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Google Cloud
!!! danger Typhoon for Fedora Atomic is alpha. Fedora does not publish official images for Google Cloud so you must prepare them yourself. Expect rough edges and changes.
In this tutorial, we'll create a Kubernetes v1.13.5 cluster on Google Compute Engine with Fedora Atomic.
We'll declare a Kubernetes cluster using the Typhoon Terraform module. Then apply the changes to create a network, firewall rules, health checks, controller instances, worker managed instance group, load balancers, and TLS assets. Instances are provisioned on first boot with cloud-init.
Controllers are provisioned to run an etcd
peer and a kubelet
service. Workers run just a kubelet
service. A one-time bootkube bootstrap schedules the apiserver
, scheduler
, controller-manager
, and coredns
on controllers and schedules kube-proxy
and calico
(or flannel
) on every node. A generated kubeconfig
provides kubectl
access to the cluster.
Requirements
- Google Cloud Account and Service Account
- Google Cloud DNS Zone (registered main Name or delegated subdomain)
- Terraform v0.11.x installed locally
gcloud
andgsutil
for uploading a disk image to Google Cloud (temporary)
Terraform Setup
Install Terraform v0.11.x on your system.
$ terraform version
Terraform v0.11.12
Read concepts to learn about Terraform, modules, and organizing resources. Change to your infrastructure repository (e.g. infra
).
cd infra/clusters
Provider
Login to your Google Console API Manager and select a project, or signup if you don't have an account.
Select "Credentials" and create a service account key. Choose the "Compute Engine Admin" and "DNS Administrator" roles and save the JSON private key to a file that can be referenced in configs.
mv ~/Downloads/project-id-43048204.json ~/.config/google-cloud/terraform.json
Configure the Google Cloud provider to use your service account key, project-id, and region in a providers.tf
file.
provider "google" {
version = "~> 2.2.0"
alias = "default"
credentials = "${file("~/.config/google-cloud/terraform.json")}"
project = "project-id"
region = "us-central1"
}
provider "local" {
version = "~> 1.0"
alias = "default"
}
provider "null" {
version = "~> 1.0"
alias = "default"
}
provider "template" {
version = "~> 1.0"
alias = "default"
}
provider "tls" {
version = "~> 1.0"
alias = "default"
}
Additional configuration options are described in the google
provider docs.
!!! tip
Regions are listed in docs or with gcloud compute regions list
. A project may container multiple clusters across different regions.
Atomic Image
Project Atomic does not publish official Fedora Atomic images to Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud allows custom boot images to be uploaded to a bucket and imported into your project.
Download the Fedora Atomic 28 raw image and decompress the file.
xz -d Fedora-AtomicHost-28-20180528.0.x86_64.raw.xz
!!! warning Download the exact dated version shown in docs. Fedora has no official Atomic images for Google Cloud. We've verified specific versions and found others to have problems.
Rename the image disk.raw
. Gzip compress and tar the image.
mv Fedora-AtomicHost-28-20180528.0.x86_64.raw disk.raw
tar cvzf fedora-atomic-28.tar.gz disk.raw
List available storage buckets and upload the tar.gz.
gsutil list
gsutil cp fedora-atomic-28.tar.gz gs://BUCKET_NAME
Create a Google Compute Engine image from the bucket file.
gcloud compute images list
gcloud compute images create fedora-atomic-28 --source-uri gs://BUCKET/fedora-atomic-28.tar.gz
Note your project id and the image name for setting os_image
later (e.g. proj-id/fedora-atomic-28).
Cluster
Define a Kubernetes cluster using the module google-cloud/fedora-atomic/kubernetes
.
module "google-cloud-yavin" {
source = "git::https://github.com/poseidon/typhoon//google-cloud/fedora-atomic/kubernetes?ref=v1.13.5"
providers = {
google = "google.default"
local = "local.default"
null = "null.default"
template = "template.default"
tls = "tls.default"
}
# Google Cloud
cluster_name = "yavin"
region = "us-central1"
dns_zone = "example.com"
dns_zone_name = "example-zone"
# configuration
ssh_authorized_key = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz..."
asset_dir = "/home/user/.secrets/clusters/yavin"
os_image = "MY-PROJECT_ID/fedora-atomic-28"
# optional
worker_count = 2
}
Reference the variables docs or the variables.tf source.
ssh-agent
Initial bootstrapping requires bootkube.service
be started on one controller node. Terraform uses ssh-agent
to automate this step. Add your SSH private key to ssh-agent
.
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
ssh-add -L
Apply
Initialize the config directory if this is the first use with Terraform.
terraform init
Plan the resources to be created.
$ terraform plan
Plan: 73 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.
