Start: 2022-12-25 15:58:37
Finished: 2022-12-25 16:19:50
There are some applications that need to be deployed on Kubernetes cluster and these apps have some pre-requisites where some configurations need to be changed before deploying the app container. Some of these changes cannot be made inside the images so the DevOps team has come up with a solution to use init containers to perform these tasks during deployment. Below is a sample scenario that the team is going to test first.
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Create a Deployment named as ic-deploy-xfusion.
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Configure spec as replicas should be 1, labels app should be ic-xfusion, template's metadata labels app should be the same ic-xfusion.
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The initContainers should be named as ic-msg-xfusion, use image debian, preferably with latest tag and use command:
- '/bin/bash',
- '-c' and
- 'echo Init Done - Welcome to xFusionCorp Industries > /ic/news'.
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The volume mount should be named as ic-volume-xfusion and mount path should be /ic.
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Main container should be named as ic-main-xfusion, use image debian, preferably with latest tag and use command:
- '/bin/bash',
- '-c' and
- 'while true; do cat /ic/news; sleep 5; done'.
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The volume mount should be named as ic-volume-xfusion and mount path should be /ic.
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Volume to be named as ic-volume-xfusion and it should be an emptyDir type.
Note: The kubectl utility on jump_host has been configured to work with the kubernetes cluster.
Create the manifest for the resource definitions.
$ vi deploy.yml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: ic-deploy-xfusion
labels:
app: ic-xfusion
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: ic-xfusion
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: ic-xfusion
spec:
initContainers:
- name: ic-msg-xfusion
image: debian:latest
command:
[
"/bin/bash",
"-c",
"echo Init Done - Welcome to xFusionCorp Industries > /ic/news",
]
volumeMounts:
- name: ic-volume-xfusion
mountPath: /ic
containers:
- name: ic-main-xfusion
image: debian:latest
command:
[
"/bin/bash",
"-c",
"while true; do cat /ic/news; sleep 5; done",
]
volumeMounts:
- name: ic-volume-xfusion
mountPath: /ic
volumes:
- name: ic-volume-xfusion
emptyDir: {}
Apply.
kubectl apply -f deploy.yml
Check the deployment and pods. Ensure that they are running.
thor@jump_host ~$ k get all
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/ic-deploy-xfusion-c6755cb4f-4hr6t 1/1 Running 0 18s
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 8m2s
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
deployment.apps/ic-deploy-xfusion 1/1 1 1 18s
NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE
replicaset.apps/ic-deploy-xfusion-c6755cb4f 1 1 1 18s
To verify the task, check the logs for the deployment. It should show the message:
thor@jump_host ~$ kubectl logs -f deployment/ic-deploy-xfusion
Defaulted container "ic-main-xfusion" out of: ic-main-xfusion, ic-msg-xfusion (init)
Init Done - Welcome to xFusionCorp Industries
Init Done - Welcome to xFusionCorp Industries
Init Done - Welcome to xFusionCorp Industries
Init Done - Welcome to xFusionCorp Industries