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$ mkdir swarm-cluster
$ $(openstack coe cluster config --dir swarm-cluster --output-dircerts swarm-cluster)


The above command is a little magical in that it has done the following things:

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$ openstack server list -c Name -c Networks
+---------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Name                                        | Networks                                                                  |
+---------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-node-1           | default=2605:fd00:4:1000:f816:3eff:feb5:293d, 10.1.2.187                  |
| swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-node-0           | default=2605:fd00:4:1000:f816:3eff:fe09:ca6a, 10.1.2.188                  |
| swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-node-2           | default=2605:fd00:4:1000:f816:3eff:fe15:8882, 10.1.2.185                  |
| swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-primary-master-0 | default=2605:fd00:4:1000:f816:3eff:fe2a:b323, 10.1.2.184, 162.246.156.5   |


Note either the Floating IP (162.246.156.5 in the example above) or the IPv6 address of the Master node. Then do:

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$ export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://162.246.156.5:2375


After that, you now have access to a fully functional Docker Swarm cluster:

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$ docker node ls
ID                            HOSTNAME                                                STATUS              AVAILABILITY        MANAGER STATUS      ENGINE VERSION
jqm3pmupwxlcdy4bodp3ak7n2     swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-node-0.novalocal             Ready               Active                                  1.13.1
qseo32fewgiprqqxmf9otg7mb     swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-node-1.novalocal             Ready               Active                                  1.13.1
vegmr4raoiyq4j5upkvy9o6pi     swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-node-2.novalocal             Ready               Active                                  1.13.1
zpgho4soqk3qk74dbrny3r4es *   swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-primary-master-0.novalocal   Ready               Active              Leader              1.13.1


$ docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
Trying to pull repository docker.io/library/hello-world ...
sha256:3e1764d0f546ceac4565547df2ac4907fe46f007ea229fd7ef2718514bcec35d: Pulling from docker.io/library/hello-world
9bb5a5d4561a: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:3e1764d0f546ceac4565547df2ac4907fe46f007ea229fd7ef2718514bcec35d
Status: Downloaded newer image for docker.io/hello-world:latest

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.


$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS                      PORTS               NAMES
a375d7b710d8        hello-world         "/hello"            25 seconds ago      Exited (0) 23 seconds ago                       confident_kirch

Creating a Kubernetes Cluster

First, install kubectl if it isn't already installed.

On the Rapid Access Cloud Dashboard

Coming Soon.

On the Command-Line

Make sure you have the OpenStack command-line tools installed.

Next, install the python-magnumclient package:

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# On Linux
$ sudo pip install python-magnumclient


# On Mac
$ pip install --user python-magnumclient


Next, choose a Cluster Template. You can view the available templates by doing:

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$ source /path/to/your/rc/file
$ openstack coe cluster template list

+--------------------------------------+-----------------------+
| uuid                                 | name                  |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------+
| e27d8d86-b051-4a8d-98cf-b8cd6afa7df4 | k8s-ipv6-medium       |
| 258b877b-8256-4612-ba2c-1cde512570c8 | k8s-ipv6-large        |
| d397c572-b93b-47ed-8ea0-d824ea90cea9 | k8s-ipv6-xlarge       |
| 6b1af9f0-c073-464b-9552-eb233ab993b2 | k8s-floating-medium   |
| 1e1d58d7-e6b1-4922-a44b-790cc2cc5b66 | k8s-floating-large    |
| fd52ee79-c7a7-43d9-b3a6-fe4080ad7143 | k8s-floating-xlarge   |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------------+

Next, create a cluster:

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$ openstack coe cluster create kubernetes-cluster --cluster-template k8s-floating-medium --master-count 1 --node-count 3 --keypair mykey --docker-volume-size=10
Request to create cluster 54b4d4e5-1952-415b-b2ac-af0cfcdb9af2 accepted


There are a few things to note about this command:

  • The above command will create a cluster of 4 total nodes: 1 master and 3 workers. All will be m1.medium instances.
  • Clusters only support a single master at this time, so you always need to use --master-count 1.
  • --keypair must be an existing Key Pair.
  • --docker-volume-size is required. The example above will have 4 volumes of 10 gigabytes created. One volume will be attached to each node of your cluster.

