Chapter 5. Customizing the Dashboard The OpenStack dashboard for Red Hat OpenStack Platform uses a default theme ( RCUE ), which is stored inside the horizon container. You can customize the look and feel of the OpenStack dashboard by adding your own theme to the container image and customizing certain dashboard parameters. With this customization, you can modify the following elements: Logo Site colors Stylesheets HTML title Site branding link Help URL Note To ensure continued support for modified Red Hat OpenStack Platform container images, the resulting images must comply with the Red Hat Container Support Policy . 5.1. Obtaining the horizon container image You must obtain a copy of the horizon container image. You can pull this image either into the undercloud or a separate client system running podman . To pull the horizon container image, run the following command: You can now use this image as a basis for a modified image. 5.2. Obtaining the RCUE theme The horizon container image is configured to use the Red Hat branded RCUE theme by default. You can use this theme as a basis for your own theme and extract a copy from the container image. Procedure Make a directory for your theme: Start a container that executes a null loop. For example, run the following command: Copy the RCUE theme from the container to your local directory: Kill the container: You should now have a local copy of the RCUE theme. 5.3. Creating your own theme based on RCUE To use RCUE as a basis, copy the entire RCUE theme directory rcue to a new location, for example mytheme : To change a theme's colors, graphics, fonts, among others, edit the files in mytheme . When editing this theme, check for all instances of rcue and ensure that you change them to the new mytheme name. This includes paths, files, and directories. 5.4. Creating a file to enable your theme and customize the dashboard To enable your theme in the dashboard container, you must create a file to override the AVAILABLE_THEMES parameter. Create a new file called _12_mytheme_theme.py in the horizon-themes directory and add the following content: The 12 in the file name ensures this file is loaded after the RCUE file, which uses 11 , and overrides the AVAILABLE_THEMES parameter. You can also set custom parameters in the _12_mytheme_theme.py file. For example: SITE_BRANDING Set the HTML title that appears at the top of the browser window. For example: SITE_BRANDING_LINK Changes the hyperlink of the theme's logo, which normally redirects to horizon:user_home by default. For example: 5.5. Generating a modified horizon image When your custom theme is ready, you can create a new container image that enables and uses your theme. Use a dockerfile to generate a new container image using the original horizon image as a basis. The following is an example of a dockerfile : Save this file in your horizon-themes directory as dockerfile . To use the dockerfile to generate the new image, run the following command: The -t option names and tags the resulting image. It uses the following syntax: LOCATION This is usually the location of the container registry that the overcloud eventually pulls uses to pull images. In this instance, you will push this image to the undercloud's container registry, so set this to the undercloud IP and port. NAME For consistency, this is usually the same name as the original container image followed by the name of your theme. In this case, it is rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme . TAG The tag for the image. Red Hat uses the version and release labels as a basis for this tag and it is usually a good idea to follow this convention. If you generate a new version of this image, increment the release (e.g. 0-2 ). Push the resulting image to the undercloud's container registry: Important If updating or upgrading Red Hat OpenStack Platform, you must reapply the theme to the new horizon image and push a new version of the modified image to the undercloud. 5.6. Using the modified container image in the overcloud To use the resulting container image with your overcloud deployment, edit the environment file that contains the list of container image locations. This environment file is usually named overcloud-images.yaml . Edit the ContainerHorizonConfigImage and ContainerHorizonImage parameters to point to your modified container image. For example: Save this new version of the overcloud-images.yaml file. 5.7. Editing puppet parameters Red Hat OpenStack Platform director provides a set of horizon parameters you can modify using environment files. You can also use the ExtraConfig hook to set Puppet hieradata. For example, the default help URL points to https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-openstack-platform . You can modify this URL with the following environment file content: 5.8. Deploying an overcloud with a customized Dashboard To deploy the overcloud with your dashboard customizations, include the following environment files: The environment file with your modified container image locations. The environment file with additional dashboard modifications. Any other environment files relevant to the configuration of your overcloud. For example:

Commands:
sudo podman pull registry.redhat.io/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon
mkdir ~/horizon-themes cd ~/horizon-themes
sudo podman run --rm -d --name horizon-temp registry.redhat.io/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon /usr/bin/sleep infinity
sudo podman cp -a horizon-temp:/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/themes/rcue .
sudo podman kill horizon-temp
cp -r rcue mytheme
AVAILABLE_THEMES = [('mytheme', 'My Custom Theme', 'themes/mytheme')]
SITE_BRANDING = "Example, Inc. Cloud"
SITE_BRANDING_LINK = "http://example.com"
FROM registry.redhat.io/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon MAINTAINER Acme LABEL name="rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme" vendor="Acme" version="0" release="1" COPY mytheme /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/themes/mytheme COPY _12_mytheme_theme.py /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.d/_12_mytheme_theme.py RUN sudo chown horizon:horizon /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.d/_12_mytheme_theme.py
sudo podman build . -t "192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1"
[LOCATION]/[NAME]:[TAG]
podman push 192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1
parameter_defaults: ContainerHorizonConfigImage: 192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1 ContainerHorizonImage: 192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon-mytheme:0-1
parameter_defaults: ExtraConfig: horizon::help_url: "http://openstack.example.com"
openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e /home/stack/templates/overcloud-images.yaml -e /home/stack/templates/help_url.yaml [OTHER OPTIONS]