Assignment

Requirements

Please make sure you have kubectl and helm installed on your system.
Also, make sure you fork this repository and clone your fork locally.

In order to be able to connect to the Kubernetes cluster extract the contents of the kube-assignment.tgz (sent via e-mail) under your home directory.

$ cd ~
$ tar zxvf kube-assignment.tgz
$ ls -l ~/kube-assignment/
$ export KUBECONFIG=~/kube-assignment/kubeconfig.yaml
$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=~/kube-assignment/service-account-key.json

and verify connectivity to the cluster. For example:

$ kubectl get ns
$ kubectl version

TASK 1: Install an Ingress Controller to the K8s cluster

• Install Traefik ingress controller to the cluster using the provided loadbalancer IP: 34.136.78.189.
• Install it under the kube-ingress namespace.

Notes

• There is a Reserved Public IP in Google Cloud for this task: 34.136.78.189
• There is also a DNS A record for socking.devops.atypon.com already configured.
• Suggested approach is to install traefik-ingress using the official Traefik Chart.
• If using traefik-ingress Helm chart, the property to set the LoadBalancerIP is --set service.spec.loadBalancerIP=34.136.78.189.
• There are no active Kubernetes worker nodes deployed in the cluster. They will be deployed once you install your first workload.

TASK 2: Install the microservices-demo application

Please do NOT modify the given resources (limits & requests) in the chart.
They are well defined and they are not related with any errors.

• The helm-charts folder contains a single Helm chart for deploying all the involved services. Please, install the given chart under the microservices-demo namespace.
• Once the frond-end is ready, you should be able to access the service from http://socking.devops.atypon.com. (HTTP not HTTPs)

Screenshot

TASK 3: Troubleshooting

• When you are done with your installation you may notice that 2 services (carts & user) are not marked as Ready and Kubernetes keeps restarting the services. This has an impact to the site as it is not working properly.

$ kubectl -n microservices-demo get pods  | grep -E '0/1'
carts-bb5cb9ddd-64dwp           0/1     Running   10         80m
user-8547d89b-c2d2k             0/1     Running   15         80m

• Please make sure to identify the issues, and try to fix them by redeploying your changes.

Notes

kubectl subcommands logs, describe & events -w may come handy for this task.
In addition, reviewing the template files for these Deployments objects in Kubernetes may help you to identify the issues.

TASK 4: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (Optional task)

• Under autoscaling folder there are sample configurations for enabling Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. You may pick up any configuration, for any service and integrate it to the chart or deploy it to the K8s cluster (using kubectl apply -f). This is an optional task.

TASK 5: Pull Request

Once you have identified the issues, please make sure you commit your changes to your forked repository and open a Pull Request to this repository.

Cleanup

When done please do not remove the services in order to be able to review your progress.

If, for any reason, you need to cleanup your work (eg in case of a mistake)

# delete the microservice
$ helm -n microservices-demo list
$ helm -n microservices-demo delete <your_helm_release_name>
$ kubectl delete ns microservices-demo

# delete the ingress
$ helm -n kube-ingress list
$ helm -n kube-ingress delete <your_helm_release_name>
$ kubectl delete ns kube-ingress