Kubernetes Entrypoint

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Kubernetes-entrypoint enables complex deployments on top of Kubernetes.

Overview

Kubernetes-entrypoint is meant to be used as a container entrypoint, which means it has to bundled in the container. Before launching the desired application, the entrypoint verifies and waits for all specified dependencies to be met.

The Kubernetes-entrypoint queries directly the Kubernetes API and each container is self-aware of its dependencies and their states. Therefore, no centralized orchestration layer is required to manage deployments and scenarios such as failure recovery or pod migration become easy.

Usage

Kubernetes-entrypoint reads the dependencies out of environment variables passed into a container. There is only one required environment variable "COMMAND" which specifies a command (arguments delimited by whitespace) which has to be executed when all dependencies are resolved:

COMMAND="sleep inf"

Kubernetes-entrypoint introduces a wide variety of dependencies which can be used to better orchestrate once deployment.

Supported types of dependencies

All dependencies are passed as environement variables in format of DEPENDENCY_<NAME> delimited by colon. For dependencies to be effective please use readiness probes for all containers.

Service

Checks whether given kubernetes service has at least one endpoint.
Example:

DEPENDENCY_SERVICE=mariadb,keystone-api

Container

Within a pod composed of multiple containers, it waits for the containers specified by their names to start. This dependency requires a POD_NAME environement variable which can be easily passed through the downward api. Example:

DEPENDENCY_CONTAINER=nova-libvirt,virtlogd

Daemonset

Checks if a specified daemonset is already running on the same host, this dependency requires a POD_NAME env which can be easily passed through the downward api. Example:

DEPENDENCY_DAEMONSET=openvswitch-agent

Job

Checks if a given job succeded at least once. Example:

DEPENDENCY_JOBS=nova-init,neutron-init

Config

This dependency performs a container level templating of configuration files. It can template an ip address {{ .IP }} and hostname {{ .HOSTNAME }}. Templated config has to be stored in an arbitrary directory /configmaps/<name_of_file>/<name_of_file>. This dependency requires INTERFACE_NAME environment variable to know which interface to use for obtain ip address. Example:

DEPENDENCY_CONFIG=/etc/nova/nova.conf

The Kubernetes-entrypoint will look for the configuration file /configmaps/nova.conf/nova.conf, template {{ .IP }} and {{ .HOSTNAME }} tags and save the file as /etc/nova/nova.conf.

Socket

Checks whether a given file exists and container has rights to read it. Example:

DEPENDENCY_SOCKET=/var/run/openvswitch/ovs.socket

Examples

Stackanetes uses kubernetes-entrypoint to manage dependencies when deploying OpenStack on Kubernetes.