I'm using kubernetes from docker for windows and I encountered problem. I use statefulset with following part of config:
spec:
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 300
hostNetwork: true
dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
In classic kubernetes this spec exposes all ports from pod on node ip, so all of them can be accessed through it. I'm trying to develop it on kubernetes from docker for windows, but it seems that I cannot access node by it's ip (like in minikube or microk8s), but docker for windows maps localhost to the cluster. So here is a problem: this config exposes all ports on node ip, which is for example 192.168.65.4, but i cannot access it from windows - I can only access cluster via localhost, but it only exposes protocol related port, for example 443. So when my service runs on port i.e. 10433, there is no access from localhost:10433 but also there is no access in general through node ip. Is there any way to configure it to work as classic kubernetes, where all ports are exposed? I know that single port can be exposed through NodePort, but it's important for me to expose all ports from the pod to imitate real kubernetes behaviour
In general, Docker host networking doesn't work on non-Linux platforms. It's accepted as a valid Docker option, but the "host" network isn't actually the physical system's network. This probably applies to the Kubernetes setup embedded in Docker Desktop as well.
It should be pretty rare to need host networking, and even more unusual in Kubernetes. Host networking disables the normal inter-container communication mechanisms. Kubernetes in particular has a complex network environment and there is usually more than one node; opting out of the network setup like this can make it all but impossible to reach your service, either from inside the cluster or outside.
Instead of host networking, you should use the normal Kubernetes networking setup. Pretty much every Deployment you create will need a matching Service, and if you set that Service to have type: nodePort then it will be accessible from outside the cluster (try both the assigned nodePort: number and the service's cluster-internal port:; it's not clear which port Docker Desktop actually uses).
For some purposes, the easiest approach is to set up a local port-forward to the service
kubectl port-forward deployment/some-deployment 8888:3000
will set up a port-forward from port 8888 on the local system to port 3000 on some pod managed by the named deployment. This forwards to a single pod (if you have multiple replicas, it targets only one of them), it's slower than a direct connection, and the port-forward will fail occasionally, but this is good enough for maintenance tasks like database migrations.
imitate real kubernetes behaviour
In the environment I work on normally, each cluster has dozens to hundreds of nodes. The nodes can't be directly accessed from outside the cluster. It's also reasonably common to configure a PodSecurityPolicy to disallow host networking since it can be viewed as a security concern.
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I have several Windows servers available and would like to setup a Kubernetes cluster on them.
Is there some tool or a step by step instruction how to do so?
What I tried so far is to install DockerDesktop and enable its Kubernetes feature.
That gives me a single node Cluster. However, adding additional nodes to that Docker-Kubernetes Cluster (from different Windows hosts) does not seem to be possible:
Docker desktop kubernetes add node
Should I first create a Docker Swarm and could then run Kubernetes on that Swarm? Or are there other strategies?
I guess that I need to open some ports in the Windows Firewall Settings of the hosts? And map those ports to some Docker containers in which Kubernetes is will be installed? What ports?
Is there some program that I could install on each Windows host and that would help me with setting up a network with multiple hosts and connecting the Kubernetes nodes running inside Docker containers? Like a "kubeadm for Windows"?
Would be great if you could give me some hint on the right direction.
Edit:
Related info about installing kubeadm inside Docker container:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/35712
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/17
Related question about Minikube:
Adding nodes to a Windows Minikube Kubernetes Installation - How?
Info on kind (kubernetes in docker) multi-node cluster:
https://dotnetninja.net/2021/03/running-a-multi-node-kubernetes-cluster-on-windows-with-kind/
(Creates multi-node kubernetes cluster on single windows host)
Also see:
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/2652
https://hub.docker.com/r/kindest/node
You can always refer to the official kubernetes documentation which is the right source for the information.
This is the correct way to manage this question.
Based on Adding Windows nodes, you need to have two prerequisites:
Obtain a Windows Server 2019 license (or higher) in order to configure the Windows node that hosts Windows containers. If you are
using VXLAN/Overlay networking you must have also have KB4489899
installed.
A Linux-based Kubernetes kubeadm cluster in which you have access to the control plane (see Creating a single control-plane cluster with kubeadm).
Second point is especially important since all control plane components are supposed to be run on linux systems (I guess you can run a Linux VM on one of the servers to host a control plane components on it, but networking will be much more complicated).
