Creating a cluster with an Ansible Playbook#
Ansible is a popular infrastructure-as-code tool that can use to automate tasks for the purpose of achieving the desired state in a system. With Ansible (and the k0s-Ansible playbook) you can quickly install a multi-node Kubernetes Cluster.
Note: Before using Ansible to create a cluster, you should have a general understanding of Ansible (refer to the official Ansible User Guide.
Prerequisites#
You will require the following tools to install k0s on local virtual machines:
| Tool | Detail |
|---|---|
multipass |
A lightweight VM manager that uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows, and hypervisor.framework on macOS. Installation information |
ansible |
An infrastructure as code tool. Installation Guide |
kubectl |
Command line tool for running commands against Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes Install Tools |
Create the cluster#
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Download k0s-ansible
Clone the k0s-ansible repository on your local machine:
git clone https://github.com/movd/k0s-ansible.git cd k0s-ansible -
Create virtual machines
Note: Though multipass is the VM manager in use here, there is no interdependence.
Create a number of virtual machines. For the automation to work, each instance must have passwordless SSH access. To achieve this, provision each instance with a cloud-init manifest that imports your current users' public SSH key and into a user
k0s(refer to the bash script below).This creates 7 virtual machines:
./tools/multipass_create_instances.sh 7Create cloud-init to import ssh key... [1/7] Creating instance k0s-1 with multipass... Launched: k0s-1 [2/7] Creating instance k0s-2 with multipass... Launched: k0s-2 [3/7] Creating instance k0s-3 with multipass... Launched: k0s-3 [4/7] Creating instance k0s-4 with multipass... Launched: k0s-4 [5/7] Creating instance k0s-5 with multipass... Launched: k0s-5 [6/7] Creating instance k0s-6 with multipass... Launched: k0s-6 [7/7] Creating instance k0s-7 with multipass... Launched: k0s-7 Name State IPv4 Image k0s-1 Running 192.168.64.32 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS k0s-2 Running 192.168.64.33 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS k0s-3 Running 192.168.64.56 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS k0s-4 Running 192.168.64.57 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS k0s-5 Running 192.168.64.58 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS k0s-6 Running 192.168.64.60 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS k0s-7 Running 192.168.64.61 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS -
Create Ansible inventory
1. Copy the sample to create the inventory directory:
```shell cp -rfp inventory/sample inventory/multipass ```2. Create the inventory.
Assign the virtual machines to the different host groups, as required by the playbook logic. | Host group | Detail | |:----------------------|:------------------------------------------| | `initial_controller` | Must contain a single node that creates the worker and controller tokens needed by the other nodes| | `controller` | Can contain nodes that, together with the host from `initial_controller`, form a highly available isolated control plane | | `worker` | Must contain at least one node, to allow for the deployment of Kubernetes objects |3. Fill in
inventory/multipass/inventory.yml. This can be done by direct entry using the metadata provided bymultipass list,, or you can use the following Python scriptmultipass_generate_inventory.py:```shell ./tools/multipass_generate_inventory.py ``` ```shell Designate first three instances as control plane Created Ansible Inventory at: /Users/dev/k0s-ansible/tools/inventory.yml $ cp tools/inventory.yml inventory/multipass/inventory.yml ``` Your `inventory/multipass/inventory.yml` should resemble the example below: ```yaml --- all: children: initial_controller: hosts: k0s-1: controller: hosts: k0s-2: k0s-3: worker: hosts: k0s-4: k0s-5: k0s-6: k0s-7: hosts: k0s-1: ansible_host: 192.168.64.32 k0s-2: ansible_host: 192.168.64.33 k0s-3: ansible_host: 192.168.64.56 k0s-4: ansible_host: 192.168.64.57 k0s-5: ansible_host: 192.168.64.58 k0s-6: ansible_host: 192.168.64.60 k0s-7: ansible_host: 192.168.64.61 vars: ansible_user: k0s ``` -
Test the virtual machine connections
Run the following command to test the connection to your hosts:
ansible -i inventory/multipass/inventory.yml -m pingk0s-4 | SUCCESS => { "ansible_facts": { "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3" }, "changed": false, "ping": "pong" } ...If the test result indicates success, you can proceed.
