Getting Started

Prerequisites

Follow the instructions here to install the following tools:
- kubectl
- clusterctl (Requires v1.1.5 +)
Optional if you do not have an existing Kubernetes cluster
- kind
- Docker
Register the capi-compatible templates in your Apache CloudStack installation.
- Prebuilt images can be found here
- To build a compatible image see CloudStack CAPI Images
Create a management cluster. This can either be :
- An existing Kubernetes cluster: For production use-cases a “real” Kubernetes cluster should be used with appropriate backup and DR policies and procedures in place. The Kubernetes cluster must be at least v1.19.1.
- A local cluster created with kind, for non production use
```
kind create cluster
```
Set up Apache CloudStack credentials as a secret in the management cluster
- Create a file named cloud-config.yaml in the repo’s root directory, substituting in your own environment’s values
```
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: cloudstack-credentials
  namespace: default
type: Opaque
stringData:
  api-key: <cloudstackApiKey>
  secret-key: <cloudstackSecretKey>
  api-url: <cloudstackApiUrl>
  verify-ssl: "false"
```
- Apply this secret to the management cluster:
  - With the management cluster’s KUBECONFIG in effect:
```
kubectl apply -f cloud-config.yaml
```
- Delete cloud-config.yaml when done, for security

Initialize the management cluster

Run the following command to turn your cluster into a management cluster and load the Apache CloudStack components into it.


clusterctl init --infrastructure cloudstack

Creating a CAPC Cluster:

Set up the environment variables. It will be populated by the values set here. See the example values below (and replace with your own!)

The entire list of configuration variables as well as how to fetch them can be found here


# The Apache CloudStack zone in which the cluster is to be deployed
export CLOUDSTACK_ZONE_NAME=zone1

# If the referenced network doesn't exist, a new isolated network
# will be created.
export CLOUDSTACK_NETWORK_NAME=GuestNet1

# The IP you put here must be available as an unused public IP on the network
# referenced above. If it's not available, the control plane will fail to create.
# You can see the list of available IP's when you try allocating a public
# IP in the network at
# Network -> Guest Networks -> <Network Name> -> IP Addresses
export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT_IP=192.168.1.161

# This is the standard port that the Control Plane process runs on
export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT_PORT=6443

# Machine offerings must be pre-created. Control plane offering
# must have have >2GB RAM available
export CLOUDSTACK_CONTROL_PLANE_MACHINE_OFFERING="Large Instance"
export CLOUDSTACK_WORKER_MACHINE_OFFERING="Small Instance"

# Referring to a prerequisite capi-compatible image you've loaded into Apache CloudStack
export CLOUDSTACK_TEMPLATE_NAME=kube-v1.23.3/ubuntu-2004

# The SSH KeyPair to log into the VM (Optional: you must use clusterctl --flavor *managed-ssh*)
export CLOUDSTACK_SSH_KEY_NAME=CAPCKeyPair6

Generate the CAPC cluster spec yaml file


clusterctl generate cluster capc-cluster \
    --kubernetes-version v1.23.3 \
    --control-plane-machine-count=1 \
    --worker-machine-count=1 \
    > capc-cluster-spec.yaml

Apply the CAPC cluster spec to your kind management cluster
```
kubectl apply -f capc-cluster-spec.yaml
```
Check the progress of capc-cluster, and wait for all the components (with the exception of MachineDeployment/capc-cluster-md-0) to be ready. (MachineDeployment/capc-cluster-md-0 will not show ready until the CNI is installed.)
```
clusterctl describe cluster capc-cluster
```
Get the generated kubeconfig for your newly created Apache CloudStack cluster capc-cluster
```
clusterctl get kubeconfig capc-cluster > capc-cluster.kubeconfig
```

Install calico or weave net cni plugin on the workload cluster so that pods can see each other


KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectcalico/calico/master/manifests/calico.yaml


KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weaveworks/weave/master/prog/weave-kube/weave-daemonset-k8s-1.11.yaml

Verify the K8s cluster is fully up. (It may take a minute for the nodes status to all reach ready state.)

