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Wednesday 4 April 2018

Install Pivotal Container Service (PKS) on GCP and getting started

With the release of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.1 (PCF) I decided this time to install Pivotal Application Service (PAS) as well as Pivotal Container Service (PKS) using the one Bosh Director which isn't recommended for production installs BUT ok for dev installs. Once installed you will have both the PAS tile and PKS tile as shown below.

https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-cloud-foundry-2-1-adds-cloud-native-net-envoy-native-service-discovery-to-boost-your-transformation


So here is how to get started with PKS once it's installed

1. Create a user for the PKS client to login with.

1.1. ssh into the ops manager VM

1.2. Target the UAA endpoint for PKS this was setup in the PKS tile

ubuntu@opsman-pcf:~$ uaac target https://PKS-ENDPOINT:8443 --skip-ssl-validation
Unknown key: Max-Age = 86400

Target: https://PKS-ENDPOINT:8443

1.3. Authenticate with UAA using the secret you retrieve from the PKS tile / Credentials tab as shown in the image below. Run the following command, replacing UAA-ADMIN-SECRET with your UAA admin secret

ubuntu@opsman-pcf:~$ uaac token client get admin -s UAA-ADMIN-SECRET
Unknown key: Max-Age = 86400

Successfully fetched token via client credentials grant.
Target: https://PKS-ENDPIONT:8443
Context: admin, from client admin



1.4. Create an ADMIN user as shown below using the UAA-ADMIN-SECRET password obtained form ops manager UI as shown above

ubuntu@opsman-pcf:~$ uaac user add pas --emails papicella@pivotal.io -p PASSWD
user account successfully added

ubuntu@opsman-pcf:~$ uaac member add pks.clusters.admin pas
success

2. Now lets login using the PKS CLI with a new admin user we created

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks login -a PKS-ENDPOINT -u pas -p PASSWD -k

API Endpoint: pks-api.pks.pas-apples.online
User: pas

3. You can test whether you have a DNS issue with a command as follows. 

Note: A test as follows determines any DNS issues you may have

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ nc -vz PKS-ENDPOINT 8443
found 0 associations
found 1 connections:
     1: flags=82
outif en0
src 192.168.1.111 port 62124
dst 35.189.1.209 port 8443
rank info not available
TCP aux info available

Connection to PKS-ENDPOINT port 8443 [tcp/pcsync-https] succeeded!

4. You can run a simple command to verify your connected as follows, below shows no K8's clusters exist at this stage

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks list-clusters

Name  Plan Name  UUID  Status  Action

You can use PKS CLI to create a new cluster, view clusters, resize clusters etc

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks

The Pivotal Container Service (PKS) CLI is used to create, manage, and delete Kubernetes clusters. To deploy workloads to a Kubernetes cluster created using the PKS CLI, use the Kubernetes CLI, kubectl.

Version: 1.0.0-build.3

Note: The PKS CLI is under development, and is subject to change at any time.

Usage:
  pks [command]

Available Commands:
  cluster         View the details of the cluster
  clusters        Show all clusters created with PKS
  create-cluster  Creates a kubernetes cluster, requires cluster name and an external host name
  delete-cluster  Deletes a kubernetes cluster, requires cluster name
  get-credentials Allows you to connect to a cluster and use kubectl
  help            Help about any command
  login           Login to PKS
  logout          Logs user out of the PKS API
  plans           View the preconfigured plans available
  resize          Increases the number of worker nodes for a cluster

Flags:
  -h, --help      help for pks
      --version   version for pks

Use "pks [command] --help" for more information about a command.

5. You would create a cluster as follows now you have logged in and yu will get aK8's cluster to begin working with

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks create-cluster my-cluster --external-hostname EXT-LB-HOST --plan small

Name:                     my-cluster
Plan Name:                small
UUID:                     64a086ce-c94f-4c51-95f8-5a5edb3d1476
Last Action:              CREATE
Last Action State:        in progress
Last Action Description:  Creating cluster
Kubernetes Master Host:   cluster1.FQDN
Kubernetes Master Port:   8443
Worker Instances:         3
Kubernetes Master IP(s):  In Progress

Finally when done you will see "Last Action:" as "succeeded" as shown below

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks cluster my-cluster

Name:                     my-cluster
Plan Name:                small
UUID:                     64a086ce-c94f-4c51-95f8-5a5edb3d1476
Last Action:              CREATE
Last Action State:        succeeded
Last Action Description:  Instance provisioning completed
Kubernetes Master Host:   cluster1.FQDN
Kubernetes Master Port:   8443
Worker Instances:         3
Kubernetes Master IP(s):  MASTER-IP-ADDRESS

More Info

https://docs.pivotal.io/runtimes/pks/1-0/index.html


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