backplane-cli

backplane-cli is a CLI tool to interact with backplane api.

Installation

Go should be installed in your local system with version 1.19

Option 1: Download from release

Download the latest binary from the GitHub releases page.

For example, to download the binary on Linux:

$ wget https://github.com/openshift/backplane-cli/releases/download/v0.1.1/ocm-backplane_0.1.1_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf ocm-backplane_0.1.1_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
$ chmod +x ocm-backplane
$ mv ocm-backplane $GOBIN

Option 2: Build from source

First clone the repository somewhere in your $PATH. A common place would be within your $GOPATH.

Example:

$ mkdir $GOPATH/src/github.com/openshift
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/openshift
$ git clone git@github.com/openshift/backplane-cli.git

$ make build

This command will build the backplane-cli binary, named ocm-backplane. This binary will be placed in $PATH. As the binary has prefix ocm-, it becomes a plugin of ocm, and can be invoked by ocm backplane.

For more information about ocm plugins, please refer https://github.com/openshift-online/ocm-cli#extend-ocm-with-plugins

Configuration

The configuration file of backplane-cli is expected to be located at $HOME/.config/backplane/config.json.

Setup bash/zsh prompt

To setup the PS1(prompt) for bash/zsh, please follow these instructions.

Usage

Command	Description
`ocm backplane login <CLUSTERID/EXTERNAL_ID/CLUSTER_NAME>`	Login to the target cluster
`ocm backplane logout <CLUSTERID/EXTERNAL_ID/CLUSTER_NAME>`	Logout from the target cluster
`ocm backplane config get [flags]`	Retrieve Backplane CLI configuration variables
`ocm backplane config set [flags]`	Set Backplane CLI configuration variables
`ocm backplane console [flags]`	Launch the OpenShift console of the current logged in cluster
`ocm backplane cloud console`	Launch the current logged in cluster's cloud provider console
`ocm backplane cloud credentials [flags]`	Retrieve a set of temporary cloud credentials for the cluster's cloud provider
`ocm backplane elevate <reason> -- <command>`	Elevate privileges to backplane-cluster-admin and add a reason to the api request
`ocm backplane monitoring <prometheus/alertmanager/thanos/grafana> [flags]`	Launch the specified monitoring UI (Deprecated following v4.11 for cluster monitoring stack)
`ocm backplane script describe <script> [flags]`	Describe the given backplane script
`ocm backplane script list [flags]`	List available backplane scripts
`ocm backplane session [flags]`	Create a new session and log into the cluster
`ocm backplane status`	Print essential cluster info
`ocm backplane managedJob create <script> [flags]`	Create a backplane managed job resource
`ocm backplane managedJob get <job_name> [flags]`	Retrieve a backplane managed job resource
`ocm backplane managedJob list [flags]`	Retrieve a list of backplane managed job resources
`ocm backplane managedJob logs <job_name> [flags]`	Retrieve logs of the specified managed job resource
`ocm backplane managedJob delete <job_name> [flags]`	Delete the specified managed job resource
`ocm backplane testJob create <script> [flags]`	Create a backplane test managed job on a non-production cluster for testing. To use with bash libraries, make sure the libraries are in the scripts directory in the format `source /managed-scripts/<path-from-managed-scripts-scripts-dir>`
`ocm backplane testJob get <job_name> [flags]`	Retrieve a backplane test job resource
`ocm backplane testJob list [flags]`	Retrieve a list of backplane test job resources
`ocm backplane testJob logs <job_name> [flags]`	Retrieve logs of the specified test job resource
`ocm backplane upgrade`	Upgrade backplane-cli to the latest version
`ocm backplane version`	Display the installed backplane-cli version

Login

Example

In this example, we will login to a cluster with id 123456abcdef in production environment, and we have the OCM client environment setup like this.

Run backplane login in another terminal.
```
$ ocm backplane login <cluster>
```

Run oc command to access the target cluster.

$ oc whoami
system:serviceaccount:openshift-backplane-srep:1234567

To login to the Management cluster for HyperShift (or) the managing Hive shard of normal OSD/ROSA cluster
```
$ ocm backplane login <cluster> --manager
```
To login to the Service Cluster of a HyperShift hosted cluster or the Management Cluster
```
$ ocm backplane login <cluster> --service
```

Login to multiple clusters

Logging into multiple clusters via different terminal instances.

