Managing projects

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Mission Control organizes clusters by projects. A project is a logical grouping of clusters. For example, you might have a project for each environment (dev, test, prod), or for each team (team1, team2, team3).

Through the Mission Control User Interface (UI)

DataStax Mission Control provides a UI through the IP address of any node using port 30880 on the Control-Plane cluster. For example, issue https://10.0.0.3:30880 from a web browser, where 10.0.0.3 is the qualifying node’s IP address.

Creating a new project

The first item in the sidebar gives you access to the list of projects. Click on Projects → to display the list of existing projects. In that list click on + New Project to create a new project:

The following dialog opens:

Enter a name for the project and click on the Create Project button. The Project Slug is a unique identifier that is generated by DataStax Mission Control. The new project is created and you can click on its name in the Projects → list to access it.

Through a Command Line Interface (CLI)

The Kubernetes kubectl command-line tool, v1.22 or later, enables you to run commands programmatically against Kubernetes (K8s) clusters through the K8s API server.

Creating a new project

Projects are special namespaces that have two additional fields:

A mission-control.datastax.com/is-project label set to true
A mission-control.datastax.com/project-name annotation set to the project name

The project slug is used as the name for the namespace and generated by DataStax Mission Control when a project is created. Here is an example of a project definition:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: <project-slug>
  labels:
    mission-control.datastax.com/is-project: "true"
  annotations:
    mission-control.datastax.com/project-name: "My Project"

After saving this manifest to a file (example, my-project.yaml), you can create the project with the following command:

kubectl apply -f my-project.yaml

Deleting a project

Deleting a project is as simple as deleting the namespace:

kubectl delete namespace my-project

Modifying a project name

The project name is stored in the mission-control.datastax.com/project-name annotation. You can modify it with the following command:

kubectl annotate namespace my-project mission-control.datastax.com/project-name="New Project Name"  --overwrite

Substitute the namespace of the chosen project for the my-project placeholder and the new project name in the "New Project Name" placeholder.