Deploy the Dashboard

Table of Contents

Introduction

We show how to deploy the Dashboard (devnet) on a full VM. To do so, we set an SSH tunnel and use the VSCodium Remote Explorer function. We will then be able to use a source-code editor to explore the code and see changes on a local browser.

We also show how to provide a public access to the Dashboard by setting a gateway domain to your full VM deployment. Note that this method is not production-ready and should only be used to test the Dashboard.

Prerequisites

In this guide, we use WireGuard, but you can use other connection methods, such as Mycelium.

Create an SSH Tunnel

  • Open a terminal and create an SSH tunnel 
    ssh -4 -L 5173:127.0.0.1:5173 root@10.20.4.2

Simply leave this window open and follow the next steps.

If you use an IPv6 address, e.g. with Mycelium, set -6 in the line above instead of -4.

Editor SSH Remote Connection

You can connect via SSH through the source-code editor to a VM on the grid. In this example, WireGuard is set.

  • Add the SSH Remote extension to VSCodium
  • Add a new SSH remote connection
  • Set the following (adjust with your own username and host) 
    Host 10.20.4.2
    HostName 10.20.4.2
    User root
  • Click on Connect to host

Set the VM

We set the VM to be able to build the Dashboard.


apt update && apt install build-essential python3 -y

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion

nvm install 18

npm install -g yarn

Build the Dashboard

We now build the Dashboard.

Clone the repository, then install, build and run the Dashboard. Note that here it is called playground:


git clone https://github.com/threefoldtech/tfgrid-sdk-ts

cd tfgrid-sdk-ts/

yarn install

make build

make run project=playground

You can then access the dev net Dashboard on your local browser.

To stop running the Dashboard, simply enter ̀Ctrl-C on the terminal window.

Dashboard Public Access

Note: This method is not production-ready. Use only for testing purposes.

Once you've tested the Dashboard with the SSH tunnel, you can explore how to access it from the public Internet. For this, we will create a gateway domain and bind the host to 0.0.0.0.

On the Full VM page, add a domain to access your deployment from the public Internet.

  • Under Actions, click on Manage Domains
  • Go to Add New Domain
  • Choose a gateway domain under Select domain
  • Set the port 5173
  • Click on Add

To run the Dashboard from the added domain, use this instead of the previous make run line:

cd packages/playground
yarn dev --host 0.0.0.0

You can then access the Dashboard from the domain you just created.

Questions and Feedback

If you have any questions or feedback, please let us know by either writing a post on the ThreeFold Forum, or by chatting with us on the TF Grid Tester Community Telegram channel.

Last change: 2024-04-23