Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Deploy your plugin on a cluster

After pushing an image with your changes to a registry, you can deploy the plugin to a cluster by using a Helm chart.

Prerequisites

You must have the location of the image containing the plugin that was previously pushed.

You can specify additional parameters based on the needs of your plugin. The values.yaml file provides a full set of supported parameters.

Procedure

To deploy your plugin to a cluster, install a Helm chart with the name of the plugin as the Helm release name into a new namespace or an existing namespace as specified by the -n command-line option. Provide the location of the image within the plugin.image parameter by using the following command:

$ helm upgrade -i  my-plugin charts/openshift-console-plugin -n my-plugin-namespace --create-namespace --set plugin.image=my-plugin-image-location

Where:

n <my-plugin-namespace>: Specifies an existing namespace to deploy your plugin into.
--create-namespace: Optional: If deploying to a new namespace, use this parameter.
--set plugin.image=my-plugin-image-location: Specifies the location of the image within the plugin.image parameter.

If you are deploying on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 and later, it is recommended to exclude configurations related to pod security by adding the parameter --set plugin.securityContext.enabled=false.

Optional: You can specify any additional parameters by using the set of supported parameters in the charts/openshift-console-plugin/values.yaml file.

plugin:
  name: ""
  description: ""
  image: ""
  imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
  replicas: 2
  port: 9443
  securityContext:
    enabled: true
  podSecurityContext:
    enabled: true
    runAsNonRoot: true
    seccompProfile:
      type: RuntimeDefault
  containerSecurityContext:
    enabled: true
    allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
    capabilities:
      drop:
        - ALL
  resources:
    requests:
      cpu: 10m
      memory: 50Mi
  basePath: /
  certificateSecretName: ""
  serviceAccount:
    create: true
    annotations: {}
    name: ""
  patcherServiceAccount:
    create: true
    annotations: {}
    name: ""
  jobs:
    patchConsoles:
      enabled: true
      image: "registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-tools-rhel8@sha256:e44074f21e0cca6464e50cb6ff934747e0bd11162ea01d522433a1a1ae116103"
      podSecurityContext:
        enabled: true
        runAsNonRoot: true
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault
      containerSecurityContext:
        enabled: true
        allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
        capabilities:
          drop:
            - ALL
      resources:
        requests:
          cpu: 10m
          memory: 50Mi

Verification

View the list of enabled plugins by navigating from Administration → Cluster Settings → Configuration → Console operator.openshift.io → Console plugins or by visiting the Overview page.

It can take a few minutes for the new plugin configuration to appear. If you do not see your plugin, you might need to refresh your browser if the plugin was recently enabled. If you receive any errors at runtime, check the JS console in browser developer tools to look for any errors in your plugin code.