Installing Congress Dashboard

Congress Dashboard

Horizon Plugin for Congress

Congress Dashboard is an extension for OpenStack Dashboard that provides a UI for Congress. With congress-dashboard, a user is able to easily write the policies and rules for governance of cloud.

Enabling in DevStack

Add this repo as an external repository into your local.conf file:

[[local|localrc]]
enable_plugin congress https://github.com/openstack/congress

Manual Installation

The following below instructions assumes that Horizon is already installed and its installation folder is <horizon>. Detailed information on how to install Horizon can be found at https://docs.openstack.org/horizon/latest/contributor/quickstart.html#setup.

The installation folder of Congress Dashboard will be referred to as <congress-dashboard>.

Clone Congress-Dashboard

$ git clone https://github.com/openstack/congress-dashboard.git
$ cd congress-dashboard

Install requirements

$ sudo pip install .

Install Source code

$ sudo python setup.py install

And enable it in Horizon

$ ln -s <congress-dashboard>/congress_dashboard/enabled/_50_policy.py <horizon>/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled
$ ln -s <congress-dashboard>/congress_dashboard/enabled/_60_policies.py <horizon>/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled
$ ln -s <congress-dashboard>/congress_dashboard/enabled/_70_datasources.py <horizon>/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled
$ ln -s <congress-dashboard>/congress_dashboard/enabled/_75_monitoring.py <horizon>/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled
$ ln -s <congress-dashboard>/congress_dashboard/enabled/_80_library.py <horizon>/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled

Restart Apache server

$ sudo service apache2 restart