Accessing the StackStorm UI

The StackStorm Helm installation assumes you are running in a single-node Minikube cluster and the instructions provided alongside it serve smaller deployments. We are running StackStorm on a large cluster with multiple nodes. We will expose the web server externally to access the StackStorm UI.

Let's perform the following steps to create a cloud load balancer so that we can access the StackStorm web interface:

1. Create a load balancer. The following command will create a load balancer through your cloud provider and expose the web service on port 80:

$ cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: st2-service
  namespace: stackstorm
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
    - port: 80
      targetPort: 80
      protocol: TCP
  selector:
    app: st2web
EOF

2. Find the external service IP. In the following example, we have used a Kubernetes cluster deployed on AWS. Although the output might be different, the following command should result in the same on other platforms:

$ kubectl get svc st2-service -nstackstorm
NAME        TYPE         CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
st2-service LoadBalancer 100.68.68.243 a022d6921df2411e9bd5e0a92289be87-2114318237.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com 80:31874/TCP 6m38s

3. Open the external IP address from step 2 in a browser:

4. Log in with the necessary credentials, that is, username as st2admin and password as Ch@ngeMe :

Now, you have access to the StackStorm interface. Now, we will click on the menu items and explore the actions before we create our first rule in the Defining a rule recipe.