This example demonstrates the usage of Kubernetes to perform a live update on a running group of pods.
This example assumes that you have forked the repository and turned up a Kubernetes cluster:
$ cd kubernetes
$ hack/dev-build-and-up.sh
This example also assumes that you have Docker installed on your local machine.
It also assumes that $DOCKER_HUB_USER
is set to your Docker user id. We use this to upload the docker images that are used in the demo.
$ export DOCKER_HUB_USER=my-docker-id
You may need to open the firewall for port 8080 using the console or the gcutil
tool. The following command will allow traffic from any source to instances tagged kubernetes-minion
:
$ gcutil addfirewall --allowed=tcp:8080 --target_tags=kubernetes-minion kubernetes-minion-8080
This can take a few minutes to download/upload stuff.
$ cd examples/update-demo
$ ./0-build-images.sh
You can use bash job control to run this in the background. This can sometimes spew to the output so you could also run it in a different terminal.
$ ./1-run-web-proxy.sh &
Running local proxy to Kubernetes API Server. Run this in a
separate terminal or run it in the background.
http://localhost:8001/static/
+ ../../cluster/kubecfg.sh -proxy -www local/
I0922 11:43:54.886018 15659 kubecfg.go:209] Starting to serve on localhost:8001
Now visit the the demo website. You won't see anything much quite yet.
Now we will turn up two replicas of an image. They all serve on port 8080, mapped to internal port 80
$ ./2-create-replication-controller.sh
After pulling the image from the Docker Hub to your worker nodes (which may take a minute or so) you'll see a couple of squares in the UI detailing the pods that are running along with the image that they are serving up. A cute little nautilus.
Now we will increase the number of replicas from two to four:
$ ./3-scale.sh
If you go back to the demo website you should eventually see four boxes, one for each pod.
We will now update the docker image to serve a different image by doing a rolling update to a new Docker image.
$ ./4-rolling-update.sh
The rollingUpdate command in kubecfg will do 2 things:
- Update the template in the replication controller to the new image (
$DOCKER_HUB_USER/update-demo:kitten
) - Kill each of the pods one by one. It'll let the replication controller create new pods to replace those that were killed.
Watch the UX, it will update one pod every 10 seconds until all of the pods have the new image.
$ ./5-down.sh
This will first 'stop' the replication controller by turning the target number of replicas to 0. It'll then delete that controller.
To turn down a Kubernetes cluster:
$ cd ../.. # Up to kubernetes.
$ cluster/kube-down.sh
Kill the proxy running in the background: After you are done running this demo make sure to kill it:
$ jobs
[1]+ Running ./1-run-web-proxy.sh &
$ kill %1
[1]+ Terminated: 15 ./1-run-web-proxy.sh
Note that he images included here are public domain.