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IBM Cloud Private	Example multicluster mesh over two IBM Cloud Private clusters.	70	kubernetes multicluster	/docs/examples/multicluster/icp/

This example demonstrates how to setup network connectivity between two IBM Cloud Private clusters and then compose them into a multicluster mesh using a single control plane with VPN connectivity topology.

Create the IBM Cloud Private Clusters

1. Install two IBM Cloud Private clusters.

   {{< warning >}} Make sure individual cluster Pod CIDR ranges and service CIDR ranges are unique and do not overlap across the multicluster environment and may not overlap. This can be configured by network_cidr and service_cluster_ip_range in cluster/config.yaml. {{< /warning >}}

   {{< text plain >}}

   Network in IPv4 CIDR format

   network_cidr: 10.1.0.0/16

   Kubernetes Settings

   service_cluster_ip_range: 10.0.0.1/24 {{< /text >}}

2. After IBM Cloud Private cluster install finishes, validate kubectl access to each cluster. In this example, consider two clusters cluster-1 and cluster-2.

   1. Configure cluster-1 with kubectl.

   2. Check the cluster status:

      {{< text bash >}} $ kubectl get nodes $ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces {{< /text >}}

   3. Repeat above two steps to validate cluster-2.

Configure Pod Communication Across IBM Cloud Private Clusters

IBM Cloud Private uses Calico Node-to-Node Mesh by default to manage container networks. The BGP client on each node distributes the IP router information to all nodes.

To ensure pods can communicate across different clusters, you need to configure IP routers on all nodes in the cluster. You need two steps:

1. Add IP routers from cluster-1 to cluster-2.

2. Add IP routers from cluster-2 to cluster-1.

{{< warning >}} This approach works if all the nodes within the multiple IBM Cloud Private clusters are located in the same subnet. It is unable to add BGP routers directly for nodes located in different subnets because the IP addresses must be reachable with a single hop. Alternatively, you can use a VPN for pod communication across clusters. Refer to this article for more details. {{< /warning >}}

You can check how to add IP routers from cluster-1 to cluster-2 to validate pod to pod communication across clusters. With Node-to-Node Mesh mode, each node will have IP routers connecting to peer nodes in the cluster. In this example, both clusters have three nodes.

The hosts file for cluster-1:

{{< text plain >}} 9.111.255.21 gyliu-icp-1 9.111.255.129 gyliu-icp-2 9.111.255.29 gyliu-icp-3 {{< /text >}}

The hosts file for cluster-2:

{{< text plain >}} 9.111.255.152 gyliu-ubuntu-3 9.111.255.155 gyliu-ubuntu-2 9.111.255.77 gyliu-ubuntu-1 {{< /text >}}

1. Obtain routing information on all nodes in cluster-1 with the command ip route | grep bird.

   {{< text bash >}} $ ip route | grep bird 10.1.43.0/26 via 9.111.255.29 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink 10.1.158.192/26 via 9.111.255.129 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink blackhole 10.1.198.128/26 proto bird {{< /text >}}

   {{< text bash >}} $ ip route | grep bird 10.1.43.0/26 via 9.111.255.29 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink blackhole 10.1.158.192/26 proto bird 10.1.198.128/26 via 9.111.255.21 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink {{< /text >}}

   {{< text bash >}} $ ip route | grep bird blackhole 10.1.43.0/26 proto bird 10.1.158.192/26 via 9.111.255.129 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink 10.1.198.128/26 via 9.111.255.21 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink {{< /text >}}

2. There are three IP routers total for those three nodes in cluster-1.

   {{< text plain >}} 10.1.158.192/26 via 9.111.255.129 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink 10.1.198.128/26 via 9.111.255.21 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink 10.1.43.0/26 via 9.111.255.29 dev tunl0 proto bird onlink {{< /text >}}

3. Add those three IP routers to all nodes in cluster-2 by the command to follows:

   {{< text bash >}} $ ip route add 10.1.158.192/26 via 9.111.255.129 $ ip route add 10.1.198.128/26 via 9.111.255.21 $ ip route add 10.1.43.0/26 via 9.111.255.29 {{< /text >}}

4. You can use the same steps to add all IP routers from cluster-2 to cluster-1. After configuration is complete, all the pods in those two different clusters can communication with each other.

5. Verify across pod communication by pinging pod IP in cluster-2 from cluster-1. The following is a pod from cluster-2 with pod IP as 20.1.47.150.

   {{< text bash >}} $ kubectl get pods -owide -n kube-system | grep platform-ui platform-ui-lqccp 1/1 Running 0 3d 20.1.47.150 9.111.255.77 {{< /text >}}

6. From a node in cluster-1 ping the pod IP which should succeed.

   {{< text bash >}} $ ping 20.1.47.150 PING 20.1.47.150 (20.1.47.150) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 20.1.47.150: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.759 ms {{< /text >}}

The steps in this section enables Pod communication across clusters by configuring a full IP routing mesh across all nodes in the two IBM Cloud Private Clusters.

Install Istio for multicluster

Follow the VPN-based multicluster installation steps to install and configure local Istio control plane and Istio remote on cluster-1 and cluster-2.

This example uses cluster-1 as the local Istio control plane and cluster-2 as the Istio remote.

Deploy the Bookinfo example across clusters

The following example enables automatic sidecar injection.

1. Install bookinfo on the first cluster cluster-1. Remove the reviews-v3 deployment which will be deployed on cluster cluster-2 in the following step:

   {{< text bash >}} $ kubectl apply -f @samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml@ $ kubectl apply -f @samples/bookinfo/networking/bookinfo-gateway.yaml@ $ kubectl delete deployment reviews-v3 {{< /text >}}

2. Deploy the reviews-v3 service along with any corresponding services on the remote cluster-2 cluster:

   {{< text bash >}} $ cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -

   ##################################################################################################

   Ratings service

   ################################################################################################## apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: ratings labels: app: ratings spec: ports:

   • port: 9080 name: http

   ---

   ##################################################################################################

   Reviews service

   ################################################################################################## apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: reviews labels: app: reviews spec: ports:

   • port: 9080 name: http selector: app: reviews

   ---

   apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: reviews-v3 labels: app: reviews version: v3 spec: replicas: 1 template: metadata: labels: app: reviews version: v3 spec: containers: - name: reviews image: istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v3:1.10.1 imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent ports: - containerPort: 9080 {{< /text >}}

   Note: The ratings service definition is added to the remote cluster because reviews-v3 is a client of ratings and creating the service object creates a DNS entry. The Istio sidecar in the reviews-v3 pod will determine the proper ratings endpoint after the DNS lookup is resolved to a service address. This would not be necessary if a multicluster DNS solution were additionally set up, e.g. as in a federated Kubernetes environment.

3. Determine the ingress IP and ports for istio-ingressgateway's INGRESS_HOST and INGRESS_PORT variables for accessing the gateway.

   Access http://<INGRESS_HOST>:<INGRESS_PORT>/productpage repeatedly and each version of reviews should be equally load balanced, including reviews-v3 in the remote cluster (red stars). It may take several accesses (dozens) to demonstrate the equal load balancing between reviews versions.