Pulsar Manager

Pulsar Manager is a web-based GUI management and monitoring tool that helps administrators and users manage and monitor tenants, namespaces, topics, subscriptions, brokers, clusters, and so on, and supports dynamic configuration of multiple environments.

Install

To install Pulsar Manager, complete the following steps.

1. Quick Install

The easiest way to use the Pulsar Manager is to run it inside a Docker container.

docker pull apachepulsar/pulsar-manager:v0.3.0
docker run -it \
  -p 9527:9527 -p 7750:7750 \
  -e SPRING_CONFIGURATION_FILE=/pulsar-manager/pulsar-manager/application.properties \
  apachepulsar/pulsar-manager:v0.3.0

• Pulsar Manager is divided into front-end and back-end, the front-end service port is 9527 and the back-end service port is 7750.
• SPRING_CONFIGURATION_FILE: Default configuration file for spring.
• By default, Pulsar Manager uses the herddb database. HerdDB is a SQL distributed database implemented in Java and can be found at herddb.org for more information.

2. Configure Database or JWT authentication

Configure Database (optional)

If you have a large amount of data, you can use a custom database. Otherwise, some display errors may occur. For example, the topic information cannot be displayed when the topic exceeds 10000. The following is an example of PostgreSQL.

1. Initialize database and table structures using the file.
2. Download and modify the configuration file, then add the PostgreSQL configuration.

spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/pulsar_manager
spring.datasource.username=postgres
spring.datasource.password=postgres

1. Add a configuration mount and start with a docker image.

docker pull apachepulsar/pulsar-manager:v0.3.0
docker run -it \
    -p 9527:9527 -p 7750:7750 \
    -v /your-path/application.properties:/pulsar-manager/pulsar-manager/application.properties
    -e SPRING_CONFIGURATION_FILE=/pulsar-manager/pulsar-manager/application.properties \
    apachepulsar/pulsar-manager:v0.3.0

Enable JWT authentication (optional)

If you want to turn on JWT authentication, configure the application.properties file.

backend.jwt.token=token
jwt.broker.token.mode=PRIVATE
jwt.broker.public.key=file:///path/broker-public.key
jwt.broker.private.key=file:///path/broker-private.key
or
jwt.broker.token.mode=SECRET
jwt.broker.secret.key=file:///path/broker-secret.key

• backend.jwt.token: token for the superuser. You need to configure this parameter during cluster initialization.
• jwt.broker.token.mode: multiple modes of generating tokens, including PUBLIC, PRIVATE, and SECRET.
• jwt.broker.public.key: configure this option if you use the PUBLIC mode.
• jwt.broker.private.key: configure this option if you use the PRIVATE mode.
• jwt.broker.secret.key: configure this option if you use the SECRET mode. For more information, see Token Authentication Admin of Pulsar.

Docker command to add profile and key files mount.

docker pull apachepulsar/pulsar-manager:v0.3.0
docker run -it \
  -p 9527:9527 -p 7750:7750 \
  -v /your-path/application.properties:/pulsar-manager/pulsar-manager/application.properties
  -v /your-path/private.key:/pulsar-manager/private.key
  -e SPRING_CONFIGURATION_FILE=/pulsar-manager/pulsar-manager/application.properties \
  apachepulsar/pulsar-manager:v0.3.0

3. Set the administrator account and password

CSRF_TOKEN=$(curl http://localhost:7750/pulsar-manager/csrf-token)
curl \
   -H 'X-XSRF-TOKEN: $CSRF_TOKEN' \
   -H 'Cookie: XSRF-TOKEN=$CSRF_TOKEN;' \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -X PUT http://localhost:7750/pulsar-manager/users/superuser \
   -d '{"name": "admin", "password": "apachepulsar", "description": "test", "email": "username@test.org"}'

The request parameter in curl command:

{"name": "admin", "password": "apachepulsar", "description": "test", "email": "username@test.org"}

• name is the Pulsar Manager login username, currently admin.
• password is the password of the current user of Pulsar Manager, currently apachepulsar. The password should be more than or equal to 6 digits.

4. Configure the environment

1. Login to the system, Visit http://localhost:9527 to login. The current default account is admin/apachepulsar

2. Click “New Environment” button to add an environment.

3. Input the “Environment Name”. The environment name is used for identifying an environment.

4. Input the “Service URL”. The Service URL is the admin service URL of your Pulsar cluster.

Other Installation

There are some other installation methods.

Bare-metal installation

When using binary packages for direct deployment, you can follow these steps.

• Download and unzip the binary package, which is available on the Pulsar Download page.

      wget https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/pulsar/pulsar-manager/pulsar-manager-0.3.0/apache-pulsar-manager-0.3.0-bin.tar.gz
      tar -zxvf apache-pulsar-manager-0.3.0-bin.tar.gz

• Extract the back-end service binary package and place the front-end resources in the back-end service directory.

      cd pulsar-manager
      tar -zxvf pulsar-manager.tar
      cd pulsar-manager
      cp -r ../dist ui

• Modify application.properties configuration on demand.

  If you don’t want to modify the application.properties file, you can add the configuration to the startup parameters via . /bin/pulsar-manager --backend.jwt.token=token to add the configuration to the startup parameters. This is a capability of the spring boot framework.

• Start Pulsar Manager

  ./bin/pulsar-manager

Custom docker image installation

You can find the docker image in the Docker Hub directory and build an image from the source code as well:

git clone https://github.com/apache/pulsar-manager
cd pulsar-manager/front-end
npm install --save
npm run build:prod
cd ..
./gradlew build -x test
cd ..
docker build -f docker/Dockerfile --build-arg BUILD_DATE=`date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"` --build-arg VCS_REF=`latest` --build-arg VERSION=`latest` -t apachepulsar/pulsar-manager .

Configuration

• For more information about backend configurations, see here.
• For more information about frontend configurations, see here.