primate was introduced and demoed as part of the talk Modern UI for CloudStack (video). Primate was accepted by the Apache CloudStack project on 21 Oct 2019. The original repo was merged with the main apache/cloudstack repo on 20 Jan 2021.

License

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.