Bending Kubernetes to Your Needs

Talk at Cloud Matters London, see https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/11072-cloud-matters-july/

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1. Bending Kubernetes to Your Needs
 An overview of customization options in Kubernetes Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas
 Developer Advocate, Red Hat
 2018-07-30, Cloud Matters, London
2. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 2 • Developer Advocate @ Red Hat (Go, Kubernetes, OpenShift) • Developer Advocate @ Mesosphere (Mesos, DC/OS, Kubernetes) • Chief Data Engineer @ MapR (HDFS, HBase, Drill, etc.) • Applied research (4y in Ireland, 7y in Austria) • Nowadays mainly developing tools in Go (Python, Node, Java, C++) • Kinda developer turned ops (aka appops) $ whois mhausenblas
3. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 3 admin SRE developer infosec architect PM PHB
4. A little analogy that might help …
5. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 5 kernel distribution
6. A quick Kubernetes 101
7. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 7 Moving parts—physical view
8. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 8 Moving parts—logical view
9. How can I customize Kubernetes?
10. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 10 • in-tree (upstream) via SIG or direct PR • maintain your own fork • built-in customization approaches Customization options in principle
11. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 11 • configuration files and flags (kubelet, kube-apiserver, etc.) • extension points • cloud providers • kubelet (plugins for network/devices/storage and container runtimes) • kubectl plugins • access extensions in the API server • custom resources/controllers • extension API servers • scheduler extensions Customization approaches I I A A A I I A I infrastructure API
12. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 12 Extension patterns example: manage a CRD example: authn/authz example: network, storage, kubectl
13. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 13 Cloud providers github.com/kubernetes • libraries (in-tree)/controller manager • interfaces for things like: • load balancers • network routes • nodes/VMs I
14. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 14 kubelet: network/device/storage plugins • Network—standard: CNI
 https://github.com/containernetworking/cni 
 https://mhausenblas.info/cn-ref/ • Devices—GPUs, FPGAs, etc.
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/compute-storage-net/device-plugins/ • Storage—20+ in-tree, up-and-coming standard: CSI
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#types-of-volumes 
 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/04/10/container-storage-interface-beta/ I
15. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 15 kubelet: container runtimes • Container runtime—standard: CRI (since 1.5)
 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2016/12/container-runtime-interface-cri-in-kubernetes/ • Nowadays multiple options: • containerd • Kata containers • gVisor • hyper.sh http://cri-o.io I
16. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 16 kubectl plugins • Extend the set of commands
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/extend-kubectl/kubectl-plugins/ • Write in any programming language (note: these are binary extensions) • Examples: context control, service catalog, user verification I ~/.kube/plugins
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18. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 18 Interlude 1: the control plane
19. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 19 Interlude 2: the life of an API server request Above is based on Extensible Admission is Beta and Kubernetes deep dive: API Server – part 1 persisting to etcd API HTTP handler authn & authz mutating admission object schema validation validating admission mutating webhooks validating webhooks
20. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 20 Interlude 3: core resources (in-tree) A https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.11/
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22. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 22 Access extensions in the API server • Admission controllers (in-tree, via configuration of the API server)
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/ • Dynamic Admission Control
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/extensible-admission-controllers/ • Admission Webhooks (beta) • Initializers (alpha)
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23. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 23 Custom resources • Extend “known” resources beyond core resources (pods, services, etc.)
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/
 https://blog.openshift.com/kubernetes-deep-dive-api-server-part-3a/ • Use API server to store custom resources in etcd for you • Use CLI to interact with custom resources in the usual way:
 kubectl get | create | delete … A
24. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 24 Custom resource—example A
25. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 25 Custom controller • Beyond the controller manager (which is in-tree!) • Custom controller • look after core resources
 https://github.com/kelseyhightower/secrets-controller • look after custom resources
 https://github.com/kubernetes/sample-controller A
26. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 26 Operators • operator =~ custom resource + controller
 https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operator-framework • Motivation: application lifecycle management • Use one of over 30 available operators or write your own using the framework
 https://github.com/operator-framework/awesome-operators A github.com/operator-framework
27. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 27 Extension API servers • Full control but a lot of effort and responsibility
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/setup-extension-api-server/ • Typically more LOC than an controller/operator • Have to manage storage in etcd yourself • And beyond: the Open Service Broker API and the service catalog
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/service-catalog/
 https://www.openservicebrokerapi.org/ A
28. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 28 Scheduler extensions • A scheduler selects a node to run your pods on, based on resource requirements, QoS, affinity, etc.
 https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/07/27/how-does-the-kubernetes-scheduler-work/ • You modify policies or run multiple schedulers (with pod opt-in)
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-multiple-schedulers/
 https://embano1.github.io/post/sched-reconcile/ • You can use a webhook 
 https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/scheduling/scheduler_extender.md I
29. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 29 Other stuff you can customize • Monitoring, alerting, logging • Secret management (encryption at rest) • Ingress
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/ • DNS
 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/dns-custom-nameservers/ • kube-proxy
 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/07/09/ipvs-based-in-cluster-load-balancing-deep-dive/
30. Resources
31. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 31 • https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/extend-cluster/ • https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/ • https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/apiserver-aggregation/ • https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/setup-extension-api-server/ • https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/extend-kubectl/kubectl-plugins/ • https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/webhook/ • https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/scratch/#cloud-provider • https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/01/extensible-admission-is-beta/ Kubernetes docs and blog posts
32. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 32 • Tim Hockin & Michael Rubin—Kubernetes Distributions and ‘Kernels'
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXBjA2hH-CQ • Stefan Schimanski: • Kubernetes as a API driven platform, Reykjavík Kubernetes Meetup
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiE7oKeEzDU • SIG API Machinery Deep Dive
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFH7OEIIvI • James Munnelly—Extending the Kubernetes API: What the Docs Don't Tell You
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYLFZVv68lM 
 Videos
33. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 33 • Tim Hockin—Kubernetes Extensibility
 https://speakerdeck.com/thockin/kubernetes-extensibility • Jonathan Berkhahn & Carolyn Van Slyck—Kubectl Plugins 101
 https://kccnceu18.sched.com/event/DqwJ/kubectl-plugins-101-jonathan-berkhahn-ibm-carolyn-van- slyck-microsoft-intermediate-skill-level-slides-attached • Adrien Trouillaud—Kubernetes Custom Resource, Controller & Operator Development Tools
 https://admiralty.io/kubernetes-custom-resource-controller-and-operator-development-tools.html • Toader Sebastian—A complete guide to Kubernetes Operator SDK
 https://banzaicloud.com/blog/operator-sdk/ • Rob Szumski—Building an Kubernetes Operator for Prometheus and Thanos
 https://robszumski.com/building-an-operator/ Articles and slide decks
34. Hit me up on Twitter: @mhausenblas 34 • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/tree/master/pkg/pluginutils • https://github.com/carolynvs/kubectl-flags-plugin • https://github.com/jordanwilson230/kubectl-plugins • https://github.com/kelseyhightower/denyenv-validating-admission-webhook • https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools • https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder • https://metacontroller.app/ • https://github.com/yaronha/kube-crd • https://github.com/operator-framework/awesome-operators • https://github.com/operator-framework Repos and tools
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