Rancher Navigation Links for Trilio Management Console

This page describes the step-by-step instructions to create a Navigation Link for the T4K Management Console on the Rancher Management Console.

Users can create a Navigation Link on the Rancher Management Console to redirect a URL of any application deployed on the Kubernetes cluster.

The are two way to place the NavLink on the Rancher UI. 1. Create a standalone T4K UI NavLink on the left panel 2. Create a NavLink under a group and the Group will be placed on the left panel

Here are the instructions to create a Navigation Link (NavLink):

1. Create a standalone T4K UI NavLink on the left panel:

Click on Search icon on top-right corner on Rancher Server Console

Search the NavLinks to create a CR

apiVersion: ui.cattle.io/v1
kind: NavLink
metadata:
  name: triliovault-for-kubernetes-management-console
spec:
  description: T4K Management Console
  iconSrc: null
  label: T4K Management Console
  toURL: http://k3s-rke2-tvk.demo.trilio.io:31616/

In above yaml snippet:

• metadata.name : Name of the NavLink

• spec.description : Description of the NavLink

• spec.iconSrc : Image or icon of the branding logo of the application or the company

• spec.label : The label of the URL to be visible on the Rancher UI

• spec.toURL: Complete URL of the application to be redirected to. The host name is k8s-triliovault-minion ingress hosts URL. The port is the NodePort of the k8s-triliovault-ingress-gateway service.

In above yaml, user can also provide service object information instead of toURL. For the details check the Rancher documentation Copy the above yaml and create the new NavLink.

NavLink created using yaml

Navlink for T4K UI is present in left pane

2. Create a T4K UI NavLink under a group

Users can place the T4K UI URL under a group and then access it from the group dashboard:

apiVersion: ui.cattle.io/v1
kind: NavLink
metadata:
  annotations:
    key: triliovault-for-kubernetes-management-console
  labels:
    key: tvk-management-console
  name: tvk-mgmt-console-image
spec:
  description: T4K Backup & Restore Management Console
  group: Monitoring DashBoards
  iconSrc: <Copy the base64 encoded image and paste here>
  label: T4K Management Console
  toURL: http://k3s-rke2-tvk.demo.trilio.io:31616/

Navlink create using group of Monitoring Dashboard

NavLink visible under a group

Once the user clicks on the NavLink, it will be redirected to the T4K UI.

T4K UI is Accessible

For more information you can follow the documentation from Rancher as well.