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• Knitnet Operator
  • Architecture
    • Purpose
    • Supported Features
  • Getting Started
    • Demo
    • Example
    • Prerequisites
    • Quickstart
    • Verify
    • Quickstart with Ansible

Knitnet Operator

A Golang based knitnet operator that will make/oversee Submariner components on top of the Kubernetes.

Architecture

Purpose

The purpose of creating this operator was to provide an easy and production-grade setup of Submariner components on Kubernetes. It doesn't care if you have a plain on-prem Kubernetes or cloud-based.

Supported Features

Here the features which are supported by this operator:-

• Deploy submariner broker
• Join cluster to broker
• Check k8s server version
• Support cloud prepare (aws, gcp)
• Support lighthouse, globalnet enable/disable

Getting Started

Demo

A simple demo for deploy broker cluster, join other clusters to the broker cluster, verify service discovery

Example

The configuration of Knitnet setup should be described in Knitnet CRD. You will find all the examples manifests in example folder.

Prerequisites

Knitnet operator requires a Kubernetes cluster of version >=1.15.0. If you have just started with Operators, its highly recommended to use latest version of Kubernetes. And the prepare 2 cluster, example cluster-a and cluster-b

Quickstart

The setup can be done by using kustomize.

1. Clone source code

   git clone https://github.com/tkestack/knitnet-operator.git
   cd knitnet-operator

2. Setup goproxy (optional)

   If you cannot access GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct", try goproxy.cn

   go env -w GOPROXY=https://goproxy.cn,direct

3. Deploy broker

   • Install knitnet operator

     Switch to cluster-a

     kubectl config use-context cluster-a

     Deploy operator

     make deploy

   • Setup publicAPIServerURL

     Add publicAPIServerURL in ./config/samples/deploy_broker.yaml, https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:pppp must be a public apiserver address, this address should be access by joined cluster. Find the public apiserver URL with command: kubectl config view | grep server | cut -f 2- -d ":" | tr -d " "

     apiVersion: operator.tkestack.io/v1alpha1
     kind: Knitnet
     metadata:
       name: deploy-broker-sample
     spec:
       brokerConfig:
         publicAPIServerURL: https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:pppp
         # defaultGlobalnetClusterSize: 65336
         serviceDiscoveryEnabled: true

   • Deploy broker on cluster-a

     kubectl -n knitnet-operator-system apply -f ./config/samples/deploy_broker.yaml

   • Export submariner-broker-info configmap to a yaml file

     kubectl -n submariner-k8s-broker get cm submariner-broker-info -oyaml > submariner-broker-info.yaml

4. Join cluster to broker

   • Install knitnet operator

     Switch to cluster-b

     kubectl config use-context cluster-b

     Deploy operator

     make deploy

   • Create submariner-broker-info configmap

     kubectl create ns submariner-k8s-broker
     kubectl apply -f submariner-broker-info.yaml

   • Join cluster-b to cluster-a

     kubectl -n knitnet-operator-system apply -f ./config/samples/join_broker.yaml

Verify

1. Deploy ClusterIP service on cluster-b

   Switch to cluster-b

   kubectl config use-context cluster-b

   Deploy nginx service

   kubectl -n default create deployment nginx --image=nginx
   kubectl -n default expose deployment nginx --port=80

2. Export service

   Create following resource on cluster-b:

   kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
   apiVersion: multicluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha1
   kind: ServiceExport
   metadata:
     name: nginx
     namespace: default
   EOF

3. Run nettest from cluster-a to access the nginx service:

   Switch to cluster-a

   kubectl config use-context cluster-a

   Start nettest pod for test

   kubectl -n default  run --generator=run-pod/v1 tmp-shell --rm -i --tty --image quay.io/submariner/nettest -- /bin/bash

   For kubectl version > 1.18

   kubectl run --rm -it --image=quay.io/submariner/nettest nettest -- /bin/bash

   Try to curl nginx service created in cluster-b

   curl nginx.default.svc.clusterset.local

Quickstart with Ansible

I don't have any kubernetes cluster, I want a one-click deployment, he came deploy submariner with ansible