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Kudos Boards for HCL Connections CP

Deploying Kudos Boards into HCL Connections Component Pack (Kubernetes)

Release Information

Prerequisites

  1. HCL Component Pack is installed and running
  2. WebSphere environment with Web Server (or another reverse proxy)
  3. kubectl is installed
  4. helm is installed
  5. SMTP gateway setup for email notifications if required

SSL / Network setup

Kudos Boards in Connections Component Pack (CP) uses the existing CP infrastructure.

The UI and API each require a unique route:

  • UI for Boards: [CONNECTIONS_URL]/boards. We will refer to this as BOARDS_URL
  • API Gateway: [CONNECTIONS_URL]/api-boards. We will refer to this as API_URL

For more details on configuring an IBM HTTP WebServer as reverse proxy, please see here

Setup OAuth

You will need to setup an OAuth application with one (or more) of these providers for Kudos Boards to function. please refer to the following documentation:

Provider Registration / Documentation Callback URL
HCL Connections
(on premise)		 Kudos instructions https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/boards/auth/connections/callback
Microsoft Office 365 Kudos instructions https://[CONNECTIONS_URL]/boards/auth/msgraph/callback

Configure kubectl

Instructions
Kubernetes copy ~/kube/.config from the Kubernetes master server to the same location locally
(backup any existing local config)

Storage

S3

Kudos Boards for Component Pack deploys a Minio service. Please follow S3 storage details here to configure the NFS mount.

Mongo

Kudos Boards uses the Mongo database already deployed inside the Component Pack. There is no configuration required.

Licence Key

Kudos Boards / Activities Plus is a free entitlement however it requires a licence key from https://store.kudosapps.com. For more details see here.

Update Config file

Download our config file and update all the values inside. Descriptions as below.

Kubernetes variables:

Key Description
global.env.APP_URI https://[BOARDS_URL] (e.g. https://connections.example.com/boards)
webfront.ingress.hosts [CONNECTIONS_URL] (no protocol, e.g. connections.example.com)
core.ingress.hosts [API_URL] (no protocol, e.g. connections.example.com/api-boards)
minio.nfs.server IP address of the NFS Server file mount (e.g. 192.168.10.20)

Boards variables:

Are detailed here.

Activity migration variables:

The Activity migration chart will be deployed separately but use the same config file. The variables are described here.

Deploy Boards Helm Chart

Install the Boards services via our Helm chart

Note: --recreate-pods ensures all images are up to date. This will cause downtime.

helm upgrade kudos-boards-cp [PATH_TO_HELM_CHARTS]/kudos-boards-cp-1.0.0.tgz -i -f ./boards-cp.yaml --namespace connections --recreate-pods

Where [PATH_TO_HELM_CHARTS] is the file path to the helm charts, ie [extractedFolder]/microservices_connections/hybridcloud/helmbuilds/

For example:

helm upgrade kudos-boards-cp ./microservices_connections/hybridcloud/helmbuilds/kudos-boards-cp-1.0.0.tgz -i -f ./boards-cp.yaml --namespace connections --recreate-pods

Add Proxy Config

Connections On Premise - update WAS config

in the linked document you should use the IP of your kubernetes manager and the http port for your ingress (32080 for default component pack installs)

Please follow these instructions

Integrations

HCL Connections

Microsoft Teams

Migrate Activities data

Please follow the instructions here

Subscribing to latest updates from Kudos Team

Guide here