If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you should refer to the docs that go with that version.
The latest 1.0.x release of this document can be found [here](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.0/docs/getting-started-guides/mesos-docker.md).Documentation for other releases can be found at releases.k8s.io.
The mesos/docker provider uses docker-compose to launch Kubernetes as a Mesos framework, running in docker with its dependencies (etcd & mesos).
- kubernetes development
- pod/service development
- demoing
- fast deployment
- minimal hardware requirements
- minimal configuration
- entry point for exploration
- simplified networking
- fast end-to-end tests
- local deployment
Non-Goals:
- high availability
- fault tolerance
- remote deployment
- production usage
- monitoring
- long running
- state persistence across restarts
The cluster consists of several docker containers linked together by docker-managed hostnames:
Component | Hostname | Description |
---|---|---|
docker-grand-ambassador | Proxy to allow circular hostname linking in docker | |
etcd | etcd | Key/Value store used by Mesos |
Mesos Master | mesosmaster1 | REST endpoint for interacting with Mesos |
Mesos Slave (x2) | mesosslave1 mesosslave2 |
Mesos agents that offer resources and run framework executors (e.g. Kubernetes Kublets) |
Kubernetes API Server | apiserver | REST endpoint for interacting with Kubernetes |
Kubernetes Controller Manager | controller | |
Kubernetes Scheduler | scheduler | Schedules container deployment by accepting Mesos offers |
Required:
- Git - version control system
- Docker CLI - container management command line client
- Docker Engine - container management daemon
- On Mac, use Boot2Docker or Docker Machine
- Docker Compose - multi-container application orchestration
Optional:
- Virtual Box - x86 hardware virtualizer
- Required by Boot2Docker and Docker Machine
- Golang - Go programming language
- Required to build Kubernetes locally
- Make - Utility for building executables from source
- Required to build Kubernetes locally with make
It's possible to install all of the above via Homebrew on a Mac.
Some steps print instructions for configuring or launching. Make sure each is properly set up before continuing to the next step.
brew install git
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew cask install virtualbox
brew install docker
brew install boot2docker
boot2docker init
boot2docker up
brew install docker-compose
Most of the above are available via apt and yum, but depending on your distribution, you may have to install via other means to get the latest versions.
It is recommended to use Ubuntu, simply because it best supports AUFS, used by docker to mount volumes. Alternate file systems may not fully support docker-in-docker.
In order to build Kubernetes, the current user must be in a docker group with sudo privileges. See the docker docs for instructions.
If on a mac using boot2docker, the following steps will make the docker IPs (in the virtualbox VM) reachable from the host machine (mac).
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Set the VM's host-only network to "promiscuous mode":
boot2docker stop VBoxManage modifyvm boot2docker-vm --nicpromisc2 allow-all boot2docker start
This allows the VM to accept packets that were sent to a different IP.
Since the host-only network routes traffic between VMs and the host, other VMs will also be able to access the docker IPs, if they have the following route.
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Route traffic to docker through the boot2docker IP:
sudo route -n add -net 172.17.0.0 $(boot2docker ip)
Since the boot2docker IP can change when the VM is restarted, this route may need to be updated over time. To delete the route later:
sudo route delete 172.17.0.0
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Checkout source
git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes cd kubernetes
By default, that will get you the bleeding edge of master branch. You may want a release branch instead, if you have trouble with master.
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Build binaries
You'll need to build kubectl (CLI) for your local architecture and operating system and the rest of the server binaries for linux/amd64.
Building a new release covers both cases:
KUBERNETES_CONTRIB=mesos build/release.sh
For developers, it may be faster to build locally.
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[Optional] Build docker images
The following docker images are built as part of
./cluster/kube-up.sh
, but it may make sense to build them manually the first time because it may take a while.-
Test image includes all the dependencies required for running e2e tests.
./cluster/mesos/docker/test/build.sh
In the future, this image may be available to download. It doesn't contain anything specific to the current release, except its build dependencies.
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Kubernetes-Mesos image includes the compiled linux binaries.
./cluster/mesos/docker/km/build.sh
This image needs to be built every time you recompile the server binaries.
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[Optional] Configure Mesos resources
By default, the mesos-slaves are configured to offer a fixed amount of resources (cpus, memory, disk, ports). If you want to customize these values, update the
MESOS_RESOURCES
environment variables in./cluster/mesos/docker/docker-compose.yml
. If you delete theMESOS_RESOURCES
environment variables, the resource amounts will be auto-detected based on the host resources, which will over-provision by > 2x.If the configured resources are not available on the host, you may want to increase the resources available to Docker Engine. You may have to increase you VM disk, memory, or cpu allocation in VirtualBox, Docker Machine, or Boot2Docker.
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Configure provider
export KUBERNETES_PROVIDER=mesos/docker
This tells cluster scripts to use the code within
cluster/mesos/docker
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Create cluster
./cluster/kube-up.sh
If you manually built all the above docker images, you can skip that step during kube-up:
MESOS_DOCKER_SKIP_BUILD=true ./cluster/kube-up.sh
After deploying the cluster,
~/.kube/config
will be created or updated to configure kubectl to target the new cluster. -
Explore examples
To learn more about Pods, Volumes, Labels, Services, and Replication Controllers, start with the Kubernetes Walkthrough.
To skip to a more advanced example, see the Guestbook Example
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Destroy cluster
./cluster/kube-down.sh
The kube-up
for the mesos/docker provider will automatically deploy KubeDNS and KubeUI addons as pods/services.
Check their status with:
./cluster/kubectl.sh get pods --namespace=kube-system
The web-based Kubernetes UI is accessible in a browser through the API Server proxy: https://<apiserver>:6443/ui/
.
By default, basic-auth is configured with user admin
and password admin
.
The IP of the API Server can be found using ./cluster/kubectl.sh cluster-info
.
Warning: e2e tests can take a long time to run. You may not want to run them immediately if you're just getting started.
While your cluster is up, you can run the end-to-end tests:
./cluster/test-e2e.sh
Notable parameters:
- Increase the logging verbosity:
-v=2
- Run only a subset of the tests (regex matching):
-ginkgo.focus=<pattern>
To build, deploy, test, and destroy, all in one command (plus unit & integration tests):
make test_e2e
When compiling from source, it's simplest to use the ./cluster/kubectl.sh
script, which detects your platform &
architecture and proxies commands to the appropriate kubectl
binary.
ex: ./cluster/kubectl.sh get pods
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Kill all docker containers
docker ps -q -a | xargs docker rm -f
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Clean up unused docker volumes
docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /var/lib/docker:/var/lib/docker --rm martin/docker-cleanup-volumes
The steps above tell you how to build in a container, for minimal local dependencies. But if you have Go and Make installed you can build locally much faster:
KUBERNETES_CONTRIB=mesos make
However, if you're not on linux, you'll still need to compile the linux/amd64 server binaries:
KUBERNETES_CONTRIB=mesos build/run.sh hack/build-go.sh
The above two steps should be significantly faster than cross-compiling a whole new release for every supported platform (which is what ./build/release.sh
does).
Breakdown:
KUBERNETES_CONTRIB=mesos
- enables building of the contrib/mesos binarieshack/build-go.sh
- builds the Go binaries for the current architecture (linux/amd64 when in a docker container)make
- delegates tohack/build-go.sh
build/run.sh
- executes a command in the build containerbuild/release.sh
- cross compiles Kubernetes for all supported architectures and operating systems (slow)