Admin Panel (master issue)

[FelixMalfait]

Context

We're taking a number of initiatives to make it easier for people to self-host. One of them is the introduction of an admin panel for server admins. Most config should be manageabl from DB, not env.

Sub-issues to create

• [ ] Create a table in core to store the the configVariables. Have a smart cache system to retrieve them through environmentService across the app (fall back on env value).
• [ ] Create a new config variable IS_SERVER_CONFIGURED, pass it in ClientConfig, default value is false, set it to TRUE upon first user creation
• [ ] Create a new column canAccessAdminPanel on users table
• [ ] Create a new /admin index page that is only accessible for people with canAccessAdminPanel permission. Display an hello world for v2. This page will only be accessible to a tiny portion of users so it would be good to consider lazy loading options (micro-frontend? or simply use react-lazy?)
• [ ] Create a page to manage config variables in admin panel
• [ ] Create a page to run data synchronization commands in admin panel
• [ ] Create a page dedicated to monitoring in admin panel
• [ ] Create a page dedicated to impersonation in admin panel
• [ ] Create a page dedicated to features flags in admin panel
• [ ] Env var to disable admin panel entirely

[ehconitin]

This looks fun! Could this issue be broken into small parts to work on?

[FelixMalfait]

@ehconitin sorry for the late reply! I guess what you could do is:

• create canAccessAdminPanel on users table
• make sure the first user that is created as canAccessAdminPanel set to true (also set canImpersonate to true)
• add a section Server on the admin panel with 1 page (you could do the list of users with a button "impersonat", the list of featureFlags, list of keyValuePair, a basic monitoring page with info about redis queues, etc.)

That would be a great start! If we have that mechanism to create those private pages for system admins we would probably built upon it more often!

Forgot about the instructions I added in the initial post!