kubernetes-the-hard-way/docs/04-kubernetes-controller.md

# Bootstrapping an H/A Kubernetes Control Plane

In this lab you will bootstrap a 3 node Kubernetes controller cluster. The following virtual machines will be used:

* controller0
* controller1
* controller2

In this lab you will also create a frontend load balancer with a public IP address for remote access to the API servers and H/A.

## Why

The Kubernetes components that make up the control plane include the following components:

* Kubernetes API Server
* Kubernetes Scheduler
* Kubernetes Controller Manager

Each component is being run on the same machines for the following reasons:

* The Scheduler and Controller Manager are tightly coupled with the API Server
* Only one Scheduler and Controller Manager can be active at a given time, but it's ok to run multiple at the same time. Each component will elect a leader via the API Server.
* Running multiple copies of each component is required for H/A
* Running each component next to the API Server eases configuration.

## Setup Authentication and Authorization

### Authentication

[Token based authentication](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authentication) will be used to bootstrap the Kubernetes cluster. The authentication token is used by the following components:

* kubelet (client)
* Kubernetes API Server (server)

The other components, mainly the `scheduler` and `controller manager`, access the Kubernetes API server locally over the insecure API port which does not require authentication. The insecure port is only enabled for local access.

Generate a token:

BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN=$(head -c 16 /dev/urandom | od -An -t x | tr -d ' ')

Generate a token file:

```
cat > token.csv <<EOF
${BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN},kubelet-bootstrap,10001,"system:kubelet-bootstrap"
EOF
```

Copy the `token.csv` file to each controller node:

```
KUBERNETES_CONTROLLERS=(controller0 controller1 controller2)
```
```
for host in ${KUBERNETES_CONTROLLERS[*]}; do
  gcloud compute copy-files token.csv ${host}:~/
done
```

Generate a bootstrap kubeconfig file:

KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=$(gcloud compute addresses describe kubernetes \
  --format 'value(address)')

```
cat > bootstrap.kubeconfig <<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Config
clusters:
  - name: kubernetes
    cluster:
      certificate-authority: /var/lib/kubernetes/ca.pem
      server: https://${KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS}:6443
contexts:
  - name: kubelet-bootstrap
    context:
      cluster: kubernetes
      user: kubelet-bootstrap
current-context: kubelet-bootstrap
users:
  - name: kubelet-bootstrap
    user:
      token: ${BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN}
EOF
```

Copy the bootstrap kubeconfig file to each worker node:

```
KUBERNETES_WORKER_NODES=(worker0 worker1 worker2)
```
```
for host in ${KUBERNETES_WORKER_NODES[*]}; do
  gcloud compute copy-files bootstrap.kubeconfig ${host}:~/
done
```

## Provision the Kubernetes Controller Cluster

Run the following commands on `controller0`, `controller1`, `controller2`:

Copy the bootstrap token into place:

```
sudo mv token.csv /var/lib/kubernetes/
```

### TLS Certificates

The TLS certificates created in the [Setting up a CA and TLS Cert Generation](02-certificate-authority.md) lab will be used to secure communication between the Kubernetes API server and Kubernetes clients such as `kubectl` and the `kubelet` agent. The TLS certificates will also be used to authenticate the Kubernetes API server to etcd via TLS client auth.

Copy the TLS certificates to the Kubernetes configuration directory:

```
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/kubernetes
```

```
sudo mv ca.pem ca-key.pem kubernetes-key.pem kubernetes.pem /var/lib/kubernetes/
```

### Download and install the Kubernetes controller binaries

Download the official Kubernetes release binaries:

```
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.0-beta.4/bin/linux/amd64/kube-apiserver
```
```
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.0-beta.4/bin/linux/amd64/kube-controller-manager
```
```
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.0-beta.4/bin/linux/amd64/kube-scheduler
```
```
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.0-beta.4/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
```

Install the Kubernetes binaries:

```
chmod +x kube-apiserver kube-controller-manager kube-scheduler kubectl
```

```
sudo mv kube-apiserver kube-controller-manager kube-scheduler kubectl /usr/bin/
```

### Kubernetes API Server


### Create the systemd unit file 

Capture the internal IP address:

#### GCE

```
INTERNAL_IP=$(curl -s -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" \
  http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/ip)
```

```
CLOUD_PROVIDER=gcp
```