Run KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl get nodes, and observe the following output


NAME                               STATUS   ROLES                  AGE     VERSION
capc-cluster-control-plane-xsnxt   Ready    control-plane,master   2m56s   v1.20.10
capc-cluster-md-0-9fr9d            Ready    <none>                 112s    v1.20.10

Validating the CAPC Cluster:

Run a simple kubernetes app called ‘test-thing’

Create the container


KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl run test-thing --image=rockylinux/rockylinux:8 --restart=Never -- /bin/bash -c 'echo Hello, World!'
KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl get pods

Wait for the container to complete, and check the logs for ‘Hello, World!’


KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl logs test-thing

kubectl/clusterctl Reference:

Pods in capc-cluster -- cluster running in Apache CloudStack with calico cni


% KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                                                       READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
default       test-thing                                                 0/1     Completed   0          2m43s
kube-system   calico-kube-controllers-784dcb7597-dw42t                   1/1     Running     0          4m31s
kube-system   calico-node-mmp2x                                          1/1     Running     0          4m31s
kube-system   calico-node-vz99f                                          1/1     Running     0          4m31s
kube-system   coredns-74ff55c5b-n6zp7                                    1/1     Running     0          9m18s
kube-system   coredns-74ff55c5b-r8gvj                                    1/1     Running     0          9m18s
kube-system   etcd-capc-cluster-control-plane-tknwx                      1/1     Running     0          9m21s
kube-system   kube-apiserver-capc-cluster-control-plane-tknwx            1/1     Running     0          9m21s
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-capc-cluster-control-plane-tknwx   1/1     Running     0          9m21s
kube-system   kube-proxy-6g9zb                                           1/1     Running     0          9m3s
kube-system   kube-proxy-7gjbv                                           1/1     Running     0          9m18s
kube-system   kube-scheduler-capc-cluster-control-plane-tknwx            1/1     Running     0          9m21s

Pods in capc-cluster -- cluster running in Apache CloudStack with weave net cni


%KUBECONFIG=capc-cluster.kubeconfig kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                                                       READY   STATUS      RESTARTS       AGE
default       test-thing                                                 0/1     Completed   0              38s
kube-system   coredns-5d78c9869d-9xq2s                                   1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   coredns-5d78c9869d-gphs2                                   1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   etcd-capc-cluster-control-plane-49khm                      1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   kube-apiserver-capc-cluster-control-plane-49khm            1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-capc-cluster-control-plane-49khm   1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   kube-proxy-8lfnm                                           1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   kube-proxy-brj78                                           1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   kube-scheduler-capc-cluster-control-plane-49khm            1/1     Running     0              21h
kube-system   weave-net-rqckr                                            2/2     Running     1 (3h8m ago)   3h8m
kube-system   weave-net-rzms4                                            2/2     Running     1 (3h8m ago)   3h8m

Pods in original kind cluster (also called bootstrap cluster, management cluster)


% kubectl  get pods -A
NAMESPACE                           NAME                                                             READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
capc-system                         capc-controller-manager-55798f8594-lp2xs                         1/1     Running   0          30m
capi-kubeadm-bootstrap-system       capi-kubeadm-bootstrap-controller-manager-7857cd7bb8-rldnw       1/1     Running   0          30m
capi-kubeadm-control-plane-system   capi-kubeadm-control-plane-controller-manager-6cc4b4d964-tz5zq   1/1     Running   0          30m
capi-system                         capi-controller-manager-7cfcfdf99b-79lr9                         1/1     Running   0          30m
cert-manager                        cert-manager-848f547974-dl7hc                                    1/1     Running   0          31m
cert-manager                        cert-manager-cainjector-54f4cc6b5-gfgsw                          1/1     Running   0          31m
cert-manager                        cert-manager-webhook-7c9588c76-5m2b2                             1/1     Running   0          31m
kube-system                         coredns-558bd4d5db-22zql                                         1/1     Running   0          48m
kube-system                         coredns-558bd4d5db-7g7kh                                         1/1     Running   0          48m
kube-system                         etcd-capi-test-control-plane                                     1/1     Running   0          48m
kube-system                         kindnet-7p2dq                                                    1/1     Running   0          48m
kube-system                         kube-apiserver-capi-test-control-plane                           1/1     Running   0          48m
kube-system                         kube-controller-manager-capi-test-control-plane                  1/1     Running   0          48m
kube-system                         kube-proxy-cwrhv                                                 1/1     Running   0          48m
kube-system                         kube-scheduler-capi-test-control-plane                           1/1     Running   0          48m
local-path-storage                  local-path-provisioner-547f784dff-f2g7r                          1/1     Running   0          48m

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