Kube Aliyun

Aliyun essentials for Kubernetes. It provides SLB, Routes controllers and a Volume plugin for Kubernetes to function properly on Aliyun instances.

Features

• Service load balancers sync (TCP & UDP)
• Routes sync
• Volumes / PersistentVolumes
• Centralized attach/detach control. No credentials needed on nodes.
• PersistentVolumes dynamic provisioning

Docker Image

kubeup/kube-aliyun

registry.aliyuncs.com/kubeup/kube-aliyun

Dependency

Due to Kubernetes v1.6.0 flexvolume api break, the master currently supports k8s v1.6+.

To use the last v1.5.x compatible versionn, use tag k8s-1.5.

Components

There are two components.

aliyun-controller is a daemon responsible for service & route synchronization, attach/detach control and PV provisioning. It has to run on all master nodes.

aliyun-flexv is a binary plugin responsible for volumes operations on nodes. It has to be deployed on all nodes and will be called by kubelets/controller-manager when needed.

Deploy to Aliyun

aliyun-controller

1. Make sure all node names are either ip addresses or routable names
2. Make sure node cidr will be allocated by adding --allocate-node-cidrs=true --configure-cloud-routes=false to kube-controller-manager commandline.
3. Update the required fields in manifests/aliyun-controller.yaml
4. Upload it to pod-manifest-path-of-kubelets on all your master nodes
5. Use docker logs to check if the controller is running properly

If your nodes can't access Aliyun metadata somehow, you need to specify 3 more variables in env:

  - ALIYUN_REGION
  - ALIYUN_VPC
  - ALIYUN_VSWITCH

aliyun-flexv

1. Add two env variables to kube-controller-manager:

  - ALIYUN_ACCESS_KEY
  - ALIYUN_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET

2. Make flexv binary available on every node in a ./ailyun~flexv/ folder under the kubelet volume plugin path. Or for your convenience, run this on every node.

FLEXPATH=/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec/aliyun~flexv; sudo mkdir $FLEXPATH -p; docker run -v $FLEXPATH:/opt kubeup/kube-aliyun:master cp /flexv /opt/

Usage

Services

Just create Loadbalancer Services as usual. Currently only TCP & UDP types are supported. Some options can be customized through annotaion on Service. Please see pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aliyun/loadbalancer.go for details.

Routes

Since we are using k8s to allocate node cidrs, we need a way to make that effective on containers. There are several ways to do this.

• Use kubenet plugin. Details here
• Pass --bip={subnet} and --ip-masq=false to docker daemon

Volumes

Use flexVolume in any volume/PV/PVC spec.

Checkout following examples.

Volume Example

Static PersistentVolumes

Dynamic PersistentVolumes and StorageClass

More Examples

Please find a more complete setup example here which Archon is able to deploy automatically.

License

Apache Version 2.0