And once you have a proper running control plane, there's a kubeadm for windows to proper join Windows nodes to the kubernetes cluster. As well as a documentation on how to upgrade windows nodes.
For firewall and which ports should be open check ports and protocols.
For worker node (which will be windows nodes):
Protocol Direction Port Range Purpose Used By
TCP Inbound 10250 Kubelet API Self, Control plane
TCP Inbound 30000-32767 NodePort Services All
Another option can be running windows nodes in cloud managed kuberneres, for example GKE with windows node pool (yes, I understand that it's not your use-case, but for further reference).
Should I run consul slaves alongside nomad slaves or inside them?
The later might not make sense at all but I'm asking it just in case.
I brought my own nomad cluster up with consul slaves running alongside nomad slaves (inside worker nodes), my deployable artifacts are docker containers (java spring applications).
The issue with my current setup is that my applications can't access consul slaves (to read configurations) (none of 0.0.0.0, localhost, worker node ip worked)
Lets say my service exposes 8080, I configured docker part (in hcl file) to use bridge as network mode. Nomad maps 8080 to 43210.
Everything is fine until my service tries to reach the consul slave to read configuration. Ideally giving nomad worker node IP as consul host to Spring should suffice. But for some reason it's not.
I'm using latest version of nomad.
I configured my nomad slaves like https://github.com/bmd007/statefull-geofencing-faas/blob/master/infrastructure/nomad/client1.hcl
And the link below shows how I configured/ran my consul slave:
https://github.com/bmd007/statefull-geofencing-faas/blob/master/infrastructure/server2.yml
Note: if I use static port mapping and host as the network mode for docker (in nomad) I'll be fine but then I can't deploy more than one instance of each application in each worker node (due to port conflic)
Nomad jobs listen on a specific host/port pair.
You might want to ssh into the server and run docker ps to see what host/port pair the job is listening on.
a93c5cb46a3e image-name bash 2 hours ago Up 2 hours 10.0.47.2:21435->8000/tcp, 10.0.47.2:21435->8000/udp foo-bar
Additionally, you will need to ensure that the consul nomad job is listening on port 0.0.0.0, or the specific ip of the machine. I believe that is this config value: https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_bind
All those will need to match up in order to consul to be reachable.
More generally, I might recommend: if you're going to run consul with nomad, you might want to switch to host networking, so that you don't have to deal with the specifics of the networking within a container. Additionally, you could schedule consul as a system job so that it is automatically present on every host.
So I managed to solve the issue like this:
nomad.job.group.network.mode = host
nomad.job.group.network.port: port "http" {}
nomad.job.group.task.driver = docker
nomad.job.group.task.config.network_mode = host
nomad.job.group.task.config.ports = ["http"]
nomad.job.group.task.service.connect: connect { native = true }
nomad.job.group.task.env: SERVER_PORT= "${NOMAD_PORT_http}"
nomad.job.group.task.env: SPRING_CLOUD_CONSUL_HOST = "localhost"
nomad.job.group.task.env: SPRING_CLOUD_SERVICE_REGISTRY_AUTO_REGISTRATION_ENABLED = "false"
Running consul agent (slaves) using docker-compose alongside nomad agent (slave) with host as network mode + exposing all required ports.
Example of nomad job: https://github.com/bmd007/statefull-geofencing-faas/blob/master/infrastructure/nomad/location-update-publisher.hcl
Example of consul agent config (docker-compose file): https://github.com/bmd007/statefull-geofencing-faas/blob/master/infrastructure/server2.yml
Disclaimer: The LAB is part of Cluster Visualization Framework called: LiteArch Trafik which I have created as an interesting exercise to understand Nomad and Consul.
It took me long time to shift my mind from K8S to Nomad and Consul,
Integration them was one of my effort I spent in the last year.
When service resolution doesn't work, I found out it's more or less the DNS configuration on servers.
There is a section for it on Hashicorp documentation called DNS Forwarding
Hashicorp DNS Forwarding
I have created a LAB which explains how to set up Nomad and Consul.
But you can use the LAB seperately.
I created the LAB after learning the hard way how to install the cluster and how to integrate Nomad and Consul.
With the LAB you need Ubuntu Multipass installed.
You execute one script and you will get full functional Cluster locally with three servers and three nodes.
It shows you as well how to install docker and integrate the services with Consul and DNS services on Ubuntu.
