Rancher Navigation Links for TrilioVault Management Console
This page describes the step-by-step instructions to create a Navigation Link for the TVK 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 TVK 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):

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: TVK Management Console
iconSrc: null
label: TVK Management Console
toURL: http://k3s-rke2-tvk.demo.trilio.io:31616/
In above yaml snippet:
metadata.name
: Name of the NavLinkspec.description
: Description of the NavLinkspec.iconSrc
: Image or icon of the branding logo of the application or the companyspec.label
: The label of the URL to be visible on the Rancher UIspec.toURL
: Complete URL of the application to be redirected to. The host name isk8s-triliovault-minion
ingress hosts URL. The port is theNodePort
of thek8s-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 TVK UI is present in left pane
Users can place the TVK 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: TVK Backup & Restore Management Console
group: Monitoring DashBoards
iconSrc: <Copy the base64 encoded image and paste here>
label: TVK 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 TVK UI.
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TVK UI is accessible