The API server for the OpenShift web console, part of the OpenShift application platform.

The web console server runs as a pod on the platform. The OpenShift master proxies requests from the web console context root, typically /console/, to the server running in the pod. The pod then serves the static HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files that make up the console.

The web console assets themselves are developed in the origin-web-console repository. They are included in the web console server binary using go-bindata.

To build the binary, run

$ make

To build the RPM and images, run

$ make build-images

If you are running on a non-Linux platform, you can build the images in a container with this command

$ OS_BUILD_ENV_PRESERVE=_output/local/bin hack/env make build-images

If you use openshift-ansible or run oc cluster up, the console will be installed for you. If you start OpenShift another way, you'll need to install the console template.

Clone the origin repository and edit the file install/origin-web-console/console-config.yaml for your cluster. Then run the commands:

$ oc login -u system:admin
$ oc create namespace openshift-web-console
$ oc process -f install/origin-web-console/console-template.yaml -p "API_SERVER_CONFIG=$(cat install/origin-web-console/console-config.yaml)" | oc apply -n openshift-web-console -f -

See https://github.com/openshift/release/tree/master/tools/hack/golang for instructions on how to update the Go tooling used by this project.