dashboard

Tekton Dashboard

Tekton Dashboard is a general purpose, web-based UI for Tekton Pipelines. It allows users to manage and view Tekton PipelineRuns and TaskRuns and the resources involved in their creation, execution, and completion. It also allows filtering of PipelineRuns and TaskRuns by label.

Pre-requisites

Kubernetes must be installed with version 1.15.0 or later if you want to use a version of Tekton Pipelines newer than v0.10.1.

Tekton Pipelines must be installed in order to use the Tekton Dashboard. Instructions to install Tekton Pipelines can be found here.

Which version should I use?

• Use the v0.6.0 release for Tekton Pipelines v0.11.0 (can display components from Tekton Triggers 0.3.1 and has a read-only install mode)
• Use the v0.5.3 release for Tekton Pipelines v0.10.1 (can display components from Tekton Triggers 0.3.1 and has a read-only install mode)
• Use the v0.5.2 release for Tekton Pipelines v0.10.1 (can display components from Tekton Triggers 0.2.1 and has a read-only install mode)
• Use the v0.5.0 release for Tekton Pipelines v0.10.1 (can display components from Tekton Triggers 0.1 and has a read-only install mode)
• Use the v0.4.1 release for Tekton Pipelines v0.8.0 (can display components from Tekton Triggers 0.1)
• Use the v0.2.1 release for Tekton Pipelines v0.7.0
• Use the v0.1.1 release for Tekton Pipelines v0.5.2

Install Dashboard

Installing the latest release

1. Run the kubectl apply command to install the Tekton Dashboard and its dependencies:

   kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/tektoncd/dashboard/releases/download/v0.6.0/tekton-dashboard-release.yaml
   

   Previous versions (up to 0.5.0) are available at previous/$VERSION_NUMBER/release.yaml, e.g. https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/dashboard/previous/v0.4.1/release.yaml

   As of version 0.5.0, the file name pattern is more descriptive, e.g. https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/dashboard/previous/v0.5.3/tekton-dashboard-release.yaml

2. Run the kubectl get command to monitor the Tekton Dashboard component until all of the components show a STATUS of Running:

   kubectl get pods --namespace tekton-pipelines
   

   Tip: Instead of running the kubectl get command multiple times, you can append the --watch flag to view the component's status updates in real time. Use CTRL + C to exit watch mode.

Once the dashboard STATUS is Running, the dashboard can be accessed by following instructions in the Accessing the Dashboard section.

Optionally, the dashboard can be used with the Tekton Webhooks Extension (see our Getting Started guide).

Installing a nightly build

Four nightly builds are available: (plain kube or Openshift) * (read-only or read-write):

To install your preferred flavour use one of these four commands:

kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases-nightly/dashboard/latest/tekton-dashboard-release.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases-nightly/dashboard/latest/tekton-dashboard-release-readonly.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases-nightly/dashboard/latest/openshift-tekton-dashboard-release.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases-nightly/dashboard/latest/openshift-tekton-dashboard-release-readonly.yaml

Installing from a development environment

As a developer you can install nightly builds, or a local build. Nightly builds come in the usual four flavours.

# Plain Kube
kustomize build overlays/latest | ko apply -f -
kustomize build overlays/latest-locked-down | ko apply -f -

# OpenShift
kustomize build overlays/latest-openshift --load_restrictor=LoadRestrictionsNone \
 | ko resolve -f - | kubectl apply -f - --validate=false
kustomize build overlays/latest-openshift-locked-down --load_restrictor=LoadRestrictionsNone \
 | ko resolve -f - | kubectl apply -f - --validate=false

In read-only mode, buttons and sections of the Dashboard will not be displayed (for example, you won't have the ability to create, stop, and delete PipelineRuns).

Development installation of the Dashboard uses ko:

$ docker login
$ export KO_DOCKER_REPO=docker.io/<mydockername>
$ ./install-dev.sh

The install-dev.sh script will build and push an image of the Tekton Dashboard to the Docker registry which you are logged into. Any Docker registry will do, but in this case it will push to Dockerhub. It will also build the static web content using npm scripts.

