Admin Interface for Open Balena

Open source admin interface for openbalena, a platform to deploy and manage connected devices.

Features

The goal of this project is to provide the following areas of functionality to openbalena via a web interface:

• Support for multiple organizations and users in open-balena
• Remote access to devices (ssh, vnc and http into host or containers)
• Fleet / device management (create fleets, add devices, manage variables / tags / labels)
• Support for creating and managing custom device types
• Device management dashboard
• Remote device diagnostics

Screenshots

Login Screen:

Dashboard:

Org Management:

User Management:

Fleet Management:

Device Management:

Device Dashboard (Summary):

Device Dashboard (Logs):

Device Dashboard (Connect - SSH):

Device Dashboard (Connect - Web):

Compatibility

This project is compatible with open-balena-api v0.139.0 or newer, all the way up to the current builds. See this project which has helm scripts to build a current version of open-balena including open-balena-admin and many other additional features.

Installation (Docker Compose)

Note: Skip steps 1 and 2 if you have a running instance of openbalena

1. Download open-balena

git clone https://github.com/balena-io/open-balena.git

2. Configure open-balena

open-balena/scripts/quickstart -U [email protected] -P balena

Note: When the script is complete, take note of the values of OPENBALENA_JWT_SECRET from config/activate, and OPENBALENA_API_VERSION_TAG from compose/versions

3. Download open-balena-admin

git clone https://github.com/dcaputo-harmoni/open-balena-admin.git

4. Configure open-blena-admin

open-balena-admin/scripts/quickstart -j [OPENBALENA_JWT_SECRET] -v [OPENBALENA_API_VERSION_TAG]

Note: If you are running on a domain other than openbalena.local, be sure to also add -d [DOMAIN] to the quickstart script. For a full list of quickstart configuration options, run open-balena-admin/scripts/quickstart -h.

If you are installing on the same host as open-balena, you can use these commands:

source open-balena/config/activate ; source open-balena/compose/versions
open-balena-admin/scripts/quickstart -j $OPENBALENA_JWT_SECRET \
	-v $OPENBALENA_API_VERSION_TAG -d $OPENBALENA_HOST_NAME

Note: If you did not complete steps 1 and 2 (i.e. you have a running instance of openbalena) you need to ssh into your running instance of open-balena-api, where you will find OPENBALENA_JWT_SECRET via the environment variable JSON_WEB_TOKEN_SECRET, and OPENBALENA_API_VERSION as "version" within /usr/src/app/package.json

5. Set up hostnames

If running locally, edit /etc/hosts or C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts to include:

127.0.0.1 openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 api.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 registry.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 vpn.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 s3.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 tunnel.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 admin.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 dashboard.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 postgrest.openbalena.local
127.0.0.1 remote.openbalena.local

If hosted, set up your hostnames to point to the public IP addresses of your containers as follows:

• <yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-haproxy
• api.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-haproxy
• registry.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-haproxy
• vpn.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-haproxy
• s3.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-haproxy
• tunnel.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-haproxy
• admin.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-ui, or open-balena-admin-haproxy if using K8S ingress
• dashboard.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-ui, or open-balena-admin-haproxy if using K8S ingress
• postgrest.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-postgrest, or open-balena-admin-haproxy if using K8S ingress
• remote.<yourdomain.com>: IP address / hostname of open-balena-remote, or open-balena-admin-haproxy if using K8S ingress

6. Start open-balena

open-balena/scripts/compose up

7. Start open-balena-admin

open-balena-admin/scripts/compose up

Web Access

Once both open-balena and open-balena-admin are running, you can access the admin interface via http://admin.<openbalena domain> (or http://admin.openbalena.local if running locally). Log in using the credentials that were used in step 2 or when your openbalena instance was initially set up. Device dashboards can be accessed directly at http://dashboard.<openbalena domain>/devices/<UUID>/summary, which will require a successful login.

Components

The open-balena-admin package is a compilation of three separate but related projects: open-balena-ui, open-balena-remote and open-balena-postgrest. Take note of the instructions within each of these projects to ensure your openbalena projects are configured to utilize features of open-balena-admin (i.e. remote device access).

K8S Deployment

open-balena-admin has been fully integrated into the open-balena-helm project.

Limitations and Known Issues

• User authorization is not implemented at the resource level

Credits

• The ra-data-postgrest project was instrumental in establishing the link to the open-balena database