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Nico Schottelius, 09/04/2021 08:55 PM


The ungleich kubernetes infrastructure and ungleich kubernetes manual

Status

This document is pre-production.
This document is to become the ungleich kubernetes infrastructure overview as well as the ungleich kubernetes manual.

k8s clusters

Cluster Purpose Master(s)
c0.k8s.ooo Dev
c1.k8s.ooo Dev p6 2a0a-e5c0-2-11-0-62ff-fe0b-1a3d.k8s-1.place6.ungleich.ch
c2.k8s.ooo Demo place7 server47 server53 server54
c3.k8s.ooo Test p7 Raspberry PIs (inactive of 2021-08-20)
c4.k8s.ooo active-dev p7 server52 server53 server54
c5.k8s.ooo Development Amal 2a0a-e5c0-2-11-0-62ff-fe0b-1a46.k8s-1.place6.ungleich.ch
p6.k8s.ooo production
p10.k8s.ooo production server63 server65 server83

General architecture and components overview

  • All k8s clusters are IPv6 only
  • We use BGP peering to propagate podcidr and serviceCidr networks to our infrastructure
  • The main public testing repository is ungleich-k8s
    • Private configurations are found in the k8s-config repository

Cluster types

Type/Feature Development Production
Min No. nodes 3 (1 master, 3 worker) 5 (3 master, 3 worker)
Recommended minimum 4 (dedicated master, 3 worker) 8 (3 master, 5 worker)
Separation of control plane optional recommended
Persistent storage required required
Number of storage monitors 3 5

Operations

Get the argocd credentials

kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d; echo "" 

Installing a new k8s cluster

  • Decide on the cluster name (usually cX.k8s.ooo), X counting upwards
    • Using pXX.k8s.ooo for production clusters of placeXX
  • Use cdist to configure the nodes with requirements like crio
  • Decide between single or multi node control plane setups (see below)
    • Single control plane suitable for development clusters

Typical init procedure:

  • Single control plane: kubeadm init --config bootstrap/XXX/kubeadm.yaml
  • Multi control plane (HA): kubeadm init --config bootstrap/XXX/kubeadm.yaml --upload-certs

Deleting a pod that is hanging in terminating state

kubectl delete pod <PODNAME> --grace-period=0 --force --namespace <NAMESPACE>

(from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35453792/pods-stuck-in-terminating-status)

Infrastructure versions

ungleich kubernetes infrastructure v3

  • rook is now installed via helm via argocd instead of directly via manifests

ungleich kubernetes infrastructure v2

  • Replaced fluxv2 from ungleich k8s v1 with argocd
    • argocd can apply helm templates directly without needing to go through Chart releases
  • We are also using argoflow for build flows
  • Planned to add kaniko for image building

ungleich kubernetes infrastructure v1

We are using the following components:

  • Calico as a CNI with BGP, IPv6 only, no encapsulation
    • Needed for basic networking
  • kubernetes-secret-generator for creating secrets
    • Needed so that secrets are not stored in the git repository, but only in the cluster
  • ungleich-certbot
    • Needed to get letsencrypt certificates for services
  • rook with ceph rbd + cephfs for storage
    • rbd for almost everything, ReadWriteOnce
    • cephfs for smaller things, multi access ReadWriteMany
    • Needed for providing persistent storage
  • flux v2
    • Needed to manage resources automatically

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 2 years ago · 37 revisions