Kubereq

Used by kubegen to build Resource based Kubernetes API clients using Req with kubereq.

While this library can be used directly, it is easier to let kubegen generate the API client modules for you. The resulting clients are then using kubereq to get the prepared Req.Request struct and make the requests to the Kubernetes API Server.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding kubereq to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:kubereq, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

The docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/kubereq.

Usage with kubegen

Unless you want to build your clients yourself, you can use kubegen to generate clients for each resource kind you need. Check out kubegen.

Build your own clients

### Define how to load the Kubernetes Config

In order to get started quickly, you can just use the default pipeline (Kubereq.Kubeconfig.Default) which tries to load the Kubernetes configuration one-by-one from well-known sources.

If you need more sophisticated rules, you can build your own Kubeconfig loader pipeline by creating a module use-ing Pluggable.StepBuilder and adding Pluggable steps defined by this module. The mechanism is exactly the same as you know from the Plug library.

In fact, the default pipeline mentioned above is implemented defining a set of steps.

defmodule Kubereq.Kubeconfig.Default do
  use Pluggable.StepBuilder

  step Kubereq.Kubeconfig.ENV
  step Kubereq.Kubeconfig.File, path: ".kube/config", relative_to_home?: true
  step Kubereq.Kubeconfig.ServiceAccount
end

### Load the Kubernetes Config

With the pipeline defined or implemented, you can now call Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load/1 to load the config:

Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load(Kubereq.Kubeconfig.Default)

If your pipelines requires options, you can pass a tuple to Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load/1:

Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load({Kubereq.Kubeconfig.File, path: ".kube/config", relative_to_home?: true})

Instead of creating a new module, you can also pass a list of steps to Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load/1:

Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load([
  Kubereq.Kubeconfig.ENV,
  {Kubereq.Kubeconfig.File, path: ".kube/config", relative_to_home?: true},
  Kubereq.Kubeconfig.ServiceAccount
])

Building the Req.Request struct

Once you have loaded the, you can pass it to Kubereq.new/2 to get a %Req.Request{} struct which is prepared to make requests to the Kubernetes API Server for a specific resource kind. It expects the kubeconf as first argument and the path to the resource as second argument. The path should contain placeholders for :namespace and :name which are filled once you make a request to a specific resource.

The following example builds a %Req.Request{} which acts as client for running operations on ConfigMaps:

kubeconfig = Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load(Kubereq.Kubeconfig.Default)
req = Kubereq.new(kubeconfig, "api/v1/namespaces/:namespace/configmaps/:name")

Running Operations

With the req built above, you can now use the other functions defined by Kubereq to run operations - in this example on ConfigMaps.

kubeconfig = Kubereq.Kubeconfig.load(Kubereq.Kubeconfig.Default)
req = Kubereq.new(kubeconfig, "api/v1/namespaces/:namespace/configmaps/:name")

{:ok, resp} = Kubereq.get(req, "my-namespace", "my-config-map")

resp is a Req.Response.t() and you can check for req.status and get req.body etc.