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Provision the cluster with Ansible
Applying the playbook, k0s download and be set up on all nodes, tokens will be exchanged, and a kubeconfig will be dumped to your local deployment environment.
ansible-playbook site.yml -i inventory/multipass/inventory.ymlTASK [k0s/initial_controller : print kubeconfig command] ******************************************************* Tuesday 22 December 2020 17:43:20 +0100 (0:00:00.257) 0:00:41.287 ****** ok: [k0s-1] => { "msg": "To use Cluster: export KUBECONFIG=/Users/dev/k0s-ansible/inventory/multipass/artifacts/k0s-kubeconfig.yml" } ... PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************** k0s-1 : ok=21 changed=11 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 k0s-2 : ok=10 changed=5 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 k0s-3 : ok=10 changed=5 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 k0s-4 : ok=9 changed=5 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 k0s-5 : ok=9 changed=5 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 k0s-6 : ok=9 changed=5 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 k0s-7 : ok=9 changed=5 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 Tuesday 22 December 2020 17:43:36 +0100 (0:00:01.204) 0:00:57.478 ****** =============================================================================== prereq : Install apt packages -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22.70s k0s/controller : Wait for k8s apiserver ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4.30s k0s/initial_controller : Create worker join token ------------------------------------------------------- 3.38s k0s/initial_controller : Wait for k8s apiserver --------------------------------------------------------- 3.36s download : Download k0s binary k0s-v0.9.0-rc1-amd64 ----------------------------------------------------- 3.11s Gathering Facts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.85s Gathering Facts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.95s prereq : Create k0s Directories ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.53s k0s/worker : Enable and check k0s service --------------------------------------------------------------- 1.20s prereq : Write the k0s config file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.09s k0s/initial_controller : Enable and check k0s service --------------------------------------------------- 0.94s k0s/controller : Enable and check k0s service ----------------------------------------------------------- 0.73s Gathering Facts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.71s Gathering Facts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.66s Gathering Facts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.64s k0s/worker : Write the k0s token file on worker --------------------------------------------------------- 0.64s k0s/worker : Copy k0s service file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.53s k0s/controller : Write the k0s token file on controller ------------------------------------------------- 0.41s k0s/controller : Copy k0s service file ------------------------------------------------------------------ 0.40s k0s/initial_controller : Copy k0s service file ---------------------------------------------------------- 0.36s
Use the cluster with kubectl#
A kubeconfig was copied to your local machine while the playbook was running which you can use to gain access to your new Kubernetes cluster:
export KUBECONFIG=/Users/dev/k0s-ansible/inventory/multipass/artifacts/k0s-kubeconfig.yml
kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes control plane is running at https://192.168.64.32:6443
CoreDNS is running at https://192.168.64.32:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
Metrics-server is running at https://192.168.64.32:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:metrics-server:/proxy
$ kubectl get nodes -o wide
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME
k0s-4 Ready <none> 21s v1.20.1-k0s1 192.168.64.57 <none> Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 5.4.0-54-generic containerd://1.4.3
k0s-5 Ready <none> 21s v1.20.1-k0s1 192.168.64.58 <none> Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 5.4.0-54-generic containerd://1.4.3
k0s-6 NotReady <none> 21s v1.20.1-k0s1 192.168.64.60 <none> Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 5.4.0-54-generic containerd://1.4.3
k0s-7 NotReady <none> 21s v1.20.1-k0s1 192.168.64.61 <none> Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 5.4.0-54-generic containerd://1.4.3
Note: The first three control plane nodes will not display, as the control plane is fully isolated. To check on the distributed etcd cluster, you can use ssh to securely log a controller node, or you can run the following ad-hoc command:
ansible k0s-1 -a "k0s etcd member-list -c /etc/k0s/k0s.yaml" -i inventory/multipass/inventory.yml | tail -1 | jq
{
"level": "info",
"members": {
"k0s-1": "https://192.168.64.32:2380",
"k0s-2": "https://192.168.64.33:2380",
"k0s-3": "https://192.168.64.56:2380"
},
"msg": "done",
"time": "2020-12-23T00:21:22+01:00"
}
Once all worker nodes are at Ready state you can use the cluster. You can test the cluster state by creating a simple nginx deployment.
kubectl create deployment nginx --image=gcr.io/google-containers/nginx --replicas=5
deployment.apps/nginx created
kubectl expose deployment nginx --target-port=80 --port=8100
service/nginx exposed
kubectl run hello-k0s --image=quay.io/prometheus/busybox --rm -it --restart=Never --command -- wget -qO- nginx:8100
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx on Debian!</title>
...
pod "hello-k0s" deleted
Note: k0s users are the developers of k0s-ansible. Please send your feedback, bug reports, and pull requests to github.com/movd/k0s-ansible._