Chapter 6. Using the Red Hat Developer Hub Operator to run Developer Hub with your custom configuration

Procedure

1. Author your Backstage CR in a my-rhdh-custom-resource.yaml file to use your custom config maps and secrets.

   my-rhdh-custom-resource.yaml custom resource example with dynamic plugins and RBAC policies config maps, and external PostgreSQL database secrets.

   apiVersion: rhdh.redhat.com/v1alpha3
   kind: Backstage
   metadata:
     name: <my-rhdh-custom-resource>
   spec:
     application:
       appConfig:
         mountPath: /opt/app-root/src
         configMaps:
            - name: my-rhdh-app-config
            - name: rbac-policies
       dynamicPluginsConfigMapName: dynamic-plugins-rhdh
       extraEnvs:
         envs:
           - name: HTTP_PROXY
             value: 'http://10.10.10.105:3128'
           - name: HTTPS_PROXY
             value: 'http://10.10.10.106:3128'
           - name: NO_PROXY
             value: 'localhost,example.org'
         secrets:
            - name: my-rhdh-secrets
       extraFiles:
         mountPath: /opt/app-root/src
         secrets:
           - name: my-rhdh-database-certificates-secrets
             key: postgres-crt.pem, postgres-ca.pem, postgres-key.key
       replicas: 2
     database:
       enableLocalDb: false

   application

   appConfig

   Register your my-rhdh-app-config and rbac-policies config maps.

   dynamicPluginsConfigMapName

   Register your dynamic-plugins-rhdh config map.

   extraEnvs

   env

   Enter your proxy environment variables.

   secrets

   Register your <my_product_secrets> and my-rhdh-database-secrets secrets.

   extraFiles

   secrets

   Register the postgres-crt.pem, postgres-ca.pem, and postgres-key.key files contained in the my-rhdh-database-certificates-secrets secret.

   replicas

   Enable high availability (HA) by increasing the replicas count to a value higher or equal to 2.

   database

   enableLocalDb

   Use your external PostgreSQL database rather than the internal PostgreSQL database.

2. Apply your Backstage CR to start or update your Developer Hub instance.

   $ oc apply --filename=my-rhdh-custom-resource.yaml --namespace=my-rhdh-project