Aurora Dashboard

A single, powerful, and easy-to-use web dashboard for managing OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure — giving operators and developers one UI for compute, storage, networking, identity, and more across projects and regions.

Architecture

Aurora is a pnpm monorepo orchestrated with Turborepo. It contains one application and several shared packages:

aurora-dashboard/
├── apps/
│   └── aurora-portal/        # The main web application
└── packages/
    ├── signal-openstack/     # OpenStack API client
    ├── policy-engine/        # OpenStack policy (oslo.policy) evaluator
    └── config/               # Shared TypeScript and ESLint configuration

apps/aurora-portal

The portal is a full-stack application with:

• Frontend: React + Vite, served as a SPA
• Backend: Fastify server with tRPC for type-safe API routes
• Auth: OpenStack Keystone session-based authentication

The server acts as a Backend-for-Frontend (BFF), proxying and aggregating OpenStack API calls on behalf of the authenticated user.

packages/signal-openstack

A typed OpenStack HTTP client built on undici. Handles authentication tokens, service catalog resolution, session management, and error normalization across OpenStack services (Compute, Network, Storage, Identity, etc.).

packages/policy-engine

An in-browser and server-side evaluator for OpenStack's oslo.policy rule format. Parses policy files and evaluates rules against a request context — enabling fine-grained, OpenStack-native authorization in the UI without additional API roundtrips.

packages/config

Shared TypeScript compiler and ESLint configurations used across all apps and packages.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 24
• pnpm >= 9
• Access to an OpenStack environment (Keystone endpoint required — no mock mode available)

Install dependencies

pnpm install

Configure environment

cp apps/aurora-portal/.env.example apps/aurora-portal/.env

Edit .env and set at minimum:

IDENTITY_ENDPOINT="https://<your-keystone-host>/identity/v3/"

For a local OpenStack setup, DevStack works. For team access, ask in the project's GitHub Discussions or issues.

Run in development

pnpm dev

The portal starts at http://localhost:4005 by default.

Build

pnpm build

Run tests

pnpm test

Release Management

This project uses Semantic Release for automated versioning and changelog generation based on conventional commits.

See docs/semantic_release.md for full details.

Support, Feedback, Contributing

Feature requests, bug reports, and contributions are welcome via GitHub issues. See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

Security / Disclosure

If you find a security bug, follow our security policy. Do not open GitHub issues for security problems.

Code of Conduct

By participating in this project, you agree to abide by the Code of Conduct.

Licensing

Copyright 2026 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company and aurora-dashboard contributors. Please see our LICENSE for copyright and license information. Detailed information including third-party components and their licensing/copyright information is available via the REUSE tool.