Kubernetes Operators: Managing complex software with software

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Kubernetes Operators: Managing Complex Software with Software Josh Wood DocOps at CoreOS @joshixisjosh9

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Overview Scaling Stateless Apps

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$ kubectl scale replicas=3 ... ReplicaSet

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ReplicaSet

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ReplicaSet

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Overview What about apps that…store data

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$ kubectl run db --image=quay.io/my/db Creating a Database is Easy

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● Resize/Upgrade - coordination for availability ● Reconfigure - tedious generation / templating ● Backup - requires coordination on instances ● Healing - restore backups, rejoin Managing a Distributed Database is Harder

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If only k8s knew...: Extend Kubernetes

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$ cat my-db-cluster.yaml spec: clusterSize: 3 readReplicas: 2 version: v4.0.1 The Goal

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Introducing Operators

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etcd Overview ● Distributed key-value store ● Primary datastore of Kubernetes ● Auto-leader election for availability

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Operator Construction ● Operators build on Kubernetes concepts ● Resources: who what where ; desired state ● Controllers: Observe, Analyze, Act to reconcile resources

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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/

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$ kubectl create -f https://coreos.com/operators/etcd/latest/deployment.yaml etcd Operator

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$ cat deployment.yaml spec: clusterSize: 3 version: v3.1.0 etcd Operator Resource

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etcd Operator

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etcd Operator Open-source github.com/coreos/etcd-operator

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Kubernetes self-hosting etcd Easy HA Setups on Kubernetes Automated backup to object store Chaos Monkey Testing for 1.0 etcd Operator - Future Work

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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

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● Read more at coreos.com/blog ● Test and Extend the open source Operators ● Build and Discuss other Operators (redis, postgres, MySQL) Next Steps

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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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