--- title: Ceph Dashboard --- The dashboard is a very helpful tool to give you an overview of the status of your Ceph cluster, including overall health, status of the mon quorum, status of the mgr, osd, and other Ceph daemons, view pools and PG status, show logs for the daemons, and more. Rook makes it simple to enable the dashboard. ![The Ceph dashboard](ceph-dashboard/ceph-dashboard.png) ## Enable the Ceph Dashboard The [dashboard](https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/mgr/dashboard/) can be enabled with settings in the CephCluster CRD. The CephCluster CRD must have the dashboard `enabled` setting set to `true`. This is the default setting in the example manifests. ```yaml [...] spec: dashboard: enabled: true ``` The Rook operator will enable the ceph-mgr dashboard module. A service object will be created to expose that port inside the Kubernetes cluster. Rook will enable port 8443 for https access. This example shows that port 8443 was configured. ```console $ kubectl -n rook-ceph get service NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE rook-ceph-mgr ClusterIP 10.108.111.192 9283/TCP 3h rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard ClusterIP 10.110.113.240 8443/TCP 3h ``` The first service is for reporting the [Prometheus metrics](ceph-monitoring.md), while the latter service is for the dashboard. If you are on a node in the cluster, you will be able to connect to the dashboard by using either the DNS name of the service at `https://rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard-https:8443` or by connecting to the cluster IP, in this example at `https://10.110.113.240:8443`. ### Login Credentials After you connect to the dashboard you will need to login for secure access. Rook creates a default user named `admin` and generates a secret called `rook-ceph-dashboard-password` in the namespace where the Rook Ceph cluster is running. To retrieve the generated password, you can run the following: ```console kubectl -n rook-ceph get secret rook-ceph-dashboard-password -o jsonpath="{['data']['password']}" | base64 --decode && echo ``` ## Configure the Dashboard The following dashboard configuration settings are supported: ```yaml spec: dashboard: urlPrefix: /ceph-dashboard port: 8443 ssl: true ``` * `urlPrefix` If you are accessing the dashboard via a reverse proxy, you may wish to serve it under a URL prefix. To get the dashboard to use hyperlinks that include your prefix, you can set the `urlPrefix` setting. * `port` The port that the dashboard is served on may be changed from the default using the `port` setting. The corresponding K8s service exposing the port will automatically be updated. * `ssl` The dashboard may be served without SSL (useful for when you deploy the dashboard behind a proxy already served using SSL) by setting the `ssl` option to be false. ## Visualization of 'Physical Disks' section in the dashboard Information about physical disks is available only in [Rook host clusters](../../CRDs/Cluster/host-cluster.md). The Rook manager module is required by the dashboard to obtain the information about physical disks, but it is disabled by default. Before it is enabled, the dashboard 'Physical Disks' section will show an error message. To prepare the Rook manager module to be used in the dashboard, modify your Ceph Cluster CRD: ```yaml mgr: modules: - name: rook enabled: true ``` And apply the changes: ```console $ kubectl apply -f cluster.yaml ``` Once the Rook manager module is enabled as the orchestrator backend, there are two settings required for showing disk information: * `ROOK_ENABLE_DISCOVERY_DAEMON`: Set to `true` to provide the dashboard the information about physical disks. The default is `false`. * `ROOK_DISCOVER_DEVICES_INTERVAL`: The interval for changes to be refreshed in the set of physical disks in the cluster. The default is `60` minutes. Modify the operator.yaml, and apply the changes: ```console $ kubectl apply -f operator.yaml ``` ## Viewing the Dashboard External to the Cluster Commonly you will want to view the dashboard from outside the cluster. For example, on a development machine with the cluster running inside minikube you will want to access the dashboard from the host. There are several ways to expose a service that will depend on the environment you are running in. You can use an [Ingress Controller](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/) or [other methods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#publishing-services-service-types) for exposing services such as NodePort, LoadBalancer, or ExternalIPs. ### Node Port The simplest way to expose the service in minikube or similar