LXD WebUI

Requirements

to develop

• Node.js >= 4
• npm

npm install
npm start

to build angular 2 webapp

• Node.js >= 4
• npm

npm install
npm run build:prod
npm run server:prod # Not for production, just for test build

Resulat in build directory

to build electon application with deb package

• Node.js >= 4
• npm

npm install
npm run build:electron:prod
npm run package:electron:linux

Resulat in dist directory

Configuration on LXD

Allow LXD to listen on 8443 port

lxc config set core.https_address [::]:8443

Add CORS settings on LXD (Since LXD 2.0.0.rc2)

lxc config set core.https_allowed_origin "*" # SECURITY WARNING: prefer to restrict with lxd-webui url 
lxc config set core.https_allowed_methods "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS"
lxc config set core.https_allowed_headers "Content-Type"

Accept self-sign server certificate

Go on LXD server url (https://127.0.0.1:8443) with your browser.

Generate x509 certificate for browser authentification

• Generate a client private key

openssl genrsa -out lxd-webui.key 4096

• Generate a certificate request (csr)

openssl req -new -key lxd-webui.key -out lxd-webui.csr

• Generate an auto-sign certificate

openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in lxd-webui.csr -signkey lxd-webui.key -out lxd-webui.crt

• Export keys to pkcs12 for use in browers

openssl pkcs12 -keypbe PBE-SHA1-3DES -certpbe PBE-SHA1-3DES -export -in lxd-webui.crt -inkey lxd-webui.key -out lxd-webui.pfx -name "LXD WebUI"

• Import lxd-webui.pfx in your brower :

  • Google Chrome on Linux
  • Google Chrome on Windows
  • Firefox

• Authorize the certificate on LXD server.

lxc config trust add lxd-webui.crt