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WebYaST presentation at LinuxTag 2010
- 1. WebYaST Remote Web based system management Ladislav Slezák [email_address] SUSE Linux s.r.o.
- 2. Content YaST, the predecessor
- 4. Live demo
- 5. Implementation details, solved problems
- 7. Questions
- 8. YaST
- 9. YaST – Yet another Setup Tool System management tool for Linux
- 10. System installer
- 12. Included in openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop application, administration account needed
- 14. YaST – Control Center
- 15. YaST – Package Manager
- 16. YaST – Package Manager
- 17. WebYaST
- 18. WebYaST Features Successor to YaST
- 19. Access via a web browser
- 20. Open source (GPLv2 and LGPLv2)
- 21. WebYaST – Target Users Beginner users
- 22. Experts (remote system monitoring)
- 23. Appliance (virtual machine) management
- 24. Comparing YaST and WebYaST YaST SSH VNC HTTPS Remote access WebYaST No special SW needed,
- 25. just a web browser
- 27. Comparing YaST and WebYaST Authorization and security YaST WebYaST No password sharing
- 28. Access control
- 29. Role based access Admin Password User administrator SW administrator ? User administrator SW administrator User's password User's password Access rights Access rights
- 30. WebYaST Demo
- 31. WebYaST
- 32. WebYaST
- 33. WebYaST
- 34. WebYaST
- 36. YaST Architecture Privileged user (root) YaST UI (Qt, Gtk, ncurses) Application Logic Low Level Access System
- 37. WebYaST Architecture HTML/HTTPS XML/HTTP Non-privileged user Non-privileged user Privileged user DBus Direct non-privileged access REST Service Web Client WebYaST Web browser Web client Web service (REST service) YaST DBus service PackageKit System ...
- 38. WebYaST – Details WebYaST uses Ruby on Rails framework
- 39. Reusing existing YaST code Privileged user (root) DBus service Legacy YaST UI (Qt, Gtk, ncurses) Application Logic Low Level Access System DBus Wrapper DBus Access control PolicyKit
- 40. REST Service The backend which actually configures system
- 41. XML or JSON format over HTTP
- 42. Can be also used by 3 rd party software or from commadline (via curl, wget)
- 43. REST Service Key components/features Small privileged part – DBus service
- 44. Access control – using PolicyKit
- 45. Reusing existing YaST components
- 46. Web Client HTML output over HTTPS
- 47. Key features XML communication with REST – Rails ActiveResource
- 48. Cross-browser compatibility – jQuery JavaScript library
- 49. Localization support – GetText
- 51. Web Client – Customization First boot mode – first time configuration Set of modules started before the main application
- 52. Started just once Custom icon/link in the control panel
- 53. WebYaST – Plugins Plugin design Basic and shared functionality in base packages
- 54. Plugins implement the actual functionality Plugins make WebYaST easily extensible
- 56. WebYast – Installation Already preinstalled
- 57. Installing from RPM packages http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/YaST:/Web/ Running directly from sources (GIT) The latest version for developers
- 58. See http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Web/Installation
- 59. WebYaST – Development Interested in WebYaST development?
- 60. Open source (GPLv2 and LGPLv2)
- 63. Resources WebYaST Documentation http://en.opensuse.org/WebYaST User and Vendor Guide http://www.novell.com/documentation/webyast/ book_webyast_use/data/cha_webyast_user_overview.html
- 64. http://www.novell.com/documentation/webyast/ book_webyast_vendor/data/cha_webyast_vendor_overview.html General Terms REST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
- 65. Questions?