#### AWS

```
INTERNAL_IP=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4)
```
```
CLOUD_PROVIDER=aws
```

---

Create the systemd unit file:

```
cat > kube-apiserver.service <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Kubernetes API Server
Documentation=https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/kube-apiserver \\
  --admission-control=NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,DefaultStorageClass,ResourceQuota \\
  --advertise-address=${INTERNAL_IP} \\
  --allow-privileged=true \\
  --apiserver-count=3 \\
  --audit-log-maxage=30 \\
  --audit-log-maxbackup=3 \\
  --audit-log-maxsize=100 \\
  --audit-log-path="/var/lib/audit.log" \\
  --authorization-mode=RBAC \\
  --bind-address=0.0.0.0 \\
  --client-ca-file=/var/lib/kubernetes/ca.pem \\
  --cloud-provider=${CLOUD_PROVIDER} \\
  --enable-swagger-ui=true \\
  --etcd-cafile=/var/lib/kubernetes/ca.pem \\
  --etcd-certfile=/var/lib/kubernetes/kubernetes.pem \\
  --etcd-keyfile=/var/lib/kubernetes/kubernetes-key.pem \\
  --etcd-servers=https://10.240.0.10:2379,https://10.240.0.11:2379,https://10.240.0.12:2379 \\
  --event-ttl=1h \\
  --experimental-bootstrap-token-auth \\
  --insecure-bind-address=0.0.0.0 \\
  --kubelet-certificate-authority=/var/lib/kubernetes/ca.pem \\
  --kubelet-client-certificate=/var/lib/kubernetes/kubernetes.pem \\
  --kubelet-client-key=/var/lib/kubernetes/kubernetes-key.pem \\
  --kubelet-https=true \\
  --runtime-config=rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1alpha1 \\
  --service-account-key-file=/var/lib/kubernetes/kubernetes-key.pem \\
  --service-cluster-ip-range=10.32.0.0/24 \\
  --service-node-port-range=30000-32767 \\
  --tls-cert-file=/var/lib/kubernetes/kubernetes.pem \\
  --tls-private-key-file=/var/lib/kubernetes/kubernetes-key.pem \\
  --token-auth-file=/var/lib/kubernetes/token.csv \\
  --v=2
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

Start the `kube-apiserver` service:

```
sudo mv kube-apiserver.service /etc/systemd/system/
```

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable kube-apiserver
sudo systemctl start kube-apiserver
```

```
sudo systemctl status kube-apiserver --no-pager
```

### Kubernetes Controller Manager

```
cat > kube-controller-manager.service <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Kubernetes Controller Manager
Documentation=https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/kube-controller-manager \\
  --address=0.0.0.0 \\
  --allocate-node-cidrs=true \\
  --cloud-provider=${CLOUD_PROVIDER} \\
  --cluster-cidr=10.200.0.0/16 \\
  --cluster-name=kubernetes \\
  --cluster-signing-cert-file="/var/lib/kubernetes/ca.pem" \\
  --cluster-signing-key-file="/var/lib/kubernetes/ca-key.pem" \\
  --leader-elect=true \\
  --master=http://${INTERNAL_IP}:8080 \\
  --root-ca-file=/var/lib/kubernetes/ca.pem \\
  --service-account-private-key-file=/var/lib/kubernetes/ca-key.pem \\
  --service-cluster-ip-range=10.32.0.0/16 \\
  --v=2
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

Start the `kube-controller-manager` service:

```
sudo mv kube-controller-manager.service /etc/systemd/system/
```

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable kube-controller-manager
sudo systemctl start kube-controller-manager
```

```
sudo systemctl status kube-controller-manager --no-pager
```

### Kubernetes Scheduler

```
cat > kube-scheduler.service <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Kubernetes Scheduler
Documentation=https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/kube-scheduler \\
  --leader-elect=true \\
  --master=http://${INTERNAL_IP}:8080 \\
  --v=2
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

Start the `kube-scheduler` service:

```
sudo mv kube-scheduler.service /etc/systemd/system/
```

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable kube-scheduler
sudo systemctl start kube-scheduler
```

```
sudo systemctl status kube-scheduler --no-pager
```


### Verification

```
kubectl get componentstatuses
```
```
NAME                 STATUS    MESSAGE              ERROR
controller-manager   Healthy   ok                   
scheduler            Healthy   ok                   
etcd-0               Healthy   {"health": "true"}   
etcd-1               Healthy   {"health": "true"}   
etcd-2               Healthy   {"health": "true"}  
```

> Remember to run these steps on `controller0`, `controller1`, and `controller2`

## Setup Kubernetes API Server Frontend Load Balancer

The virtual machines created in this tutorial will not have permission to complete this section. Run the following commands from the same place used to create the virtual machines for this tutorial. 

### GCE

```
gcloud compute http-health-checks create kube-apiserver-check \
  --description "Kubernetes API Server Health Check" \
  --port 8080 \
  --request-path /healthz
```

```
gcloud compute target-pools create kubernetes-pool \
  --http-health-check=kube-apiserver-check
```

```
gcloud compute target-pools add-instances kubernetes-pool \
  --instances controller0,controller1,controller2
```

```
KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=$(gcloud compute addresses describe kubernetes \
  --format 'value(address)')
```

```
gcloud compute forwarding-rules create kubernetes-rule \
  --address ${KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS} \
  --ports 6443 \
  --target-pool kubernetes-pool
```

### AWS

```
aws elb register-instances-with-load-balancer \
  --load-balancer-name kubernetes \
  --instances ${CONTROLLER_0_INSTANCE_ID} ${CONTROLLER_1_INSTANCE_ID} ${CONTROLLER_2_INSTANCE_ID}
```

## RBAC

Set up bootstrapping roles:

```
kubectl create clusterrolebinding kubelet-bootstrap \
  --clusterrole=system:node-bootstrapper \
  --user=kubelet-bootstrap
```