Apply the changes to create the cluster.
$ terraform apply
module.google-cloud-yavin.null_resource.bootkube-start: Still creating... (10s elapsed)
...
module.google-cloud-yavin.null_resource.bootkube-start: Still creating... (5m30s elapsed)
module.google-cloud-yavin.null_resource.bootkube-start: Still creating... (5m40s elapsed)
module.google-cloud-yavin.null_resource.bootkube-start: Creation complete (ID: 5768638456220583358)
Apply complete! Resources: 73 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.
In 5-10 minutes, the Kubernetes cluster will be ready.
Verify
Install kubectl on your system. Use the generated kubeconfig
credentials to access the Kubernetes cluster and list nodes.
$ export KUBECONFIG=/home/user/.secrets/clusters/yavin/auth/kubeconfig
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME ROLES STATUS AGE VERSION
yavin-controller-0.c.example-com.internal controller,master Ready 6m v1.13.5
yavin-worker-jrbf.c.example-com.internal node Ready 5m v1.13.5
yavin-worker-mzdm.c.example-com.internal node Ready 5m v1.13.5
List the pods.
$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system calico-node-1cs8z 2/2 Running 0 6m
kube-system calico-node-d1l5b 2/2 Running 0 6m
kube-system calico-node-sp9ps 2/2 Running 0 6m
kube-system coredns-1187388186-dkh3o 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system coredns-1187388186-zj5dl 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system kube-apiserver-zppls 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system kube-controller-manager-3271970485-gh9kt 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system kube-controller-manager-3271970485-h90v8 1/1 Running 1 6m
kube-system kube-proxy-117v6 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system kube-proxy-9886n 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system kube-proxy-njn47 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system kube-scheduler-3895335239-5x87r 1/1 Running 0 6m
kube-system kube-scheduler-3895335239-bzrrt 1/1 Running 1 6m
kube-system pod-checkpointer-l6lrt 1/1 Running 0 6m
Going Further
Learn about maintenance and addons.
Variables
Check the variables.tf source.
Required
Name | Description | Example |
---|---|---|
cluster_name | Unique cluster name (prepended to dns_zone) | "yavin" |
region | Google Cloud region | "us-central1" |
dns_zone | Google Cloud DNS zone | "google-cloud.example.com" |
dns_zone_name | Google Cloud DNS zone name | "example-zone" |
os_image | Custom uploaded Fedora Atomic image | "PROJECT-ID/fedora-atomic-28" |
ssh_authorized_key | SSH public key for user 'fedora' | "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NZ..." |
asset_dir | Path to a directory where generated assets should be placed (contains secrets) | "/home/user/.secrets/clusters/yavin" |
Check the list of valid regions.
DNS Zone
Clusters create a DNS A record ${cluster_name}.${dns_zone}
to resolve a network load balancer backed by controller instances. This FQDN is used by workers and kubectl
to access the apiserver(s). In this example, the cluster's apiserver would be accessible at yavin.google-cloud.example.com
.
You'll need a registered domain name or delegated subdomain on Google Cloud DNS. You can set this up once and create many clusters with unique names.
resource "google_dns_managed_zone" "zone-for-clusters" {
dns_name = "google-cloud.example.com."
name = "example-zone"
description = "Production DNS zone"
}
!!! tip "" If you have an existing domain name with a zone file elsewhere, just delegate a subdomain that can be managed on Google Cloud (e.g. google-cloud.mydomain.com) and update nameservers.
Optional
Name | Description | Default | Example |
---|---|---|---|
controller_count | Number of controllers (i.e. masters) | 1 | 3 |
worker_count | Number of workers | 1 | 3 |
controller_type | Machine type for controllers | "n1-standard-1" | See below |
worker_type | Machine type for workers | "n1-standard-1" | See below |
disk_size | Size of the disk in GB | 40 | 100 |
worker_preemptible | If enabled, Compute Engine will terminate workers randomly within 24 hours | false | true |
networking | Choice of networking provider | "calico" | "calico" or "flannel" |
pod_cidr | CIDR IPv4 range to assign to Kubernetes pods | "10.2.0.0/16" | "10.22.0.0/16" |
service_cidr | CIDR IPv4 range to assign to Kubernetes services | "10.3.0.0/16" | "10.3.0.0/24" |
cluster_domain_suffix | FQDN suffix for Kubernetes services answered by coredns. | "cluster.local" | "k8s.example.com" |
Check the list of valid machine types.
Preemption
Add worker_preemeptible = "true"
to allow worker nodes to be preempted at random, but pay significantly less. Clusters tolerate stopping instances fairly well (reschedules pods, but cannot drain) and preemption provides a nice reward for running fault-tolerant cluster systems.`