kubespray/contrib/terraform/openstack

Kubernetes on Openstack with Terraform

Provision a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform on Openstack.

Status

This will install a Kubernetes cluster on an Openstack Cloud. It should work on most modern installs of OpenStack that support the basic services.

Approach

The terraform configuration inspects variables found in variables.tf to create resources in your OpenStack cluster. There is a python script that reads the generated.tfstate file to generate a dynamic inventory that is consumed by the main ansible script to actually install kubernetes and stand up the cluster.

Networking

The configuration includes creating a private subnet with a router to the external net. It will allocate floating-ips from a pool and assign them to the hosts where that makes sense. You have the option of creating bastion hosts inside the private subnet to access the nodes there.

Kubernetes Nodes

You can create many different kubernetes topologies by setting the number of different classes of hosts. For each class there are options for allocating floating ip addresses or not.

• Master Nodes with etcd
• Master nodes without etcd
• Standalone etcd hosts
• Kubernetes worker nodes

Note that the ansible script will report an invalid configuration if you wind up with an even number of etcd instances since that is not a valid configuration.

Gluster FS

The terraform configuration supports provisioning of an optional GlusterFS shared file system based on a separate set of VMs. To enable this, you need to specify

• the number of gluster hosts
• Size of the non-ephemeral volumes to be attached to store the GlusterFS bricks
• Other properties related to provisioning the hosts

Even if you are using Container Linux by CoreOS for your cluster, you will still need the GlusterFS VMs to be based on either Debian or RedHat based images, Container Linux by CoreOS cannot serve GlusterFS, but can connect to it through binaries available on hyperkube v1.4.3_coreos.0 or higher.

Requirements

• Install Terraform
• Install Ansible
• you already have a suitable OS image in glance
• you already have a floating-ip pool created
• you have security-groups enabled
• you have a pair of keys generated that can be used to secure the new hosts

Module Architecture

The configuration is divided into three modules:

• Network
• IPs
• Compute

The main reason for splitting the configuration up in this way is to easily accommodate situations where floating IPs are limited by a quota or if you have any external references to the floating IP (e.g. DNS) that would otherwise have to be updated.

You can force your existing IPs by modifying the compute variables in kubespray.tf as

k8s_master_fips = ["151.101.129.67"]
k8s_node_fips = ["151.101.129.68"]

Terraform

Terraform will be used to provision all of the OpenStack resources. It is also used to deploy and provision the software requirements.

Prep

OpenStack

Ensure your OpenStack Identity v2 credentials are loaded in environment variables. This can be done by downloading a credentials .rc file from your OpenStack dashboard and sourcing it:

$ source ~/.stackrc

Ensure that you have your Openstack credentials loaded into Terraform environment variables. Likely via a command similar to:

$ echo Setting up Terraform creds && \
  export TF_VAR_username=${OS_USERNAME} && \
  export TF_VAR_password=${OS_PASSWORD} && \
  export TF_VAR_tenant=${OS_TENANT_NAME} && \
  export TF_VAR_auth_url=${OS_AUTH_URL}

Terraform Variables

The construction of the cluster is driven by values found in variables.tf.

The best way to set these values is to create a file in the project's root directory called something likemy-terraform-vars.tfvars. Many of the variables are obvious. Here is a summary of some of the more interesting ones:

Variable	Description
cluster_name	All OpenStack resources will use the Terraform variablecluster_name (defaultexample) in their name to make it easier to track. For example the first compute resource will be namedexample-kubernetes-1.
network_name	The name to be given to the internal network that will be generated
dns_nameservers	An array of DNS name server names to be used by hosts in the internal subnet.
floatingip_pool	Name of the pool from which floating IPs will be allocated
external_net	UUID of the external network that will be routed to
flavor_k8s_master,flavor_k8s_node,flavor_etcd, flavor_bastion,flavor_gfs_node	Flavor depends on your openstack installation, you can get available flavor IDs throughnova flavor-list
image,image_gfs	Name of the image to use in provisioning the compute resources. Should already be loaded into glance.
ssh_user,ssh_user_gfs	The username to ssh into the image with. This usually depends on the image you have selected
public_key_path	Path on your local workstation to the public key file you wish to use in creating the key pairs
number_of_k8s_masters, number_of_k8s_masters_no_floating_ip	Number of nodes that serve as both master and etcd. These can be provisioned with or without floating IP addresses
number_of_k8s_masters_no_etcd, number_of_k8s_masters_no_floating_ip_no_etcd	Number of nodes that serve as just master with no etcd. These can be provisioned with or without floating IP addresses
number_of_etcd	Number of pure etcd nodes
number_of_k8s_nodes, number_of_k8s_nodes_no_floating_ip	Kubernetes worker nodes. These can be provisioned with or without floating ip addresses.
number_of_bastions	Number of bastion hosts to create. Scripts assume this is really just zero or one
number_of_gfs_nodes_no_floating_ip	Number of gluster servers to provision.
gfs_volume_size_in_gb	Size of the non-ephemeral volumes to be attached to store the GlusterFS bricks

