Configure Mission Control’s User Interface (UI)

Mission Control deploys the UI as a web service on port 30880. You can connect to it from any platform or database worker node on the control plane. You can open the UI service using any of the following methods:

Use a load balancer. DataStax recommends this option for production environments.
Use the IP address of a worker node.
Port-forward the web interface with the kubectl tool.

Load balancer
IP address
Port-forward

In production environments, DataStax recommends that you put the UI service behind a load balancer to direct traffic to all worker nodes on the control plane. This allows you to use the load balancer to ensure high availability in case a worker node fails.

Open the UI in a web browser using this URL format:

https://LOADBALANCER_IP_ADDRESS:30880/

Replace LOADBALANCER_IP_ADDRESS with the IP address of your load balancer.

You can view the UI on a web browser using the IP address of any of the worker nodes using the following URL format:

https://IP_ADDRESS:30880

Replace IP_ADDRESS with the IP address of any worker node.

You can open the UI locally on your workstation with Kubernetes port-forwarding.

Follow these steps to forward the UI service:

Run the kubectl port-forward command to forward traffic on local port 30880 to the remote UI pod’s port 8080.
```
kubectl port-forward svc/mission-control-ui -n mission-control 30880:8080
```
This opens a local port on your workstation to the remote cluster and forwards traffic to the appropriate services within the control plane.
Enter the following URL into your web browser to open the Mission Control UI through the host’s IP address.
```
https://localhost:30880/
```
Press Ctrl+C to terminate the port-forward command and disable the UI on localhost. To enable local access to the UI again, rerun the port-forward command.

Configure Mission Control’s User Interface (UI)

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