environment is using the NodePort to open a port on the VM that can be accessed by the host. To create a service with the NodePort, save this yaml as `dashboard-external-https.yaml`. ```yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard-external-https namespace: rook-ceph labels: app: rook-ceph-mgr rook_cluster: rook-ceph spec: ports: - name: dashboard port: 8443 protocol: TCP targetPort: 8443 selector: app: rook-ceph-mgr rook_cluster: rook-ceph mgr_role: active sessionAffinity: None type: NodePort ``` Now create the service: ```console kubectl create -f dashboard-external-https.yaml ``` You will see the new service `rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard-external-https` created: ```console $ kubectl -n rook-ceph get service NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE rook-ceph-mgr ClusterIP 10.108.111.192 9283/TCP 4h rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard ClusterIP 10.110.113.240 8443/TCP 4h rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard-external-https NodePort 10.101.209.6 8443:31176/TCP 4h ``` In this example, port `31176` will be opened to expose port `8443` from the ceph-mgr pod. Find the ip address of the VM. If using minikube, you can run `minikube ip` to find the ip address. Now you can enter the URL in your browser such as `https://192.168.99.110:31176` and the dashboard will appear. ### Load Balancer If you have a cluster on a cloud provider that supports load balancers, you can create a service that is provisioned with a public hostname. The yaml is the same as `dashboard-external-https.yaml` except for the following property: ```yaml spec: [...] type: LoadBalancer ``` Now create the service: ```console kubectl create -f dashboard-loadbalancer.yaml ``` You will see the new service `rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard-loadbalancer` created: ```console $ kubectl -n rook-ceph get service NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE rook-ceph-mgr ClusterIP 172.30.11.40 9283/TCP 4h rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard ClusterIP 172.30.203.185 8443/TCP 4h rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard-loadbalancer LoadBalancer 172.30.27.242 a7f23e8e2839511e9b7a5122b08f2038-1251669398.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com 8443:32747/TCP 4h ``` Now you can enter the URL in your browser such as `https://a7f23e8e2839511e9b7a5122b08f2038-1251669398.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com:8443` and the dashboard will appear. ### Ingress Controller If you have a cluster with an [nginx Ingress Controller](https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/) and a Certificate Manager (e.g. [cert-manager](https://cert-manager.readthedocs.io/)) then you can create an Ingress like the one below. This example achieves four things: 1. Exposes the dashboard on the Internet (using a reverse proxy) 2. Issues a valid TLS Certificate for the specified domain name (using [ACME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Certificate_Management_Environment)) 3. Tells the reverse proxy that the dashboard itself uses HTTPS 4. Tells the reverse proxy that the dashboard itself does not have a valid certificate (it is self-signed) ```yaml apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard namespace: rook-ceph annotations: kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true" nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: "HTTPS" nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/server-snippet: | proxy_ssl_verify off; spec: ingressClassName: "nginx" tls: - hosts: - rook-ceph.example.com secretName: rook-ceph.example.com rules: - host: rook-ceph.example.com http: paths: - path: / pathType: Prefix backend: service: name: rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard port: name: https-dashboard ``` Customise the Ingress resource to match your cluster. Replace the example domain name `rook-ceph.example.com` with a domain name that will resolve to your Ingress Controller (creating the DNS entry if required). Now create the Ingress: ```console kubectl create -f dashboard-ingress-https.yaml ``` You will see the new Ingress `rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard` created: ```console $ kubectl -n rook-ceph get ingress NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE rook-ceph-mgr-dashboard rook-ceph.example.com 80, 443 5m ``` And the new Secret for the TLS certificate: ```console kubectl -n rook-ceph get secret rook-ceph.example.com NAME TYPE DATA AGE rook-ceph.example.com kubernetes.io/tls 2 4m ``` You can now browse to `https://rook-ceph.example.com/` to log into the dashboard.