How to log into the first cluster

$ ocm backplane login <cluster-id-1> --multi
$ export KUBECONFIG= <cluster-id-1-kube-config-path>

How to log into the second cluster

$ ocm backplane login <cluster-id-2> --multi
$ export KUBECONFIG= <cluster-id-2-kube-config-path>

Console

Login to the target cluster via backplane as the above.
Run the below command and it will launch the console of the current logged in cluster.
```
$ ocm backplane console
--> Console will be available at http://127.0.x.x:xxxx
```
Follow the above link http://127.0.x.x:xxxx to access console.

Open in browser

You can directly open the console in browser by adding flag -b or setting environment variable BACKPLANE_DEFAULT_OPEN_BROWSER=true. Example,

When running this command, it will open the console in the browser automatically.
```
$ ocm backplane console -b
```
Or set the environment variable
```
$ export BACKPLANE_DEFAULT_OPEN_BROWSER=true

$ ocm backplane console
```
Optionally, you can also load the enabled console plugin
```
$ ocm backplane console -plugins
```
Note: Load the console plugin from backplane-cli is not sufficient to access the console plugin, backplane-api to expose the console plugin service explicitly is needed.

Cloud Console

Login to the target cluster via backplane as the above.
Run the below command and it will launch the cloud console of the current logged in cluster.
```
$ ocm backplane cloud console
Console Link:
Link: https://xxxxx
```
Follow the above link to access the console.

Open in browser

You can directly open the console in the browser by adding flag -b or setting the environment variable BACKPLANE_DEFAULT_OPEN_BROWSER=true.

When running this command, it will open the console in the browser automatically.
```
$ ocm backplane cloud console -b
```
Or set the environment variable
```
$ export BACKPLANE_DEFAULT_OPEN_BROWSER=true
$ ocm backplane cloud console
`
```

Monitoring

Monitoring command can be used to launch the specified monitoring UI.

Run this command from within a cluster :

ocm backplane monitoring <prometheus/alertmanager/thanos/grafana> [flags]

Note: Following version 4.11, Prometheus, AlertManager and Grafana monitoring UIs are deprecated for openshift-monitoring stack, please use 'ocm backplane console' and use the observe tab for the same. Other monitoring stacks remain unaffected.

Backplane Session

Backplane session command will create an isolated environment to interact with a cluster in its own directory. The default location for this is ~/backplane.

The default session save path can be configured via the backplane config file.

{
   "url": "your-bp-url"
   "proxy-url": "your-proxy-url"
   "session-dir":"your-session-dir"
}

How to create new session?

The following command will create a new session and log in to the cluster.

## with intractive session name 
ocm backplane session <session-name> -c <cluster-id>

## only with cluster id
ocm backplane session <cluster-id>

Backplane session keeps the session history commands in /session-name/.history file.

[ <session-name> (<cluster-info-PS1>)]$ history 
    1  2023-05-08 15:06:05 oc get nodes
    2  2023-05-08 15:06:13 oc get co
    3  2023-05-08 15:06:40 history

Backplane session setup following environment variables.

HISTFILE    = <your-session-path>/<session-name>/.history
PATH        = <your-os-path>
KUBECONFIG  = <your-session-path>/<session-name>/<cluster-id>/config
CLUSTERID   = <cluster-id>
CLUSTERNAME = <cluster-name>

How to delete the session?

Folowing command delete the session

ocm backplane session --delete <session-name>

Promotion/Release cycle of backplane CLI

Backplane CLI has a default release cycle of every 2 weeks

In case of you have changes that have immediate impact and would need an immediate promotion, please reach out to:

Backplane team (alias : @backplane-team) in #sd-ims-backplane slack channel

Debugging issues

To help diagnose any issues, you can modify the default verbosity of the logger. Use -v for info level or explicitly setting the logging level by using --verbosity=debug flag.

For further information on logging levels refer to the in-built help.

$ ocm backplane help

How backplane-cli works

See design.md.

Please help us to improve. To contact the backplane team:

@backplane-team in slack channel #sd-ims-backplane (CoreOS workspace)
Or reach out OWNERS

pepedocs/backplane-cli