Optionally set up the Ingress endpoint

An Ingress definition is provided in the ingress directory, and this can optionally be installed and configured. If you wish to access the Tekton Dashboard, for example on your laptop that has a visible IP address, you can use the freely available nip.io service. A worked example follows.

Create the Ingress:

kubectl apply ingress/basic-dashboard-ingress.yaml

Retrieve a publicly available IP address (in this case running on a laptop connected to a public network):

ip=$(ifconfig | grep netmask | sed -n 2p | cut -d ' ' -f2)

Now modify the host property for our Ingress to use the IP obtained above, with the tekton-dashboard prefix and the .nip.io suffix:

kubectl patch ing/tekton-dashboard -n tekton-pipelines --type=json -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/rules/0/host", "value": '""tekton-dashboard.${ip}.nip.io""}]

You can then access the Tekton Dashboard at tekton-dashboard.${ip}.nip.io. This endpoint is also returned via the "get Tekton Dashboard Ingress" API.

Install on OpenShift

1. Install the Openshift Pipeline Operator from the operator hub.

2. Assuming you want to install the Dashboard into the openshift-pipelines namespace, which is the default one:

   kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/tektoncd/dashboard/releases/download/v0.6.0/openshift-tekton-dashboard-release.yaml --validate=false
   

3. Access the dashboard by determining its route with kubectl get route tekton-dashboard -n openshift-pipelines

Enable TLS for dashboard access via Ingress

Will only work in the cluster node

Pre-requisites:

1. Tekton pipelines & dashboard installed
2. dashboard repo cloned

Steps:

1. Edit ingress/ingress-https-setup.sh with all the necessary info
2. Run the script from within the dashboard repo
3. Access dashboard via https://tekton-dashboard.<IP_ADDRESS>.nip.io

Install on Minishift

Either follow the instructions for OpenShift above or use the operator install as per the instructions below.

1. Install tektoncd-pipeline-operator
2. Checkout the repository

If you want to install the Dashboard into the tekton-pipelines namespace:

• Install the Dashboard ./minishift-install-dashboard.sh

If you want to install the Dashboard into any other namespace:

• Install the Dashboard ./minishift-install-dashboard.sh -n {NAMESPACE}

1. Wait until the pod tekton-dashboard-1 is running in the namespace the Dashboard is installed into

Accessing the Dashboard

The Dashboard can be accessed through its ClusterIP Service by running kubectl proxy. Assuming tekton-pipelines is the install namespace for the Dashboard, you can access the web UI at localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/tekton-pipelines/services/tekton-dashboard:http/proxy/.

An alternative way to access the Dashboard is using kubectl port-forward e.g. if you installed the Tekton Dashboard into the tekton-pipelines namespace (which is the default) you can access the Dashboard with kubectl --namespace tekton-pipelines port-forward svc/tekton-dashboard 9097:9097 and then just open localhost:9097.

Accessing the Dashboard on Minishift

The Dashboard can be accessed by running kubectl --namespace tekton-pipelines port-forward svc/tekton-dashboard 9097:9097 If installed into a namespace other than tekton-pipelines then the Dashboard can be accessed by running kubectl --namespace $NAMESPACE port-forward svc/tekton-dashboard 9097:9097 You can access the web UI at http://localhost:9097/

Uninstalling the Dashboard on Minishift

The Dashboard can be uninstalled on Minishift by running the command ./minishift-delete-dashboard.sh Use -n {NAMESPACE} on the end of the command if installed into a namespace other than tekton-pipelines

Browser support

The Dashboard has been tested on modern evergreen browsers, and generally supports the current and previous stable versions of:

• Google Chrome (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• Mozilla Firefox (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• Apple Safari (macOS)
• Microsoft Edge (Windows)

Older versions or other browsers may work, but some features may be missing or not function as expected.

Troubleshooting

Keep in mind that When running your Tekton Pipelines, if you see a fatal: could not read Username for *GitHub repository*: No such device or address message in your failing Task logs, this indicates there is no tekton.dev/git annotated GitHub secret in use by the ServiceAccount that launched this PipelineRun. It is advised to create one through the Tekton Dashboard. The annotation will be added and the specified ServiceAccount will be patched.

Want to contribute

We are so excited to have you!

• See CONTRIBUTING.md for an overview of our processes
• See DEVELOPMENT.md for how to get started