Linstor GUI (linstor-gui) getting started

[cf-sewe]

Could anybody provide me some starting points, how I would get linstor-gui working with Piraeus managed linstor?

Is the GUI meanwhile included in the piraeus-operator release / images?
Or would I need to create my own container and deployment for the GUI?

[WanzenBug]

It's available in the images since this commit: piraeusdatastore/piraeus@3bae14e

So you can try kubectl port-forward services/linstor-controller api and open http://localhost:3370/ui/ in your browser

[cf-sewe]

Thank you. I wasnt able to find out whether or not this commit is included in the latest piraeus-operator 2.7.1 release.
Just out of curiousity, I would like to understand how the release bundling takes place in that regard?

[WanzenBug]

We rebuild the then-current release on every change to the piraeusdatastore/piraeus dockerfiles. So on a new Operator release, we update the configuration so it deploys the latest images here

As you can see, we do not pin to a specific image digest, just the general software version. This means we can rebuild these images (for example when there are known CVEs), without having to make a new Operator release. But it also means that sometimes people who have already pulled the old version will not get the latest version unless they manually pull.

[cf-sewe]

That makes sense for me. Thanks a lot for the additional insight!