Web Console Overview

    Both Administrator and Developer perspectives enable you to create quick start tutorials for OKD. A quick start is a guided tutorial with user tasks and is useful for getting oriented with an application, Operator, or other product offering.

    The Administrator perspective enables you to view the cluster inventory, capacity, general and specific utilization information, and the stream of important events, all of which help you to simplify planning and troubleshooting tasks. Both project administrators and cluster administrators can view the Administrator perspective.

    Cluster administrators can also open an embedded command line terminal instance with the web terminal Operator in OKD 4.7 and later.

    The Administrator perspective provides workflows specific to administrator use cases, such as the ability to:

    • Manage workload, storage, networking, and cluster settings.

    • Install and manage Operators using the Operator Hub.

    • Add identity providers that allow users to log in and manage user access through roles and role bindings.

    • View and manage a variety of advanced settings such as cluster updates, partial cluster updates, cluster Operators, custom resource definitions (CRDs), role bindings, and resource quotas.

    • Access and manage monitoring features such as metrics, alerts, and monitoring dashboards.

    • View and manage logging, metrics, and high-status information about the cluster.

    Additional resources

    See for more information on the web terminal Operator.

    The Developer perspective offers several built-in ways to deploy applications, services, and databases. In the Developer perspective, you can:

    • View real-time visualization of rolling and recreating rollouts on the component.

    • Share your project with others.

    • Troubleshoot problems with your applications by running Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) queries on your project and examining the metrics visualized on a plot. The metrics provide information about the state of a cluster and any user-defined workloads that you are monitoring.

    Cluster administrators can also open an embedded command line terminal instance in the web console in OKD 4.7 and later.

    The Developer perspective provides workflows specific to developer use cases, such as the ability to:

    • Create and deploy applications on OKD by importing existing codebases, images, and container files.

    • Visually interact with applications, components, and services associated with them within a project and monitor their deployment and build status.

    • Group components within an application and connect the components within and across applications.

    • Integrate serverless capabilities (Technology Preview).

    • Create workspaces to edit your application code using Eclipse Che.

    You can use the Topology view to display applications, components, and workloads of your project. If you have no workloads in the project, the Topology view will show some links to create or import them. You can also use the Quick Search to import components directly.

    Additional Resources

    See view for more information on using the Topology view in Developer perspective.

    You can access the Administrator and Developer perspective from the web console as follows:

    Prerequisites

    To access a perspective, ensure that you have logged in to the web console. Your default perspective is automatically determined by the permission of the users. The Administrator perspective is selected for users with access to all projects, while the Developer perspective is selected for users with limited access to their own projects

    See for more information on changing perspectives.

    Procedure

    1. Select an existing project from the Project drop-down list. You can also create a new project from this dropdown.

    Additional resources