OpenG2P K8s Cluster Setup

Introduction

OpenG2P modules and components are recommended to be run on Kubernetes (K8s), because of ease-of-use, management, and security features that K8s provides.

This document provides instructions to set up a K8s Cluster on which OpenG2P Modules and other components can be installed.

Prerequisites

Hardware Requirements
The following tools are installed on all the nodes and the client machine:
- wget , curl , kubectl , istioctl , helm , jq

Firewall Requirements

Set up firewall rules on each node according to the following table. The exact method to set up the firewall rules will vary from cloud to cloud and on-prem. (For example on AWS, EC2 security groups can be used. For on-prem cluster, ufw can be used. Etc.)

Protocol

Port

Should be accessible by only

Description

TCP

SSH

TCP

Postgres ports

TCP

443

Postgres ports

TCP

5432

Postgres port

TCP

9345

RKE2 agent nodes

Kubernetes API

TCP

6443

RKE2 agent nodes

Kubernetes API

UDP

8472

RKE2 server and agent nodes

Required only for Flannel VXLAN

TCP

10250

RKE2 server and agent nodes

kubelet

TCP

2379

RKE2 server nodes

etcd client port

TCP

2380

RKE2 server nodes

etcd peer port

TCP

30000:32767

RKE2 server and agent nodes

NodePort port range

For example, this is how you can use ufw to set up the firewall on each cluster node.
- SSH into each node, and change to superuser
- Run the following command for each rule in the above table
  ufw allow from <from-ip-range-allowed> to any port <port/range> proto <tcp/udp>
- Example:
  ufw allow from any to any port 22 proto tcp ufw allow from 10.3.4.0/24 to any port 9345 proto tcp
- Enable ufw:
  ufw enable ufw default deny incoming
Additional Reference: RKE2 Networking Requirements

Installation on AWS cloud

If you are using AWS only to get EC2 nodes, and you want to set up the K8s cluster manually, move to the On-premises Setup.

Installation on-premises (on-prem)

k8s cluster setup

The following section uses RKE2 to set up the K8s cluster.

Decide the number of K8s Control plane nodes(server nodes) and worker nodes(agent nodes)
- Choose an odd number of control-plane nodes. For example, for a 3-node k8s cluster, choose 1 control-plane node and 2 worker nodes. For a 7-node k8s cluster, choose 3 control-plane nodes and 4 worker nodes.
The following setup has to be done on each node on the cluster:
- SSH into the node
- Create the rke2 config directory:
  mkdir -p /etc/rancher/rke2
- Create a config.yaml file in the above directory, using one of the following config file templates:
  - For the first control-plane node, use rke2-server.conf.primary.template
  - For subsequent control-plane nodes, use rke2-server.conf.subsequent.template
  - For worker nodes, use rke2-agent.conf.template
- Edit the above config.yaml file with the appropriate names, IPs, and tokens
- Run this to download rke2.
  curl -sfL https://get.rke2.io | sh -
- Run this to start rke2:
  - On the control-plane node, run:
    systemctl enable rke2-server systemctl start rke2-server
  - On the worker node, run:
    systemctl enable rke2-agent systemctl start rke2-agent

To export KUBECONFIG, run (only on control-plane nodes):

echo -e 'export PATH="$PATH:/var/lib/rancher/rke2/bin"\nexport KUBECONFIG="/etc/rancher/rke2/rke2.yaml"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

```
kubectl get nodes
```

Additional Reference: RKE2 High Availability Installation

Cluster import into Rancher

This section assumes a Rancher server has already been set up and operational. Rancher Server Setup in case not already done.

Navigate to Cluster Management section in Rancher
Click on Import Existing cluster. And follow the steps to import the new OpenG2P cluster
After importing, download kubeconfig for the new cluster from rancher (top right on the main page), to access the cluster through kubectl from user's machine (client), without SSH

NFS provisioner setup

This section assumes an NFS Server has already been set up and operational for providing storage volumes to this K8s cluster, with requirements as given in NFS Server Setup. This section assumes an NFS server has already been set up and operational, which meets the requirements, as given in NFS Server Setup. This NFS server is used to provide persistent storage volumes to this K8s cluster.

Longhorn setup

This installation only applies if Longhorn is used as storage. This may be skipped if you are using NFS.

Longhorn Install as a Rancher App

Istio setup

The following setup can be done from the client machine. This install Istio Operator, Istio Service Mesh, Istio Ingressgateway components.
From kubernetes/istio directory, configure the istio-operator.yaml, and run;
```
istioctl operator init
kubectl apply -f istio-operator.yaml
```
- If an external Loadbalancer is being used, then use the istio-operator-external-lb.yaml file.
  kubectl apply -f istio-operator-external-lb.yaml
- Configure the operator.yaml with any further configuration

Gather Wildcard TLS certificate and key and run;

kubectl create secret tls tls-openg2p-ingress -n istio-system \
    --cert=<CERTIFICATE PATH> \
    --key=<KEY PATH>

Create istio gateway for all hosts using this command:
```
kubectl apply -f istio-gateway.yaml
```
- If using external loadbalancer/external TLS termination, use the istio-gateway-no-tls.yaml file
  kubectl apply -f istio-gateway-no-tls.yaml

Adding new nodes

From kubernetes/rke2 directory, take either the rke2-server.conf.subsequent.template or rke2-agent.conf.template based on whether the new node is control plane node or Worker node. Copy this file to /etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml in the new node.
Configure the the config.yaml with relevant values
Run this to download rke2.
```
curl -sfL https://get.rke2.io | sh -
```

Run this to start rke2 node:

systemctl enable rke2-server
systemctl start rke2-server

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