#Configuring kubernetes on Fedora via Ansible.
Configuring kubernetes on Fedora via Ansible offers a simple way to quickly create a clustered environment with little effort.
Requirements:
- Host able to run ansible and able to clone the following repo: kubernetes-ansible
- A Fedora 20+ or RHEL7 host to act as cluster master
- As many Fedora 20+ or RHEL7 hosts as you would like, that act as cluster minions
The hosts can be virtual or bare metal. The only requirement to make the ansible network setup work is that all of the machines are connected via the same layer 2 network.
Ansible will take care of the rest of the configuration for you - configuring networking, installing packages, handling the firewall, etc... This example will use one master and two minions.
Hosts:
fed1 (master) = 192.168.121.205
fed2 (minion) = 192.168.121.84
fed3 (minion) = 192.168.121.116
Make sure your local machine has ansible installed
yum install -y ansible
Clone the kubernetes-ansible repo on the host running Ansible.
git clone https://github.com/eparis/kubernetes-ansible.git
cd kubernetes-ansible
Tell ansible about each machine and its role in your cluster.
Get the IP addresses from the master and minions. Add those to the inventory file at the root of the repo on the host running Ansible. Ignore the kube_ip_addr= option for a moment.
[masters]
192.168.121.205
[etcd]
192.168.121.205
[minions]
192.168.121.84 kube_ip_addr=[ignored]
192.168.121.116 kube_ip_addr=[ignored]
Tell ansible which user has ssh access (and sudo access to root)
edit: group_vars/all.yml
ansible_ssh_user: root
If you already have ssh access to every machine using ssh public keys you may skip to configuring the network
Create a password file.
The password file should contain the root password for every machine in the cluster. It will be used in order to lay down your ssh public key.
echo "password" > ~/rootpassword
Agree to accept each machine's ssh public key
ansible-playbook -i inventory ping.yml # This will look like it fails, that's ok
Push your ssh public key to every machine
ansible-playbook -i inventory keys.yml
If you already have configured your network and docker will use it correctly, skip to setting up the cluster
The ansible scripts are quite hacky configuring the network, see the README
Configure the ip addresses which should be used to run pods on each machine
The IP address pool used to assign addresses to pods for each minion is the kube_ip_addr= option. Choose a /24 to use for each minion and add that to you inventory file.
[minions]
192.168.121.84 kube_ip_addr=10.0.1.0
192.168.121.116 kube_ip_addr=10.0.2.0
Run the network setup playbook
ansible-playbook -i inventory hack-network.yml
Configure the IP addresses used for services
Each kubernetes service gets its own IP address. These are not real IPs. You need only select a range of IPs which are not in use elsewhere in your environment. This must be done even if you do not use the network setup provided by the ansible scripts.
edit: group_vars/all.yml
kube_service_addresses: 10.254.0.0/16
Tell ansible to get to work!
ansible-playbook -i inventory setup.yml
That's all there is to it. It's really that easy. At this point you should have a functioning kubernetes cluster.
Show services running on masters and minions.
systemctl | grep -i kube
Show firewall rules on the masters and minions.
iptables -nvL
Create the following apache.json file and deploy pod to minion.
cat ~/apache.json
{
"id": "fedoraapache",
"kind": "Pod",
"apiVersion": "v1beta1",
"desiredState": {
"manifest": {
"version": "v1beta1",
"id": "fedoraapache",
"containers": [{
"name": "fedoraapache",
"image": "fedora/apache",
"ports": [{
"containerPort": 80,
"hostPort": 80
}]
}]
}
},
"labels": {
"name": "fedoraapache"
}
}
/usr/bin/kubectl create -f apache.json
Check where the pod was created
/usr/bin/kubectl get pod fedoraapache
Check Docker status on minion.
docker ps
docker images
After the pod is 'Running' Check web server access on the minion
curl http://localhost