Overview

This project provides an experimental operator for managing FoundationDB clusters on Kubernetes.

Running the Operator

To run the operator in your environment, you need to install the controller and the CRDs:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FoundationDB/fdb-kubernetes-operator/master/config/crd/bases/apps.foundationdb.org_foundationdbclusters.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FoundationDB/fdb-kubernetes-operator/master/config/crd/bases/apps.foundationdb.org_foundationdbbackups.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FoundationDB/fdb-kubernetes-operator/master/config/crd/bases/apps.foundationdb.org_foundationdbrestores.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/foundationdb/fdb-kubernetes-operator/master/config/samples/deployment.yaml

At that point, you can set up one of the sample clusters:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/foundationdb/fdb-kubernetes-operator/master/config/samples/cluster_local.yaml

You can see logs from the operator by running kubectl logs -f -l app=fdb-kubernetes-operator-controller-manager --container=manager. To determine whether the reconciliation has completed, you can run kubectl get foundationdbcluster sample-cluster. This will show the latest generation of the spec and the last reconciled generation of the spec. Once reconciliation has completed, these values will be the same.

Once the reconciliation is complete, you can run kubectl exec -it sample-cluster-log-1 -- fdbcli to open up a CLI on your cluster.

You can also browse the sample directory for more examples of how to configure a cluster.

Most of these examples are designed for doing local development on the operator, so there may be aspects of them that you need to adapt if you want to run in a more realistic environment.

The faultDomain stanzas in the local examples disable the operator's placement logic. This allows the operator to place multiple replicas on the same node, which is necessary for single-machine testing.

The TLS examples assume you have a certificate and key stored in Kubernetes secrets, which may not be the mechanism you want to use for your certificates. The backup examples assume you have backup credentials stored in Kubernetes secrets, so the same consideration applies.

For more information about using the operator, see the user manual.

For more information on version compatibility, see our compatibility guide.

For more information on the fields you can define on the cluster resource, see the API documentation.

Local Development

Environment Set-up

1. Install GO on your machine, see the Getting Started guide for more information.
2. Install KubeBuilder and its dependencies on your machine, see The KubeBuilder Book for more information (currently version 2.3.2 is used).
3. Set your $GOPATH, e.x. /Users/me/Code/go.
4. Install kustomize.
5. Install the foundationDB client package.
6. If you want to modify the manifests you currently need yq, we use the v4.6.1 version.

Running Locally

To get this controller running in a local Kubernetes cluster:

1. Change your current directory to $GOPATH/src/github.com using the command cd $GOPATH/src/github.com and run mkdir foundationdb to create the directory foundationdb.
2. CD into the newly created directory and clone this github repo inside $GOPATH/src/github.com/foundationdb.
3. Run config/test-certs/generate_secrets.bash to set up a secret with self-signed test certs.
4. Run make rebuild-operator to install the operator.
5. Run kubectl apply -f config/samples/cluster_local_tls.yaml to create a new FoundationDB cluster with the operator.

Testing

The test suite runs a live copy of etcd which is heavily dependent on disk I/O performance; if you encounter unexpected test failures, slow test warnings, or overall slow test runs (more than 2 minutes in duration), this may be the cause.

One workaround is to run the test suite with etcd writing to an in-memory filesystem. To configure this on Linux:

mkdir ramdisk
sudo mount -t tmpfs tempfs $(pwd)/ramdisk
export TMPDIR=$(pwd)/ramdisk

Then run the test suite under that environment.

For MacOS you can use the script located under ./scripts/setup_ramdisk_macos.sh. This script will setup a ramdisk and mount it (the default location will be ${HOME}/volatile).