Note

You must make sure you have the appropriate quota available to create a cluster. In the above example, you would need to be able to create the following:

  • 1 x Floating IP
  • 4 x m1.medium instances
  • 4 x volumes
  • 40gb block storage

The above possible to do with the Rapid Access Cloud's default quota and no existing resources running.


You can watch the status of the cluster creation by taking the printed UUID and doing:

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$ openstack coe cluster show 54b4d4e5-1952-415b-b2ac-af0cfcdb9af2

+---------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Field               | Value                                                      |
+---------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| status              | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS                                         |
| cluster_template_id | 6b1af9f0-c073-464b-9552-eb233ab993b2                       |
| node_addresses      | []                                                         |
| uuid                | 54b4d4e5-1952-415b-b2ac-af0cfcdb9af2                       |
| stack_id            | dae1f0c4-6118-4ef2-9aab-80a5b6958ef6                       |
| status_reason       | None                                                       |
| created_at          | 2018-07-11T05:56:38+00:00                                  |
| updated_at          | 2018-07-11T05:56:54+00:00                                  |
| coe_version         | None                                                       |
| labels              | {u'cert_manager_api': u'true'}                             |
| faults              |                                                            |
| keypair             | cybera                                                     |
| api_address         | None                                                       |
| master_addresses    | []                                                         |
| create_timeout      | 60                                                         |
| node_count          | 2                                                          |
| discovery_url       | https://discovery.etcd.io/56688682e6f32db3f45bfc6b2b82d1a1 |
| master_count        | 1                                                          |
| container_version   | None                                                       |
| name                | kubernetes-cluster                                         |
| master_flavor_id    | m1.medium                                                  |
| flavor_id           | m1.medium                                                  |
+---------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+


Note

Wait until the status reads CREATE_COMPLETE before proceeding to the next step.


Next, download the COE authentication information:

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$ mkdir kubernetes-cluster
$ $(openstack coe cluster config --dir kubernetes-cluster --diroutput-certs kubernetes-cluster)


The above command will generate a Kubernetes configuration file and install the SSL certificates for your cluster to the kubernetes-cluster directory.

By default, the configuration file is set to communicate with the Kubernetes cluster by its private IP address. Private IPs are not accessible unless you use the RAC VPN. Alternatively, you can change the configuration file to use the Floating IP or IPv6 address of your master node. To do this, do the following:


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$ openstack server list -c Name -c Networks
+---------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Name                                        | Networks                                                                  |
+---------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| kubernetes-cluster-brs4edkzdppp-minion-1    | default=2605:fd00:4:1000:f816:3eff:fe8f:a992, 10.1.2.251                  |
| kubernetes-cluster-brs4edkzdppp-minion-0    | default=2605:fd00:4:1000:f816:3eff:fe2e:546d, 10.1.2.250                  |
| kubernetes-cluster-brs4edkzdppp-master-0    | default=2605:fd00:4:1000:f816:3eff:fe46:f51c, 10.1.2.249, 162.246.156.70   |


Note either the Floating IP (162.246.156.5 in the example above) or the IPv6 address of the Master node. Then edit the configuration file found under kubernetes-cluster/config and find the line that starts with server. Change this line to read:

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server: https://162.246.156.70:6443


After that, you now have access to a fully functional Kubernetes cluster:

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$ kubectl -n kube-system get pods
NAME                                    READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
coredns-5864cfd79d-86wgm                1/1       Running   0          12m
heapster-68b976dd7-fkckb                1/1       Running   0          12m
kubernetes-dashboard-846b8b6844-5p54j   1/1       Running   0          12m


$ kubectl run nginx --image=nginx --replicas=5
deployment.apps/nginx created


$ kubectl get pods
NAME                   READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nginx-8586cf59-2g4bp   1/1       Running   0          30s
nginx-8586cf59-cw4x2   1/1       Running   0          30s
nginx-8586cf59-gnz6m   1/1       Running   0          30s
nginx-8586cf59-hr7x4   1/1       Running   0          30s
nginx-8586cf59-mhcv5   1/1       Running   0          30s


