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Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning - Google Cloud Platform

This lab will walk you through provisioning the compute instances required for running a H/A Kubernetes cluster. A total of 6 virtual machines will be created.

After completing this guide you should have the following compute instances:

gcloud compute instances list

NAME         ZONE           MACHINE_TYPE   PREEMPTIBLE  INTERNAL_IP  EXTERNAL_IP      STATUS
controller0  us-central1-f  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.10  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RUNNING
controller1  us-central1-f  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.11  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RUNNING
controller2  us-central1-f  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.12  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RUNNING
worker0      us-central1-f  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.20  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RUNNING
worker1      us-central1-f  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.21  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RUNNING
worker2      us-central1-f  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.22  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RUNNING

All machines will be provisioned with fixed private IP addresses to simplify the bootstrap process.

To make our Kubernetes control plane remotely accessible, a public IP address will be provisioned and assigned to a Load Balancer that will sit in front of the 3 Kubernetes controllers.

Prerequisites

Set the compute region and zone to us-central1:

gcloud config set compute/region us-central1

gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-f

Setup Networking

Create a custom virtual network on GCP:

gcloud compute networks create kubernetes-the-hard-way --mode custom

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vpc/

A virtual network allows your machines to talk to each other over a private network, inaccessible from the outside world unless you create firewall rules to allow access.

The --mode=custom flag means you will need to create subnets within this network manually. --mode=auto would cause subnets to be created automatically.

Create a subnet called kubernetes for your instances:

gcloud compute networks subnets create kubernetes \
  --network kubernetes-the-hard-way \
  --range 10.240.0.0/24 \
  --region us-central1

While your virtual network exists across all GCP regions, a subnet is a range of private IP addresses within a single region. Instances are created within a subnet.

10.240.0.0/24 means IPs from 10.240.0.0 to 10.240.0.254.

Create Firewall Rules

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vpc/firewalls

A GCP network also acts as a firewall. By default no connections are allowed from the outside world, and connections between instances are also forbidden. We can add firewall rules to allow our instances to talk to each other within the network.

This creates a rule called allow-internal which allows TCP, UDP and ICMP connections between all machines in your 10.240.0.0/24 subnet, and also enables those machines to talk to the CIDR range 10.200.0.0/16:

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-internal \
  --allow tcp,udp,icmp \
  --network kubernetes-the-hard-way \
  --source-ranges 10.240.0.0/24,10.200.0.0/16

This rule (called allow-external) allows traffic on TCP port 22 (SSH), 3389 (unsure why, see #160) and port 6443 (kubernetes). It also allows ICMP traffic.

0.0.0.0/0 means "apply to all ranges", hence this rule allows gives access to external traffic from outside the network.

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-external \
  --allow tcp:22,tcp:3389,tcp:6443,icmp \
  --network kubernetes-the-hard-way \
  --source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0

Finally we create a rule called allow-healthz to allow the Google Cloud Platform's healthcheck mechanism to access the Kubernetes /_status/healthz API, which runs on port 8080.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/health-checks

GCP health check probes come from addresses in the ranges 130.211.0.0/22 and 35.191.0.0/16, so we need to provide those as the --source-ranges:

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-healthz \
  --allow tcp:8080 \
  --network kubernetes-the-hard-way \
  --source-ranges 130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16

Our firewall rules should now look like this:

gcloud compute firewall-rules list --filter "network=kubernetes-the-hard-way"

NAME            NETWORK                  SRC_RANGES                   RULES                          SRC_TAGS  TARGET_TAGS
allow-external  kubernetes-the-hard-way  0.0.0.0/0                    tcp:22,tcp:3389,tcp:6443,icmp
allow-healthz   kubernetes-the-hard-way  130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16 tcp:8080
allow-internal  kubernetes-the-hard-way  10.240.0.0/24,10.200.0.0/16  tcp,udp,icmp

Create the Kubernetes Public Address

Create a public IP address that will be used by remote clients to connect to the Kubernetes control plane:

gcloud compute addresses create kubernetes-the-hard-way --region=us-central1

gcloud compute addresses list kubernetes-the-hard-way

NAME                     REGION       ADDRESS          STATUS
kubernetes-the-hard-way  us-central1  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RESERVED

Provision Virtual Machines

All the VMs in this lab will be provisioned using Ubuntu 16.04 mainly because it runs a newish Linux kernel with good support for Docker.

Virtual Machines

Kubernetes Controllers

gcloud compute instances create controller0 \
 --boot-disk-size 200GB \
 --can-ip-forward \
 --image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20170307 \
 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
 --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
 --private-network-ip 10.240.0.10 \
 --subnet kubernetes

gcloud compute instances create controller1 \
 --boot-disk-size 200GB \
 --can-ip-forward \
 --image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20170307 \
 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
 --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
 --private-network-ip 10.240.0.11 \
 --subnet kubernetes

gcloud compute instances create controller2 \
 --boot-disk-size 200GB \
 --can-ip-forward \
 --image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20170307 \
 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
 --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
 --private-network-ip 10.240.0.12 \
 --subnet kubernetes

Kubernetes Workers

Include socat depedency on worker VMs to enable kubelet's portfw functionality.

gcloud compute instances create worker0 \
 --boot-disk-size 200GB \
 --can-ip-forward \
 --image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20170307 \
 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
 --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
 --private-network-ip 10.240.0.20 \
 --subnet kubernetes \
 --metadata startup-script='#! /bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get install -y socat
EOF'

gcloud compute instances create worker1 \
 --boot-disk-size 200GB \
 --can-ip-forward \
 --image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20170307 \
 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
 --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
 --private-network-ip 10.240.0.21 \
 --subnet kubernetes \
 --metadata startup-script='#! /bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get install -y socat
EOF'

gcloud compute instances create worker2 \
 --boot-disk-size 200GB \
 --can-ip-forward \
 --image ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20170307 \
 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
 --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
 --private-network-ip 10.240.0.22 \
 --subnet kubernetes \
 --metadata startup-script='#! /bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get install -y socat
EOF'