Kubetel

Kubetel is a tool that works in conjunction with KCD to better track deployments, as well as collect relevent information when deployments fail.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Architecture
• Usage

Architecture

Kubetel has 2 main components:

• Kubetel Controller
  • Creates a tracker job when KCD starts a a deploy
  • Clean old jobs from the API server
• Deployment tracker
  • Watches deployments and KCD of tracked deployments
  • Grabs pod contianer logs of failed deployments
  • Creates deployment messages when are sent to either http or SQS to get aggrigated and processed

Usage

Building Kubetel

make build
docker build -t wish/kubetel

Running in KIND

./deploy/kind/setup.sh

Applying to a Kubernetes cluster

Example Kubectl, yaml specs and Helm chart spec are still #TODO, However the configuation spec can be found here and the required RBAC configuation can be found here

Updating kubernetes version

Currently we are running kubernetes-1.10.11 Instructions to update the client-go and autogen code can be found here