LXD UI

[almereyda]

The LXD Snap brings an LXD UI since v5.14:

• How to access the LXD web UI - Canonical LXD documentation
• canonical/lxd-ui: Easy and accessible container and virtual machine management. A browser interface for LXD

Is there a chance this could be included in these LXD builds here?

As per the definition of the snap, this only seems to copy some static files into an expected location, and is then available?

https://github.com/canonical/lxd-pkg-snap/blob/1b5997236d12a73a402a711e1dd3d9274eb43045/snapcraft.yaml#L1523-L1544

ui.enabled=true then exports an environment variable with the location of the UI:

https://github.com/canonical/lxd-pkg-snap/blob/1b5997236d12a73a402a711e1dd3d9274eb43045/snapcraft/commands/daemon.start#L449-L453

LXD activates the UI, if this variable is present and set:

https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/1be6a0bc5e65a157d32afbac4b24ee3b0d8fc791/lxd/api.go#L70-L71

Would it be possible to replicate these steps with the COPR and RPM build infrastructure?

Else I've seen plans in Incus land to repackage it, which could be used as a reference point.

[ganto]

Thanks for the hint. I'll have a look at it.

[ganto]

I was able to build a first version of the lxd-ui RPM. Unfortunately it was only successful for x86_64.

You can give it a try by installing the package dnf install lxd-ui and manually adding the LXD_UI variable to the lxd service e.g. via systemctl edit lxd.service:

[Service]
LXD_UI=/usr/share/lxd-ui/ui

[almereyda]

Many thanks for the effort, very well done and received.

Even though I had adapted the snippet to read

[Service]
< LXD_UI=/usr/share/lxd-ui/ui
> Environment=LXD_UI=/usr/share/lxd-ui/ui

LXD would not bind to the expected port :8443, until I had activated the API with lxc config set core.https_address :8443.

Then I was greeted with a way to set the token for the certificate that was offered, and could manage the service.

• The page https://localhost:8443/ui/project/default/storage/cached-images only shows blank until a reload, but that could come from upstream.

Should this issue remain open, until the package also builds for other platforms?

[ganto]

Ah, sorry about the wrong service snipped.

Btw. thanks for all the links that you posted. They help me a lot.

Now I'm still struggling with some Javascript build issues. I'd like to leave the issue open until I fixed that. Hopefully it will keep me motivated to fix it soon.

[almereyda]

Cool, go on. People will be surprised to hear that this even exists and just works™

[ganto]

The lxd-ui package is now available for all Fedora architectures. With >=lxd-5.18-0.2 I also adjusted the lxd systemd service so that the path to the UI (and the documentation) must no longer be set manually.

How to enable the UI is now also explained in the wiki. I hope this should be good enough for everyone interested to figure out how to use it.

[almereyda]

You were faster than Incus, which is a little nice.

• Package the LXD UI as incus-ui-canonical zabbly/incus#7