Chapter 5. Customizing the Dashboard
The OpenStack dashboard for Red Hat OpenStack Platform uses a default theme (RCUE
), which is stored inside the horizon
container. You can customize the look and feel of the OpenStack dashboard by adding your own theme to the container image and customizing certain dashboard parameters. This customization allows you to modify the following elements:
- Logo
- Site colors
- Stylesheets
- HTML title
- Site branding link
- Help URL
To ensure continued support for modified OpenStack Platform container images, the resulting images must comply with the "Red Hat Container Support Policy".
5.1. Obtaining the horizon container image
You must obtain a copy of the horizon container image. You can pull this image either into the undercloud or a separate client system running podman
. To pull the horizon container image, run the following command:
$ sudo podman pull registry.redhat.io/rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon
You can now use this image as a basis for a modified image.
5.2. Obtaining the RCUE theme
The horizon
container image is configured to use the Red Hat branded RCUE theme by default. You can use this theme as a basis for your own theme and extract a copy from the container image.
Make a directory for your theme:
$ mkdir ~/horizon-themes $ cd ~/horizon-themes
Start a container that executes a null loop. For example, run the following command:
$ sudo podman run --rm -d --name horizon-temp registry.redhat.io/rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon /usr/bin/sleep infinity
Copy the RCUE theme from the container to your local directory:
$ sudo podman cp -a horizon-temp:/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/themes/rcue .
Kill the container:
$ sudo podman kill horizon-temp
You should now have a local copy of the RCUE theme.
5.3. Creating your own theme based on RCUE
To use RCUE as a basis, copy the entire RCUE theme directory rcue
to a new location, for example mytheme
:
$ cp -r rcue mytheme
To change a theme’s colors, graphics, fonts, among others, edit the files in mytheme
. When editing this theme, check for all instances of rcue
and ensure you change them to the new mytheme
name. This includes paths, files, and directories.
5.4. Creating a file to enable your theme and customize the dashboard
To enable your theme in the dashboard container, you must create a file to override the AVAILABLE_THEMES
parameter. Create a new file called _12_mytheme_theme.py
in the horizon-themes
directory and add the following content:
AVAILABLE_THEMES = [('mytheme', 'My Custom Theme', 'themes/mytheme')]
The 12
in the file name ensures this file is loaded after the RCUE file, which uses 11
, and overrides the AVAILABLE_THEMES
parameter.
You can also set custom parameters in the _12_mytheme_theme.py
file. For example:
- SITE_BRANDING
Set the HTML title that appears at the top of the browser window. For example:
SITE_BRANDING = "Example, Inc. Cloud"
- SITE_BRANDING_LINK
Changes the hyperlink of the theme’s logo, which normally redirects to
horizon:user_home
by default. For example:SITE_BRANDING_LINK = "http://example.com"
5.5. Generating a modified horizon image
Once your custom theme is ready, you can create a new container image that enables and uses your theme. Use a dockerfile
to generate a new container image using the original horizon
image as a basis. The following is an example of a dockerfile
:
FROM registry.redhat.io/rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon MAINTAINER Acme LABEL name="rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme" vendor="Acme" version="0" release="1" COPY mytheme /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/themes/mytheme COPY _12_mytheme_theme.py /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.d/_12_mytheme_theme.py RUN sudo chown horizon:horizon /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.d/_12_mytheme_theme.py
Save this file in your horizon-themes
directory as dockerfile
.
To use the dockerfile
to generate the new image, run the following command:
sudo podman build . -t "192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1"
The -t
option names and tags the resulting image. It uses the following syntax:
[LOCATION]/[NAME]:[TAG]
- LOCATION
- This is usually the location of the container registry that the overcloud eventually pulls uses to pull images. In this instance, you will push this image to the undercloud’s container registry, so set this to the undercloud IP and port.
- NAME
-
For consistency, this is usually the same name as the original container image followed by the name of your theme. In this case, it is
rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme
. - TAG
-
The tag for the image. Red Hat uses the
version
andrelease
labels as a basis for this tag and it is usually a good idea to follow this convention. If you generate a new version of this image, increment therelease
(e.g.0-2
).
Push the resulting image to the undercloud’s container registry:
$ podman push 192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1
If updating or upgrading Red Hat OpenStack Platform, you must reapply the theme to the new horizon
image and push a new version of the modified image to the undercloud.
5.6. Using the modified container image in the overcloud
To use the resulting container image with your overcloud deployment, edit the environment file that contains the list of container image locations. This environment file is usually named overcloud-images.yaml
.
Edit the DockerHorizonConfigImage
and DockerHorizonImage
parameters to point to your modified container image. For example:
parameter_defaults: ... DockerHorizonConfigImage: 192.0.2.5:8787/rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1 DockerHorizonImage: 192.0.2.5:8787/rhosp15-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1 ...
Save this new version of the overcloud-images.yaml
file.
5.7. Editing puppet parameters
The director provides a set of horizon parameters you can modify using environment files. You can also use the ExtraConfig
hook to set Puppet hieradata. For example, the default help URL points to https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-openstack-platform. You can modify this URL with the following environment file content:
parameter_defaults: ExtraConfig: horizon::help_url: "http://openstack.example.com"
5.8. Deploying an overcloud with a customized Dashboard
To deploy the overcloud with your dashboard customizations, include the following environment files:
- The environment file with your modified container image locations.
- The environment file with additional dashboard modifications.
- Any other environment files relevant to your overcloud’s configuration.
For example:
$ openstack overcloud deploy --templates \ -e /home/stack/templates/overcloud-images.yaml \ -e /home/stack/templates/help_url.yaml \ [OTHER OPTIONS]