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Josh Wood
February 05, 2017
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Kubernetes Operators: Managing complex software with software
FOSDEM '17, Université Libre du Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium:
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February 05, 2017
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Transcript
Kubernetes Operators: Managing Complex Software with Software Josh Wood DocOps
at CoreOS @joshixisjosh9
Overview Scaling Stateless Apps
$ kubectl scale replicas=3 ... ReplicaSet
ReplicaSet
ReplicaSet
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Overview What about apps that…store data
$ kubectl run db --image=quay.io/my/db Creating a Database is Easy
• Resize/Upgrade - coordination for availability • Reconfigure - tedious
generation / templating • Backup - requires coordination on instances • Healing - restore backups, rejoin Managing a Distributed Database is Harder
If only k8s knew...: Extend Kubernetes
$ cat my-db-cluster.yaml spec: clusterSize: 3 readReplicas: 2 version: v4.0.1
The Goal
Introducing Operators
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etcd Overview • Distributed key-value store • Primary datastore of
Kubernetes • Auto-leader election for availability
Operator Construction • Operators build on Kubernetes concepts • Resources:
who what where ; desired state • Controllers: Observe, Analyze, Act to reconcile resources
Third Party Resources • TPRs extend the Kubernetes API with
new API object types • Akin to a database table’s schema - the data model • Designed with custom automation mechanisms in mind • https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/thirdpartyresources/
$ kubectl create -f https://coreos.com/operators/etcd/latest/deployment.yaml etcd Operator
$ cat deployment.yaml spec: clusterSize: 3 version: v3.1.0 etcd Operator
Resource
etcd Operator
etcd Operator Open-source github.com/coreos/etcd-operator
Kubernetes self-hosting etcd Easy HA Setups on Kubernetes Automated backup
to object store Chaos Monkey Testing for 1.0 etcd Operator - Future Work
Prometheus Operator • Operates Prometheus on k8s • Handles common
tasks: ◦ Create/Destroy ◦ Monitor Configuration ◦ Services Targets via Labels • Configured by resources
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Prometheus Operator Open-source github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator
• Read more at coreos.com/blog • Test and Extend the
open source Operators • Build and Discuss other Operators (redis, postgres, MySQL) Next Steps
https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operators.html https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-the-etcd-operator.html https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator https://coreos.com/blog/the-prometheus-operator.html https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube URLs
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