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Friday, January 21, 2022

Setting up MetalLB Load Balancer with Kubernetes k8s.

When we are deploying the Kubernetes in the local development environment and if we need to publish the services through load balancer services then Metallb load balancer is one of the easiest solutions we can use. All we need is a set of IP range from our network which metal lb can use.  

Following are the k8s configurations that need to be applied on the cluster. 

Below is the config map which mentions the IPs which can be used for the load balancers

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
namespace: metallb-system
name: config
data:
config: |
address-pools:
- name: default
protocol: layer2
addresses:
- 172.16.2.80-172.16.2.90



Below is the ansible-playbook I used to deploy the metal load balancer on the k8s cluster. 
  • Initialize the master with Metallb Clusters
  • Copy the metallb Configuration to master
  • Kube apply the configuration on master. 


- hosts: master
remote_user: ansible
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
gather_facts: yes
connection: ssh
tasks:
- name: Initializing Metallb cluster
shell: kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/metallb/v0.8.3/manifests/metallb.yaml
register: myshell_output

- name: Copying the Metallb config file
copy:
src: /Users/rahulraj/workspace/vmware-ansible/k8s/playbook/metallb-congif.yml
dest: $HOME/metallb-congif.yml


- name: Configuring Metallb cluster
shell: kubectl apply -f $HOME/metallb-congif.yml
register: myshell_output



For testing it we shall deploy a sample Nginx and expose it through load balancer type services. 

k create deployment nginx-deployments --image=nginx --replicas=3 --port=80
k expose deployment nginx-deployments --port=80 --target-port=80 --type=LoadBalancer



Output should be like following 

 kubectl get svc
NAME                TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)        AGE
kubernetes          ClusterIP      10.96.0.1        <none>        443/TCP        25h
nginx-deployments   LoadBalancer   10.100.137.154   172.16.2.80   80:30973/TCP   13h











Thursday, January 20, 2022

Kubernetes(k8s) With Ansible Over Ubuntu Machines with Docker

Kubernetes(k8s) is a popular container orchestration system that provides a powerful platform for managing containerized applications. Docker is a lightweight, yet powerful container runtime that provides the underlying infrastructure for many Kubernetes deployments. In this, we can see how to set up Kubernetes with Docker using Ansible over Ubuntu machines.

Environment

  • Ubuntu VM's running on Vmware
  • K8s with Docker Runtime
** Important Notice: Following Settings are not working since the new release of 1.27. Please make use of the deployment with Containers.

https://www.adminz.in/2022/01/kubernetes-with-containerd-using-ansible.html

User Creation

  • Asks for the User Name which has to be created
  • Create's the user
  • Adds a dedicated Sudo entry 
  • Setting up Password less sudo for user
  • Copy the local uses ssh key to server for password less auth
  • Print the details
  • Updates the System

- hosts: all
become: yes

vars_prompt:
- name: "new_user"
prompt: "Account need to be create in remote server."
private: no

tasks:
- name: creating the user {{ new_user }}.
user:
name: "{{ new_user }}"
createhome: yes
shell: /bin/bash
append: yes
state: present

- name: Create a dedicated sudo entry file for the user.
file:
path: "/etc/sudoers.d/{{ new_user }}"
state: touch
mode: '0600'
- name: "Setting up Sudo without Password for user {{ new_user }}."
lineinfile:
dest: "/etc/sudoers.d/{{ new_user }}"
line: '{{ new_user }} ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL'
validate: 'visudo -cf %s'

- name: Set authorized key for user copying it from current {{ new_user }} user.
authorized_key:
user: "{{ new_user }}"
state: present
key: "{{ lookup('file', lookup('env','HOME') + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

- name: Print the created user.
shell: id "{{ new_user }}"
register: new_user_created
- debug:
msg: "{{ new_user_created.stdout_lines[0] }}"

- name: "Update cache & Full system update"
apt:
update_cache: true
upgrade: dist
cache_valid_time: 3600
force_apt_get: true


