Enable a Custom Application from the Workspace Catalog

Enable a Custom Application from the Workspace Catalog

After creating a GitRepository, you can either use the DKP UI or the CLI to enable your custom applications.

IMPORTANT: From within a workspace, you can enable applications to deploy. Verify that an application has successfully deployed via the CLI.

Enable the application using the DKP UI

  1. From the top menu bar, select your target workspace.

  2. Select Applications from the sidebar menu to browse the available applications from your configured repositories.

  3. Select the three dot button from the bottom-right corner of the desired application tile, and then select Enable.

  4. If available, select a version from the drop-down menu. This drop-down menu will only be visible if there is more than one version.

  5. (Optional) If you want to override the default configuration values, copy your customized values into the text editor under Configure Service or upload your yaml file that contains the values:

    someField: someValue
    
  6. Confirm the details are correct, and then select the Enable button.

For all applications, you must provide a display name and an ID which is automatically generated based on what you enter for the display name, unless or until you edit the ID directly. The ID must be compliant with Kubernetes DNS subdomain name validation rules.

Alternately, you can use the CLI to enable your custom applications.

Enable the application using the CLI

  1. Set the WORKSPACE_NAMESPACE environment variable to the name of the workspace’s namespace:

    export WORKSPACE_NAMESPACE=<workspace_namespace>
    
  2. Get the list of available applications to enable using the following command:

    kubectl get apps -n ${WORKSPACE_NAMESPACE}
    
  3. Deploy one of the supported applications from the list with an AppDeployment resource.

  4. Within the AppDeployment, define the appRef to specify which App will be enabled:

    cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
    apiVersion: apps.kommander.d2iq.io/v1alpha2
    kind: AppDeployment
    metadata:
      name: my-custom-app
      namespace: ${WORKSPACE_NAMESPACE}
    spec:
      appRef:
        name: custom-app-0.0.1
        kind: App
    EOF
    
    

NOTE: The appRef.name must match the app name from the list of available applications.

Enable an application with a custom configuration using the CLI

  1. Provide the name of a ConfigMap in the AppDeployment, which provides custom configuration on top of the default configuration:

    cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
    apiVersion: apps.kommander.d2iq.io/v1alpha2
    kind: AppDeployment
    metadata:
      name: my-custom-app
      namespace: ${WORKSPACE_NAMESPACE}
    spec:
      appRef:
        name: custom-app-0.0.1
        kind: App
      configOverrides:
        name: my-custom-app-overrides
    EOF
    
  2. Create the ConfigMap with the name provided in the step above, with the custom configuration:

    cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      namespace: ${WORKSPACE_NAMESPACE}
      name: my-custom-app-overrides
    data:
      values.yaml: |
        someField: someValue
    EOF
    

Kommander waits for the ConfigMap to be present before enabling the AppDeployment to the attached clusters in the Workspace.

Verify applications

After completing the previous steps, your applications are enabled. Connect to the attached cluster and check the HelmReleases to verify the deployments:

kubectl get helmreleases -n ${WORKSPACE_NAMESPACE}

NAMESPACE               NAME            READY   STATUS                             AGE
workspace-test-vjsfq      my-custom-app   True    Release reconciliation succeeded   7m3s