CrateDB Grand Central Admin

This is an administration interface for CrateDB, that aims to be a direct replacement for the original crate-admin (a.k.a. Admin UI).

Architectural Design Choices

GC Admin is open source and will always be open source (Apache 2.0).

GC Admin aims to be embedded within a CrateDB database, as the original crate-admin is. However, the project can also be run standalone, and configured to access CrateDB using Cross-Origin requests.

GC Admin is pure TypeScript/React that runs in a browser (no backend code).

GC Admin exposes a React component library, where components can be re-used in other React applications (i.e. they are used in CrateDB Cloud).

GC Admin has a consistent UX with CrateDB Cloud.

Authentication

GC Admin authenticates to CrateDB using standard HTTP Basic Auth.

Enterprise Features

GC Admin includes certain enterprise features, which require a non-open-source, paid-for application called Grand Central to function. When Grand Central is not present, the admin UI works, but certain features/tabs are inaccessible. Grand Central is always accessed via HTTP(S) Cross-Origin requests (the URL is configurable).

GC Admin authenticates to Grand Central via a JWT token, which must be obtained from CrateDB Cloud.

Install

To install this library you have to run the following command:

yarn add @crate.io/crate-gc-admin

Then, if you are using tailwind, edit your tailwind.config file and add the following:

...
content: [
  ...
  './node_modules/@crate.io/crate-gc-admin/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}'
]
...

and edit your index.css to import library style:

@import '@crate.io/crate-gc-admin/style.css';

Publish a new version

To publish a new version of the crate-gc-admin you need to

1. git checkout -b prefix/release-x.y.z
2. Update package.json with the new version
3. Update CHANGES.md with a new release section
4. Commit, push, get approval, merge
5. Wait for the GitHub Action to automatically publish the new version on NPM.