After running the LAB you will get the links to Nomad, Fabio, Consul.
Hopefully it will guide you through the learning process of Nomad and Consul
LAB: LAB
Trafik:Trafik Visualizer
I'm used to connect to my cluster using telepresence and access cluster services locally.
Now, I need to make services in the cluster available to a group of applications that are running in docker containers locally. We can say that it's the inverse use case.
I've an app that is running in a docker container. It access services that are deploy using docker-compose. It has been done by using a network:
docker network create myNetwork
// Make app 1 to use it
docker network connect myNetwork app1
// App 2 uses docker compose, so myNetwork is defined in it and here I just:
docker-compose up
My app1 access correctly the containers/services running in app2. However, I still need it to access a service from my cluster!
I've tried make a tunnel from my host to the cluster with telepresence and then try to access the service as if it were in my host. However it seems not to work. If I go into my app1 container and do a curl to see if the service name resolves:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: my_cluster_service_name
Is my approach wrong? Am I missing an operation or consideration? How could I accomplish it?
Docker version: Docker version 19.03.8 for Mac
I've find a way to solve the problem.
Instead of trying to use telepresence as for the inverse use case, solution comes by using a port-forward with k9s. When creating it, it's important to do not leave the default interface, that is set to localhost, and put 0.0.0.0 instead to ensure that it listens traffic from all interfaces.
Then I've changed my containers from inside, making the services to point to my host's IP when trying to resolve the service names. Use the method that better fits your case for this: since it's not a production environment I just tried hardcoding my host IP manually to check if the connectivity was achieved.
To point to an specific service of your cluster you need to use different ports since they will be all mapped to your host with different port-forwards. Name resolving is no longer needed.
With this configuration, your container request will reach your host, where the port-forward routes it to the cluster. Connectivity is OK with this setup and the problem is solved.
I have a simple one master (Ubuntu 1604), one worker (Windows Server 1803) Kubernetes cluster running in AWS. I am using Flannel for networking.
I have been able to deploy windows containers using kubectl from the master without issue. Deploying multiple pods shows they are able to talk to each other. But I am not able to ping or curl the pods from even the Kubernetes windows node host, or from the open internet. Also, the pods are not able to communicate with the outside internet either. (Can't curl external DNS names or even IP addresses.)
Side note: Deploying the same image directly with Docker on the Windows node is able to connect to the internet and be accessed over the internet.
I used the following setup from Microsoft, which uses kubeadm, flannel and scripts from Microsoft SDN repo.
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=E2B6765015E5FA01!339&ithint=file%2cdocx&app=Word&authkey=!AGvs_s_hWs7xHGs
It is my understanding that on Windows the host network interface is not connected to the Kubernetes network interface by default, but the Docker network uses the default interface. Which might be why docker deployments can be accessed but Kubernetes deployments cannot.
However, I haven't found info on connecting these networks when using Flannel for pod communication on Windows.
I can add any logs or config info that anyone thinks is useful.
Any thoughts? Thanks for your help!
More Details:
I am looking into this: https://unofficial-kubernetes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started-guides/windows/ which describes connecting network interfaces between the Windows default and Kubernetes, but does not seem to rely on the same Flannel Host-GW model I used to set this up.
Assume the following stack:
A dedicated server
The server is running Vagrant
Vagrant is running 2 virtual machines master + minion-1 (Kubernetes)
minion-1 is running a pod
Within the pod is 2 containers: webservice and fileservice
Both webservice and fileservice should be accessible from internet i.e. from outside. Either by web.mydomain.com - file.mydomain.com or www.mydomain.com/web/ - www.mydomain.com/file/
Before using Kubernetes, I was using a remote proxy (HAproxy) and simply mapped domain names to an internal ip / port.
Now with Kubernetes, I can imagine there is something dedicated to this task but I honestly have no clue from where to start.
I read about "createExternalLoadBalancer", kubernetes Services and kube-proxy. Should a reverse-proxy still be put somewhere (before vagrant or within a pod ?) also is using Vagrant a good option for production (staying in the scope of this question) ?
The easiest thing for you to do at the moment is to make a service of type "nodePort", and to configure your HAproxy to point at minion-1:.
createExternalLoadBalancer is the old, less flexible, way to do this--it requires the cloud provider to do work. Type=nodePort doesn't require anything special from the cloud provider.