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Habitat and Kubernetes on GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

This project is geared towards getting started quickly with Kubernetes and Habitat on GCP and follows similar steps to this AKS and ACR Walkthrough. In a GCP project, this:

  • Creates a GKE container cluster
  • Optionally creates a service account with privileges to push and pull images to the Container Registry
  • Uses InSpec GCP to test that the resources were created as expected, see controls
  • Configures kubectl command line tool
  • Installs Habitat Operator to the Kubernetes cluster
  • Provides examples to quickly do something real in the cluster

Prerequisites

Assuming a local development environment with Ruby installed:

  1. Install and configure the Google cloud SDK

Download the SDK and run the installation:

./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
  1. Create credentials file via:
$ gcloud auth application-default login

If successful, this should be similar to:

$ cat ~/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json 
{
  "client_id": "764086051850-6qr4p6gpi6hn50asdr.apps.googleusercontent.com",
  "client_secret": "d-fasdfasdfasdfaweroi23jknrmfs;f8sh",
  "refresh_token": "1/asdfjlklwna;ldkna'dfmk-lCkju3-yQmjr20xVZonrfkE48L",
  "type": "authorized_user"
}
  1. Enable the appropriate APIs that you want to use:
  1. Install the Kubernetes CLI:
$ gcloud components install kubectl
  1. Clone this repository and ensure all dependencies are installed. For example, using bundler:
$ git clone https://github.com/skpaterson/gcp-kube-habitat
$ cd gcp-kube-habitat
$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
  1. Install habitat, see instructions here

  2. Install Terraform, ses instructions here

Create the resources

First, let's export an environment variable pointing at a GCP project ID of your choosing:

$ export GCP_PROJECT_ID=your-project-id

This is the only mandatory setting. If preferred, another approach would be to edit test/integration/configuration/gcp_config.rb accordingly.

Optionally choose the primary and two additional zones where the Kubernetes cluster will run. Not setting anything will result in the default values shown below:

$ export GCP_KUBE_CLUSTER_ZONE="europe-west1-d"
$ export GCP_KUBE_CLUSTER_ZONE_EXTRA1="europe-west1-b"
$ export GCP_KUBE_CLUSTER_ZONE_EXTRA2="europe-west1-c"

Choose a zone where there are enough IP addresses available (9 are required and some zones default to 8). Navigate to IAM and admin->Quotas and look for “Compute Engine API In-use IP addresses” to update this for a zone.

Optionally disable creating the service account for working with the container registry that could be used by Habitat Builder. This is created by default:

$ export CREATE_HABITAT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=0

Initialize the terraform workspace:

$ bundle exec rake test:init_workspace

Create the terraform plan to stand up the Kubernetes cluster and service account:

$ bundle exec rake test:plan_integration_tests

Create the resources in GCP:

$ bundle exec rake test:setup_integration_tests

Test the resources

Use InSpec GCP to test the resources that we just created:

$ bundle exec rake test:run_integration_tests

This can also be run directly with InSpec from the root directory of the repository via:

$ bundle exec inspec exec . -t gcp:// --attrs=test/integration/build/gcp-kube-attributes.yaml

Sample test output:

Profile: InSpec GCP Kube Habitat Tests (gcp-kube-habitat-tests)
Version: 0.1.0
Target:  gcp://764086051850-6qr4p6gpi6hn506pt8ejuq83di341hur.apps.googleusercontent.com

  ✔  gcp-single-zone-1.0: Ensure single zone has the correct properties.
     ✔  Zone europe-west2-a should be up
     ✔  Zone europe-west2-b should be up
     ✔  Zone europe-west2-c should be up
  ✔  gcp-gke-container-cluster-1.0: Ensure the GKE Container Cluster was built correctly
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster should exist
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster name should eq "gcp-kube-cluster"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster zone should match "europe-west2-a"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster tainted? should equal false
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster untrusted? should equal false
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster status should eq "RUNNING"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster locations.sort should cmp == ["europe-west2-a", "europe-west2-b", "europe-west2-c"]
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster master_auth.username should eq "gcp-kube-admin"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster master_auth.password should eq "%gwpasddssfl;kjdsfjklsdP!ah"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster network should eq "default"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster subnetwork should eq "default"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster node_config.disk_size_gb should eq 100
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster node_config.image_type should eq "COS"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster node_config.machine_type should eq "n1-standard-1"
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster node_ipv4_cidr_size should eq 24
     ✔  Cluster gcp-kube-cluster node_pools.count should eq 1
  ✔  gcp-generic-iam-service-account: Ensure that the Service Account is correctly set up
     ✔  IAM Service Account hab-svc-acct-whdeqkbduwvvbll display_name should eq "hab-svc-acct-whdeqkbduwvvbll"
     ✔  IAM Service Account hab-svc-acct-whdeqkbduwvvbll project_id should eq "spaterson-project"
     ✔  IAM Service Account hab-svc-acct-whdeqkbduwvvbll email should eq "hab-svc-acct-whdeqkbduwvvbll@spaterson-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com"


Profile: Google Cloud Platform Resource Pack (inspec-gcp)
Version: 0.4.0
Target:  gcp://764086051850-6qr4p6gpi6hn506pt8ejuq83di341hur.apps.googleusercontent.com

     No tests executed.

Profile Summary: 3 successful controls, 0 control failures, 0 controls skipped
Test Summary: 22 successful, 0 failures, 0 skipped

Set up the Kubernetes Cluster

The following command configures kubectl and installs the Habitat Operator in the Kubernetes cluster.

$ bundle exec rake test:setup_cluster

Note this operation is not idempotent!

Check things are working as expected via:

$ kubectl cluster-info
$ kubectl get pods

Run an example application directly using Kubernetes

This is based on the Kubernetes example here

$ kubectl apply -f applications/nginx-deployment.yml
$ kubectl describe deployment nginx-deployment
$ kubectl get pods
$ kubectl expose deployment nginx-deployment --type=LoadBalancer --name=nginx-service
$ kubectl describe services nginx-service 

Using the public IP address from the last command, hit the URL and the trusty nginx startup page should be there.

Run a simple Habitat example application

This example is based on this article.

$ kubectl create -f applications/demo-application.yml

Check the status with kubectl get pods and wait for all pods to enter a running state.

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                                    READY     STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
habitat-demo-counter-68f6cb4448-srk2c   0/1       ContainerCreating   0          15s
habitat-operator-854d7dc494-j58kb       1/1       Running             0          5m

Navigate to the public IP address "External IP" listed by the following command at port 8000 and you will hopefully see a nice result.

$ kubectl get services front
NAME      TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)          AGE
front     LoadBalancer   10.20.300.40   12.345.678.123   8000:32259/TCP   1m

Clean everything up

The below command cleans up the resources created with terraform. There is no protection for anything running within the cluster, processes will be stopped.

$ bundle exec rake test:cleanup_integration_tests

FAQ

Quota increase for zone

The terraform templates could generate sufficient resources to require an increase to default in_use IP addresses for a project or zone.

To find this setting, log in to the GCP web interface and go to IAM and admin->Quotas and look for "Compute Engine API In-use IP addresses" for the project/zone. From here you can "Edit quotas" to request more.

Changed Quota:
+----------------------+------------------+
| Region: europe-west2 | IN_USE_ADDRESSES |
+----------------------+------------------+
|       Changes        |     8 -> 64      |
+----------------------+------------------+

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