Package Installation in Master and Worker Nodes

  • Copy the local host files to all the server for name resolution
  • update the hostnames of the machines based on the names in host file
  • Temporary Swap off
  • Swap off in fstab
  • Installing Kubernetes Pre-requisites packages
  • Adding Docker Packages Keys
  • Adding Docker Respository
  • Install Docker packages
  • Enables Docker Services
  • Add Google repositories keys
  • Create Directory for Docker deamon file
  • Create the docker deamon file with Overlay details
  • Restart Docker Services
  • Install Kubernetes Packages
  • Enabled K8s Services
  • Reboot the Servers

- hosts: "master, workers"
remote_user: ansible
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
gather_facts: yes
connection: ssh
tasks:
- name: Copying the host file
copy:
src: /etc/hosts
dest: /etc/hosts
owner: root
group: root

- name: "Updating hostnames"
hostname:
name: "{{ new_hostname }}"

- name: Make the Swap inactive
command: swapoff -a

- name: Remove Swap entry from /etc/fstab.
lineinfile:
dest: /etc/fstab
regexp: swap
state: absent

- name: Installing Prerequisites for Kubernetes
apt:
name:
- apt-transport-https
- ca-certificates
- curl
- gnupg-agent
- vim
- software-properties-common
state: present

- name: Add Docker’s official GPG key
apt_key:
url: https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg
state: present

- name: Add Docker Repository
apt_repository:
repo: deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu xenial stable
state: present
filename: docker
mode: 0600

- name: Install Docker Engine.
apt:
name:
- docker-ce
- docker-ce-cli
- containerd.io
state: present

- name: Enable service docker, and enable persistently
service:
name: docker
enabled: yes

- name: Add Google official GPG key
apt_key:
url: https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg
state: present


- name: Creates directory
file:
path: /etc/docker/
state: directory

- name: Creating a file with content
copy:
dest: "/etc/docker/daemon.json"
content: |
{
"exec-opts": ["native.cgroupdriver=systemd"],
"log-driver": "json-file",
"log-opts": {
"max-size": "100m"
},
"storage-driver": "overlay2"
}

- name: restart docker
service:
name: docker
state: restarted
enabled: yes

- name: Add Kubernetes Repository
apt_repository:
repo: deb http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main
state: present
filename: kubernetes
mode: 0600

- name: Installing Kubernetes Cluster Packages.
apt:
name:
- kubeadm
- kubectl
- kubelet
state: present

- name: Enable service kubelet, and enable persistently
service:
name: kubelet
enabled: yes

- name: Reboot all the kubernetes nodes.
reboot:
msg: "Reboot initiated by Ansible"
connect_timeout: 5
reboot_timeout: 3600
pre_reboot_delay: 0
post_reboot_delay: 30
test_command: whoami





Master Configuration

  • Pulls all needed images
  • Reset Kubeadm if its already configured
  • Initialize K8s cluster
  • Create Directory for Kube config file in master
  • Create a local kube config file in master
  • Copy the kube config file to ansible local server
  • Genarates the Kube toke for workers and stores it
  • Copy the token to master's tmp directory
  • Copy the toke to ansible local tmp direcotry
  • Initialize the pod network with fannel
  • Copy the output to mater file
  • Copy the output to ansible local server


- hosts: master
remote_user: ansible
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
gather_facts: yes
connection: ssh
tasks:

- name: Pulling images required for setting up a Kubernetes cluster
shell: kubeadm config images pull

- name: Resetting kubeadm
shell: kubeadm reset -f
register: output

- name: Initializing Kubernetes cluster
shell: kubeadm init --apiserver-advertise-address=$(ip a |grep ens160| grep 'inet ' | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d'/') --pod-network-cidr 10.244.0.0/16 --v=5
register: myshell_output

- debug: msg="{{ myshell_output.stdout }}"

- name: Create .kube to home directory of master server
file:
path: $HOME/.kube
state: directory
mode: 0755

- name: Copy admin.conf to user's kube config to master server
copy:
src: /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
dest: $HOME/.kube/config
remote_src: yes