Security Groups

By default, your COE cluster has a very strict security group configured. This is to prevent security incident mishaps such as accidentally publishing ElasticSearch, MongoDB, or similar services. When you want to make a service publicly accessible, edit your cluster's security group. You can see the group by doing the following:

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$ openstack security group list | grep cluster

| c22cd9ba-6098-42b9-8a36-ff00b48924b4 | swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-secgroup_swarm_manager-rzqnqkkw4mfd |
| ee5d6145-373e-42bf-9b5d-57372f8f20a3 | swarm-cluster-aq5dpyxwpte5-secgroup_swarm_node-iyghtvtxxg3l    |

And then adding a rule to the "manager" group using either the command-line or dashboard.

Using Swarm

General documentation on Docker Swarm can be found here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/

As a quick demo of Swarm's capabilities, let's deploy a Consul cluster.


Note

This is only for demo purposes and should not be used in any production capacity


First, create a file called consul.yaml with the following contents:

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version: "3"

networks:
  consul:
    driver: overlay

services:
  seed:
    image: consul:latest
    networks:
      - consul
    deploy:
      mode: global
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role == manager
    environment:
      - "CONSUL_LOCAL_CONFIG={\"disable_update_check\": true}"
      - "CONSUL_BIND_INTERFACE=eth0"
    entrypoint:
      - consul
      - agent
      - -server
      - -bootstrap-expect=3
      - -data-dir=/tmp/consuldata
      - -bind={{ GetInterfaceIP "eth0" }}

  node:
    image: consul:latest
    networks:
      - consul
    depends_on:
      - seed
    deploy:
      replicas: 3
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role != manager
    environment:
      - "CONSUL_LOCAL_CONFIG={\"disable_update_check\": true}"
      - "CONSUL_BIND_INTERFACE=eth0"
      - "CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR=0.0.0.0"
    entrypoint:
      - consul
      - agent
      - -server
      - -data-dir=/tmp/consuldata
      - -bind={{ GetInterfaceIP "eth0" }}
      - -client=0.0.0.0
      - -retry-join=seed:8301
      - -ui
    ports:
      - "8500:8500"
      - "8600:8600"

Next, deploy the cluster. This assumes you have set the appropriate environment variables described in the above "Creating a Swarm Cluster" instructions.

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$ docker stack deploy -c consul.yaml consul

Creating network consul_consul
Creating service consul_node
Creating service consul_seed

You can see the status of the cluster by doing:

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$ docker service list
ID                  NAME                 MODE                REPLICAS            IMAGE               PORTS
1q2qkzitxqp6        consul_node          replicated          3/3                 consul:latest       *:8500->8500/tcp, *:8600->8600/tcp
oxuoch7c5nex        consul_seed          global              1/1                 consul:latest

Once all of the replicas are running, the cluster has finished building. Next, wait until the nodes have joined each other. You can view the status by reading the logs:

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$ docker service logs consul_seed


...
2018/07/23 16:23:29 [INFO] consul: member '7b8eee98fcaf' joined, marking health alive
2018/07/23 16:23:29 [INFO] consul: member '434de12113d3' joined, marking health alive
2018/07/23 16:23:29 [INFO] consul: member '70a8bf94d84a' joined, marking health alive
...

Finally, try using the Consul cluster. You need to make sure you add Port 8500 to your security group as mentioned in the "Security Group" section above.

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$ curl -X PUT -d "Hello World!" http://<floating ip or ipv6>:8500/v1/kv/hello
true


$ curl http://<floating ip or ipv6>:8500/v1/kv/hello
[{"LockIndex":0,"Key":"hello","Flags":0,"Value":"SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh","CreateIndex":43,"ModifyIndex":43}]


$ curl http://<floating ip or ipv6>:8500/v1/kv/hello?raw
Hello World!

When finished, you can easily tear down the cluster:

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$ docker stack rm consul


Removing service consul_node
Removing service consul_seed
Removing network consul_consul