Clusters

Next we want to register Kubernetes Clusters into KubeCarrier. To begin you need another Kubeconfig.

If you don’t have another Kubernetes Cluster, just go back to 0. Requirements and create another cluster with Kind. In this example we will use the name eu-west-1 for this new cluster.

When you create another cluster with Kind, you have to work with the internal Kubeconfig of the cluster, see command below:

kind get kubeconfig --internal --name eu-west-1 > /tmp/eu-west-1-kubeconfig

This will replace the default localhost:xxxx address with the container’s IP address, allowing KubeCarrier to talk with the other kind cluster.

When creating a new cluster with kind your active context will be switched to the newly created cluster. Check kubectl config current-context and use kubectl config use-context to switch back to the right cluster.

To begin, we have to upload our Kubeconfig as a Secret into our Account Namespace.

$ kubectl create secret generic eu-west-1-kubeconfig \
  -n team-a \
  --from-file=kubeconfig=/tmp/eu-west-1-kubeconfig
secret/eu-west-1-kubeconfig created

Now that we have the credentials and connection information, we can register the Cluster into KubeCarrier.

apiVersion: kubecarrier.io/v1alpha1
kind: ServiceCluster
metadata:
  name: eu-west-1
spec:
  metadata:
    displayName: EU West 1
  kubeconfigSecret:
    name: eu-west-1-kubeconfig

Create the object with:

$ kubectl apply -n team-a \
  -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubermatic/kubecarrier/v0.2.0/docs/manifests/servicecluster.yaml
servicecluster.kubecarrier.io/team-a created

$ kubectl get servicecluster -n team-a
NAME        STATUS   DISPLAY NAME   KUBERNETES VERSION   AGE
eu-west-1   Ready    EU West 1      v1.17.0              8s

KubeCarrier will connect to the Cluster, do basic health checking and report the Kubernetes Version.