chrismeyersfsu / ansible-hub-ui

Ansible Automation Hub UI

Ansible Automation Hub UI

Frontend for Ansible Automation Hub. The backend for this project can be found here

Setting up Your Dev Environment

This app can be developed in standalone mode or insights mode. Insights mode compiles the app to be run on the Red Hat cloud services platform (insights) and requires access to the Red Hat VPN as well as the insights proxy. Standalone mode only requires a running instance of the galaxy API for the UI to connect to.

Develop in Standalone Mode

1. Clone the galaxy_ng repo and follow the instructions for starting up the API.
2. Install node. Node v13+ are known to work. Older versions may work as well.
3. npm install
4. npm run start-standalone

The app will run on http://localhost:8002 and proxy requests for api/automation-hub to the api on http://localhost:5001.

Develop in Insights Mode

NOTE: This option is only available to Red Hat employees who have access to the Red Hat VPN. Community contributors should follow setup for standalone mode

To enable insights mode set DEPLOYMENT_MODE: 'insights' in custom.dev.config.js.

This app is part of the Red Hat cloud platform. Because of that the app needs to be loaded within the context of cloud.redhat.com. This is done by accessing the app via the insights-proxy project.

Set up Insights Proxy

• Install docker
• Clone this repo [email protected]:RedHatInsights/insights-proxy.git to your machine
• Inside the insights-proxy/ directory on your computer, run the following scripts
  • npm install
  • bash scripts/update.sh This updates the insights proxy container to the latest version.
  • sudo bash scripts/patch-etc-hosts.sh This adds the following entries to your /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 prod.foo.redhat.com
127.0.0.1 stage.foo.redhat.com
127.0.0.1 qa.foo.redhat.com
127.0.0.1 ci.foo.redhat.com

Once all this is done, you can launch insights-proxy with this command:

SPANDX_CONFIG=/path/to/ansible-hub-ui/profiles/local-frontend-and-api.js bash /path/to/insights-proxy/scripts/run.sh

This should launch insights-proxy, which will redirect the routes defined in profiles/local-frontend-and-api.js to the automation hub UI running locally on your machine.

NOTE

If you are on a Mac, you might have to make a small change to the insights-proxy/scripts/run.sh script. Update this line

REALPATH=`python2 -c 'import os,sys;print os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1])' $SPANDX_CONFIG`

to use python instead of python2.

Run Automation Hub

Once the insights proxy is running, open a new terminal, navigate to your local copy of ansible-hub-ui and execute

1. npm install
2. npm run start

To access the app, visit: https://ci.foo.redhat.com:1337/insights/automation-hub

Testing

• npm run verify will run linters and tests
• Travis is used to test the build for this code.
  • You are always notified on failed builds
  • You are only notified on successful builds if the build before it failed
  • By default, both push events as well as pull_request events send notifications
  • Travis is defaulted to notify #insights-bots

Deploying

• The Platform team is using Travis to deploy the application
  • The Platform team will help you set up the Travis instance if this is the route you are wanting to take

How it works

• any push to the {REPO} master branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build ci-beta branch
• any push to the {REPO} master-stable branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build ci-stable branch
• any push to the {REPO} qa-beta branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build qa-beta branch
• any push to the {REPO} qa-stable branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build qa-stable branch
• any push to the {REPO} prod-beta branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build prod-beta branch
• any push to the {REPO} prod-stable branch will deploy to a {REPO}-build prod-stable branch
• Pull requests (based on master) will not be pushed to {REPO}-build master branch
  • If the PR is accepted and merged, master will be rebuilt and will deploy to {REPO}-build ci-beta branch

Patternfly

• This project imports Patternfly components:
  • Patternfly React

Insights Components

Insights Platform will deliver components and static assets through npm. ESI tags are used to import the chroming which takes care of the header, sidebar, and footer.

Technologies

React

• High-Order Component

  • a higher-order component is a function that takes a component and returns a new component
    • Ex) asyncComponent.js

• Smart/Presentational Components

  • Smart components have access to the redux state
  • Presentational components do not have access to the redux state
  • Smart Components === insights-frontend/app/js/states
  • Presentational Components === insights-frontend/app/js/components

• State and lifecycle within class components

  • article contains:
    • Adding Lifecycle Methods to a Class
    • Adding Local State to a Class
    • State Updates May Be Asynchronous
    • State Updates are Merged

React-router-dom

When setting up the routes, the page content is wrapped with a .page__{pageName} class, applied to the #root ID that is determined by the rootClass in the Routes.js which lets you easily reference the page in the styling.

• BrowserRouter
  • A <Router> that uses the HTML5 history API (pushState, replaceState and the popstate event) to keep your UI in sync with the URL
• Route
• Switch
  • Renders the first child <Route> or <Redirect> that matches the location.
• Redirect
  • navigate to a new location
• withRouter
  • passes updated match, location, and history props to the wrapped component whenever it renders