- name: Copy admin.conf to user's kube config to ansible local server
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
fetch:
src: /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
dest: /Users/rahulraj/.kube/config
flat: yes
- name: Get the token for joining the nodes with Kuberentes master.
shell: kubeadm token create --print-join-command
register: kubernetes_join_command
- debug:
msg: "{{ kubernetes_join_command.stdout_lines }}"

- name: Copy K8s Join command to file in master
copy:
content: "{{ kubernetes_join_command.stdout_lines[0] }}"
dest: "/tmp/kubernetes_join_command"

- name: Copy join command from master to local ansible server
fetch:
src: "/tmp/kubernetes_join_command"
dest: "/tmp/kubernetes_join_command"
flat: yes

- name: Install Pod network
shell: kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/kube-flannel.yml
register: myshell_output

- name: Copy the output to master file
copy:
content: "{{ myshell_output.stdout }}"
dest: "/tmp/pod_network_setup.txt"

- name: Copy network output from master to local ansible server
fetch:
src: "/tmp/pod_network_setup.txt"
dest: "/tmp/pod_network_setup.txt"
flat: yes


Worker Configuration

  • Copy the token from ansible local file to worker nodes
  • Reset the kubeadm 
  • Join the Worker node to Master by running the command

- hosts: workers
remote_user: ansible
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
gather_facts: yes
connection: ssh
tasks:

- name: Copy token to worker nodes.
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
copy:
src: /tmp/kubernetes_join_command
dest: /tmp/kubernetes_join_command
mode: 0777
- name: Resetting kubeadm
shell: kubeadm reset -f
register: output

- name: Join the Worker nodes with the master.
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
command: sh /tmp/kubernetes_join_command
register: joined_or_not
- debug:
msg: "{{ joined_or_not.stdout }}"


K8s should be up with the worker nodes now. 


Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Manage Vmware Machines With Ansible

Here we are looking on how to use Ansible to connect to vCenters and manage VMs. The focus will be on using quick playbooks for cloning and deleting a current template VM.

We can see the playbook for the creation process for cloning and deleting VMs. The playbook creation process will involve setting up variables, tasks, and handlers, and will be broken down into simple, easy-to-follow steps. Sample playbooks will be provided as a starting point for managing VMs in vCenter using Ansible.

Clone a VM in Vcenter with Ansible Playbook

- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
vcenter_server: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
vcenter_user: "User-Name"
vcenter_pass: "Password"
datacenter_name: "DC-Name"
cluster_name: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
resources_pool: "RG-Name"
template_vm: "Template-Name"
serv:
- vm1
- vm2

tasks:
- name: Clone the template
vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
resource_pool: "rahul-test"
validate_certs: False
name: "{{ item }}"
template: "{{ template_vm }}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
folder: /{{ datacenter_name }}/vm
state: poweredon
wait_for_ip_address: yes
register: "r"
with_items: "{{ serv }}"
- debug :
msg: "This is the Host-IPs: {{ item.instance.ipv4 }} {{ item.instance.hw_name }}"
with_items: "{{ r.results}}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.instance.hw_name }}"




Shutdown a VM in Vcenter with Ansible Playbook

- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
vcenter_server: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
vcenter_user: "User-Name"
vcenter_pass: "Password"
datacenter_name: "DC-Name"
cluster_name: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
tasks:
- name: Shutdown the template
vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
validate_certs: False
name: "{{ item}}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
folder: /{{ datacenter_name }}/vm
state: poweredoff
wait_for_ip_address: yes
loop:
- vm1
- vm2


Delete a VM in Vcenter with Ansible Playbook

- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
vcenter_server: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
vcenter_user: "User-Name"
vcenter_pass: "Password"
datacenter_name: "DC-Name"
cluster_name: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
tasks:
- name: Delete the template
vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
validate_certs: False
name: "{{ item}}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
folder: /{{ datacenter_name }}/vm
state: absent
wait_for_ip_address: yes
loop:
- vm1
- vm2