kubernetes Cookbook

Resources for deploying various Kubernetes entities, these resources are designed to be ran on the kubernetes master but can be ran anywhere that has access to a kubernetes api by changing the ['kubernetes']['master']['ip'] attribute. These resources utilize the kubeclient ruby gem and run against the v1beta1 api.

Currently broken resources: (waiting on support for v1 api through kubeclient gem)

• Kubernetes Pod (kube_pod)
• Kubernetes Replication Controller (kube_replication_controller)
• Kubernetes Service (kube_service)

Requirements

Platforms

• All platforms where kubeclient gem can be installed

Chef

• Chef 12.9+

Cookbooks

• build-essential

Attributes

• ['kubernetes']['master']['ip'] - the address used when contacting the kubernetes api
• ['kubernetes']['master']['port'] - the port that will be used when contacting the kubernetes api
• ['kubernetes']['client_version'] - the version of the kubeclient gem to install

Resources

Kubernetes Pod (kube_pod)

Manage a standalone Kubernetes pod, there is no redundancy in a pod and is simply used to specify a group of containers to be jointly deployed on a host.

Actions

• create - default. ensures the pod is created
• destroy - ensures the pod does not exist

Attribute Parameters

• id - name attribute. The identifier used when managing the pod
• containers - required a hash of container information that will be used when creating the pod
• volumes - a hash of volume information used when specifying storage for containers
• labels - specify the labels that will be added to the pod

Examples

kube_pod "my-pod" do
  containers({
    name: 'pod-member',
    image: 'my/image'
  })
  labels "aww=yiss"
  action [:destroy,:create]
end

Kubernetes Replication Controller (kube_replication_controller)

Replication controllers are used to maintain a consistent amount of a pod at any given time using selector labels

Actions

• create - default. ensures the replication controller is created
• destroy - ensures the replication controller does not exist

Attribute Parameters

• id - name attribute. The identifier used when managing the replication controller
• containers - required a hash of container information that will be used when the replication controller needs to generate new pods
• volumes - a hash of volume information used in generating new pods
• selector - how the replication controller will ensure that enough replicas exist
• pod_labels - specify the labels added to the individual pods that are spawned off
• labels - specify the labels that will be added to the replication controller

Examples

kube_replication_controller "master-controller" do
  containers({
    name: 'redis-master',
    image: 'dockerfile/redis'
  })
  replicas 2
  selector 'role' => 'master','app' => 'redis'
  labels ['aww=yiss','motha-freakin=breadcrumbs']
  action [:destroy,:create]
end

Kubernetes Service (kube_service)

Deploy a Kubernetes service, which can be used as a basic container load balancer that routes traffic based on selector labels

Actions

• create - default. ensure the service exists
• destroy - ensure the service does not exist

Attribute Parameters

• id - name attribute. The identifier used when managing the service
• port - required the port that the service will listen on for traffic
• container_port - what port the service will route to on the selected containers defaults to the port that the service is listening on
• selector - labels that the service will use when choosing containers to route traffic to
• labels - labels that will be added to the service

Examples

kube_service "backend-service" do
  port 8005
  selector 'role' => 'backend'
end

Containers and Volumes

The syntax used when specifying containers and volumes is specific to the kubernetes api, for examples on what these can/should look like please see the kubernetes documentation/examples.

Labels

Theres a bit of magic in the helper library that allows you to specify labels as either a hash 'this' => 'that', 'app' => 'redis', an array of labels ['this=that','app=redis'], or a comma delimited string 'this=that,app=redis'. All three will be treated as the same thing when writing your resources.

License and Author

• Author:: Andre Elizondo (andre@chef.io)

Copyright 2015, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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