kops/upup

UpUp - CloudUp & NodeUp

CloudUp and NodeUp are two tools that are aiming to replace kube-up: the easiest way to get a production Kubernetes up and running.

(Currently work in progress, but working. Some of these statements are forward-looking.)

Some of the more interesting features:

• Written in go, so hopefully easier to maintain and extend, as complexity inevitably increases
• Uses a state-sync model, so we get things like a dry-run mode and idempotency automatically
• Based on a simple meta-model defined in a directory tree
• Can produce configurations in other formats (currently Terraform & Cloud-Init), so that we can have working configurations for other tools also.

Installation

Install glide from http://glide.sh/

Build the code (make sure you have set GOPATH):

go get -d k8s.io/kube-deploy
cd ${GOPATH}/src/k8s.io/kube-deploy/upup
make

(Note that the code uses the relatively new Go vendoring, so building requires Go 1.6 or later, or you must export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 when building with Go 1.5. The makefile sets GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT for you. Go code generation does not honor the env var in 1.5, so for development you should use Go 1.6 or later)

Bringing up a cluster on AWS

• Ensure you have a DNS hosted zone set up in Route 53, e.g. myzone.com

• Pick a subdomain (or sub-subdomain) of this hosted zone, e.g. kubernetes.myzone.com or dev.k8s.myzone.com We'll call your subdomain MYZONE.

• Set AWS_PROFILE (if you need to select a profile for the AWS CLI to work)

• Execute:

export MYZONE=<kubernetes.myzone.com>
${GOPATH}/bin/cloudup --v=0 --logtostderr --cloud=aws --zones=us-east-1c --name=${MYZONE}

If you have problems, please set --v=8 --logtostderr and open an issue, and ping justinsb on slack!

Build a kubectl file

The upup tool is a CLI for doing administrative tasks. You can use it to generate the kubectl configuration:

export MYZONE=<kubernetes.myzone.com>
${GOPATH}/bin/upup kubecfg generate --state=state --name=${MYZONE} --cloud=aws

Delete the cluster

When you're done, you can also have upup delete the cluster. It will delete all AWS resources tagged with the cluster name in the specified region.

export MYZONE=<kubernetes.myzone.com>
${GOPATH}/bin/upup delete cluster --region=us-east-1 --name=${MYZONE} # --yes

You must pass --yes to actually delete resources (without the # comment!)

Other interesting modes:

• See changes that would be applied: ${GOPATH}/bin/cloudup --dryrun

• Build a terraform model: ${GOPATH}/bin/cloudup $NORMAL_ARGS --target=terraform The terraform model will be built in state/terraform

• Specify the k8s build to run: --kubernetes-version=1.2.2

• Try HA mode: --zones=us-east-1b,us-east-1c,us-east-1d

• Specify the number of nodes: --node-count=4

• Specify the node size: --node-size=m4.large

• Specify the master size: --master-size=m4.large

• Override the default DNS zone: --dns-zone=<my.hosted.zone>

How it works

Everything is driven by a local configuration directory tree, called the "model". The model represents the desired state of the world.

Each file in the tree describes a Task.

On the nodeup side, Tasks can manage files, systemd services, packages etc. On the cloudup side, Tasks manage cloud resources: instances, networks, disks etc.

Workaround for terraform bug

Terraform currently has a bug where it can't create AWS tags containing a dot. Until this is fixed, you can't use terraform to build EC2 resources that are tagged with k8s.io/... tags. Thankfully this is only the volumes, and it isn't the worst idea to build these separately anyway.

We divide the 'cloudup' model into two parts:

• models/proto which sets up the volumes and other data which would be hard to recover (e.g. likely keys & secrets in the near future)
• models/cloudup which is the main cloudup model for configuration everything else

So you don't use terraform for the 'proto' phase (you can't anyway, because of the bug!):

export MYZONE=<kubernetes.myzone.com>
${GOPATH}/bin/cloudup --v=0 --logtostderr --cloud=aws --zones=us-east-1c --name=${MYZONE} --model=proto

And then you can use terraform to do the full installation:

export MYZONE=<kubernetes.myzone.com>
${GOPATH}/bin/cloudup --v=0 --logtostderr --cloud=aws --zones=us-east-1c --name=${MYZONE} --model=cloudup --target=terraform

Then, to apply using terraform:

cd state/terraform

terraform plan
terraform apply