Tungsten Dashboard 8.0 Manual

Continuent Ltd

Abstract

This manual documents Tungsten Dashboard, a simple graphical user interface allowing you to manage all of your Tungsten Clusters in one single place.

This manual includes information for 8.0, up to and including 8.0.1.

Build date: 2025-07-15 (6f7c913d)

Up to date builds of this document: Tungsten Dashboard 8.0 Manual (Online), Tungsten Dashboard 8.0 Manual (PDF)


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Prerequisites
2.1. Common Prerequisites
2.2. Prerequisites for a Docker Compose Deployment
2.2.1. Docker
2.2.2. docker-compose
2.3. Prerequisites for a Kubernetes Deployment
2.3.1. kubectl
2.3.2. helm
2.3.3. Kubernetes Cluster
2.3.4. Upload tungsten-dashboard to Container Registry
3. Installation
3.1. Downloading Installation Packages
3.2. Installing via docker-compose
3.2.1. Pre-Installation Steps
3.2.2. Install Steps for docker-compose
3.2.3. Uninstall
3.3. Installing via Kubernetes using helm
3.3.1. Uninstall
4. Updates & Upgrades
4.1. Updating an existing installation
4.2. Upgrading to new Tungsten Dashboard version
5. User Guide
5.1. The Front Page
5.2. Create your own user account
5.3. Add Clusters
5.4. Monitor Clusters
6. User Interface
6.1. Front Page Interface
6.2. Clusters Interface
6.3. User Management Interface
7. Command Line Tools
7.1. install.pl script
7.2. getcert.pl script
7.3. letsencrypt2jetty.pl script
8. Establishing Connectivity to Tungsten Clusters
8.1. Configuring SSL when Deploying with Kubernetes
8.1.1. Basic SSL Connection To REST API only
8.1.2. SSL with Self-Signed Certificates
9. Operations
9.1. Service Operations
9.2. Cluster Datasource and Replicator operations
9.3. Tungsten Dashboard Exclusive operations
10. Best Practices
11. Troubleshooting
11.1. Lost Password
11.2. 404 After Test Connection Succeeds
11.3. Troubleshooting problem installations and cleaning up
11.4. DASHBOARD_SECRET
11.4.1. Lost DASHBOARD_SECRET
11.5. Connecting to Docker
A. Dashboard Internals
A.1. Dashboard Base URL
A.2. Environment Variables
A.3. The values.yaml file
A.3.1. Application Configuration
A.3.2. Cluster Configuration
A.3.3. User Configuration
B. Release Notes
B.1. Tungsten Dashboard 8.0.1 GA (14 Jul 2025)
B.2. Tungsten Dashboard 8.0.0 GA (28 Apr 2025)