Ironcore Dashboard

Summary

This epic focuses on creating a Dashboard for Ironcore, providing a human-friendly interface for interacting with the Ironcore API. The goal is to enhance usability and adoption, making it easier to manage key resources like Machines, NetworkInterfaces, and IPs visually.

Given the similarities with Gardener, we should evaluate the feasibility of adapting the Gardener Dashboard for Ironcore, leveraging its existing UI architecture and features. This approach offers multiple advantages, such as faster development, familiar UX patterns, and reduced effort in designing a new dashboard from scratch.

Scope

✅ In Scope

• Develop an initial version of the Ironcore Dashboard with basic functionalities.
• Provide a UI for managing Machines, NetworkInterfaces, IPs, Volumes, etc.
• Evaluate and adapt Gardener’s Dashboard to fit Ironcore’s API model.
• Define a long-term roadmap for dashboard capabilities and user experience.

❌ Out of Scope

• Advanced automation features (to be handled in future iterations).
• Custom UI components beyond the adapted Gardener foundation (in the first iteration).

Responsible Areas

• UI
• Ironcore API

Contributors

• TBD

Acceptance Criteria

• UI

  • A functional UI to create and manage Machines
  • UI support for managing NetworkInterfaces, assigning IPs, and defining Networks
  • Evaluation of Gardener Dashboard reuse and initial integration strategy
  • Basic authentication and RBAC support (if required)

• Ironcore API

  • Dashboard integration points with Ironcore API resources are clearly defined
  • Documentation on how the Dashboard interacts with Ironcore API (incl. example flows)

Action Items

• Assign labels (e.g., kind/epic, area/website, area/ironcore-api)
• Set milestone (H1/2025)
• Assign dependent sub-issues in each required area
• Assign an owner to the issue using the GitHub "Assignee" field
• List all contributors in the "Contributors" section above
• Add this issue to the Roadmap project