Initializing Terraform

Before Terraform can operate on your cluster you need to install required plugins. This is accomplished with the command

$ terraform init contrib/terraform/openstack

Provisioning Cluster with Terraform

You can apply the terraform config to your cluster with the following command issued from the project's root directory

$ terraform apply -state=contrib/terraform/openstack/terraform.tfstate -var-file=my-terraform-vars.tfvars contrib/terraform/openstack

if you chose to create a bastion host, this script will create contrib/terraform/openstack/k8s-cluster.yml with an ssh command for ansible to be able to access your machines tunneling through the bastion's ip adress. If you want to manually handle the ssh tunneling to these machines, please delete or move that file. If you want to use this, just leave it there, as ansible will pick it up automatically.

Destroying Cluster with Terraform

You can destroy a config deployed to your cluster with the following command issued from the project's root directory

$ terraform destroy -state=contrib/terraform/openstack/terraform.tfstate -var-file=my-terraform-vars.tfvars contrib/terraform/openstack

Debugging Cluster Provisioning

You can enable debugging output from Terraform by setting OS_DEBUG to 1 andTF_LOG toDEBUG before runing the terraform command

Running the Ansible Script

Ensure your local ssh-agent is running and your ssh key has been added. This step is required by the terraform provisioner:

$ eval $(ssh-agent -s)
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Make sure you can connect to the hosts:

$ ansible -i contrib/terraform/openstack/hosts -m ping all
example-k8s_node-1 | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}
example-etcd-1 | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}
example-k8s-master-1 | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

if you are deploying a system that needs bootstrapping, like Container Linux by CoreOS, these might have a stateFAILED due to Container Linux by CoreOS not having python. As long as the state is notUNREACHABLE, this is fine.

if it fails try to connect manually via SSH ... it could be something as simple as a stale host key.

Configure Cluster variables

Editinventory/group_vars/all.yml:

• Set variable bootstrap_os according selected image

# Valid bootstrap options (required): ubuntu, coreos, centos, none
bootstrap_os: coreos

• bin_dir

# Directory where the binaries will be installed
# Default:
# bin_dir: /usr/local/bin
# For Container Linux by CoreOS:
bin_dir: /opt/bin

• and cloud_provider

cloud_provider: openstack

Editinventory/group_vars/k8s-cluster.yml:

• Set variable kube_network_plugin according selected networking

# Choose network plugin (calico, weave or flannel)
# Can also be set to 'cloud', which lets the cloud provider setup appropriate routing
kube_network_plugin: flannel

flannel works out-of-the-box

calico requires allowing service's and pod's subnets on according OpenStack Neutron ports

• Set variable resolvconf_mode

# Can be docker_dns, host_resolvconf or none
# Default:
# resolvconf_mode: docker_dns
# For Container Linux by CoreOS:
resolvconf_mode: host_resolvconf

For calico configure OpenStack Neutron ports: OpenStack

Deploy kubernetes:

$ ansible-playbook --become -i contrib/terraform/openstack/hosts cluster.yml

Set up local kubectl

1. Install kubectl on your workstation: Install and Set Up kubectl
2. Add route to internal IP of master node (if needed):

sudo route add [master-internal-ip] gw [router-ip]

or

sudo route add -net [internal-subnet]/24 gw [router-ip]

3. List Kubernetes certs&keys:

ssh [os-user]@[master-ip] sudo ls /etc/kubernetes/ssl/

4. Get admin's certs&key:

ssh [os-user]@[master-ip] sudo cat /etc/kubernetes/ssl/admin-[cluster_name]-k8s-master-1-key.pem > admin-key.pem
ssh [os-user]@[master-ip] sudo cat /etc/kubernetes/ssl/admin-[cluster_name]-k8s-master-1.pem > admin.pem
ssh [os-user]@[master-ip] sudo cat /etc/kubernetes/ssl/ca.pem > ca.pem

5. Configure kubectl:

kubectl config set-cluster default-cluster --server=https://[master-internal-ip]:6443 \
    --certificate-authority=ca.pem

kubectl config set-credentials default-admin \
    --certificate-authority=ca.pem \
    --client-key=admin-key.pem \
    --client-certificate=admin.pem

kubectl config set-context default-system --cluster=default-cluster --user=default-admin
kubectl config use-context default-system

7. Check it:

kubectl version

If you are using floating ip addresses then you may get this error:

Unable to connect to the server: x509: certificate is valid for 10.0.0.6, 10.0.0.6, 10.233.0.1, 127.0.0.1, not 132.249.238.25

You can tell kubectl to ignore this condition by adding the --insecure-skip-tls-verify option.

GlusterFS

GlusterFS is not deployed by the standardcluster.yml playbook, see the glusterfs playbook documentation for instructions.

Basically you will install gluster as

$ ansible-playbook --become -i contrib/terraform/openstack/hosts ./contrib/network-storage/glusterfs/glusterfs.yml

What's next

Start Hello Kubernetes Service