Udash

Important

This project is still in a very early stage, more to come

Description

Udash is an Updatecli backend application. Its mission is to visualize Updatecli pipeline report and to provide various insights such as Git repositories "update" state.

Pipeline Report

Updatecli can be configured to upload pipeline reports after each execution. The goal is to have a central place to visualize all pipelines for a specific project.

Insight

Insight reuse pipeline report to provide a visualization per theme such as the state for all dependencies for a specific git repository.

Still work in progress

Architecture

Requirements

Udash application requires a postgresql database to store the various pipeline reports, and an oauth provider to handle authorization.

Postgresql Database

OAuth provider

The oauth provider must allow the PKCE flow.

• Auth0 (tested)

• GitHub Not supported yet

• GitLab

• Dex

• Keycloak

Udash API

Option

Udash must be configured via a configuration file, and some settings can be overridden by environment variables

Config File

The configuration file must be one of ["/etc/udash/config.yaml", "_{/.udash/config.yaml","}/config.yaml"]

    server:
      auth:
        #  If mode is unset then authentication is disabled
        mode: "oauth"
        issuer: "auth0 auth URL"
        audience: "udash URL"
    database:
      # uri defines the postgresql URI used to connect with its database
      uri: "postgresql URI"

Environment

• UDASH_AUTH_MODE: Enable authentication Accept value ["","none","oauth"]

• UDASH_AUTH_ISSUER: Define oauth domain url require UDASH_AUTH_MODE set to "oauth"

• UDASH_AUTH_AUDIENCE: Define oauth audience require UDASH_AUTH_MODE set to "oauth"

• UDASH_DB_URI: Define the postgresql URI

Udash Frontend

Option

Even though the Udash frontend is a client-side javascript application, it expects two configuration files that must exist in the public directory.

• config.js

const config = (() => {
  return {
    "OAUTH_DOMAIN": "updatecli.example.oauth.com",
    "OAUTH_CLIENTID": "86FVLxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "OAUTH_AUDIENCE": "http://app.updatecli.io/api"
  };
})();

config.js is used by the frontend application for the login

• config.json

{
  "OAUTH_DOMAIN": "updatecli.example.oauth.com",
  "OAUTH_CLIENTID": "86FVLxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "OAUTH_AUDIENCE": "http://app.updatecli.io/api"
}

config.json is used by the Updatecli application to retrieve oauth setting when running:

updatecli login http://app.updatecli.io

Updatecli

Updatecli is expected to run as usual from CI environment.

But it must be authenticated before uploading any reports, by running:

updatecli login "https://app.updatecli.io" --experimental

Then any apply/diff command will upload pipeline reports

Demo

You can try Udash yourself by running the following steps:

1. Start Udash

Udash is composed of a Postgresql database, an Updatecli API, and an Updatecli Frontend.

Using Docker, you can start all services with the following command:

docker compose --file docker-compose.example.yaml up

Please keep in mind that no authentication is enabled in this example.

Udash is now available on udash.localhost and the API on udash.localhost/api

2. Configure Updatecli

Once Udash is running, you can configure Updatecli to upload reports to Udash by running:

updatecli udash login --api-url http://udash.localhost/api http://udash.localhost --experimental

3. Run Updatecli

You can now run Updatecli as usual, and it will upload the pipeline report to Udash.

Please be aware that currently the UI is designed to visualize pipelines per git repository so without a scmid pipelines will be hard to discover.

Links

• Updatecli

• Udash Frontend

• Helm Chart