Partition workload is a kubernetes custom resource definition that supports automatic management of pods, partitioned update/rollback, and revision history.
Partition is similar to a k8s replicaset in that you can specify replicas and templates and the partition workload automatically manages the pods to reach the desired state. It supports partitioned update and rollback where you can specify the number of pods that should be at the updateRevision. The rest of the pods will stay or be rolled back to currentRevision. It also supports revision history where it stores the recent revisions and reuse them.
- go version v1.24.6+
- docker version 17.03+.
- kubectl version v1.11.3+.
- Access to a Kubernetes v1.11.3+ cluster.
Build and push your image to the location specified by IMG:
make docker-build docker-push IMG=<some-registry>/k8s-partition-workload:tagNOTE: This image ought to be published in the personal registry you specified. And it is required to have access to pull the image from the working environment. Make sure you have the proper permission to the registry if the above commands don’t work.
Install the CRDs into the cluster:
make installDeploy the Manager to the cluster with the image specified by IMG:
make deploy IMG=<some-registry>/k8s-partition-workload:tagNOTE: If you encounter RBAC errors, you may need to grant yourself cluster-admin privileges or be logged in as admin.
Create instances of your solution You can apply the samples (examples) from the config/sample:
kubectl apply -k config/samples/NOTE: Ensure that the samples has default values to test it out.
Delete the instances (CRs) from the cluster:
kubectl delete -k config/samples/Delete the APIs(CRDs) from the cluster:
make uninstallUnDeploy the controller from the cluster:
make undeployFollowing the options to release and provide this solution to the users.
- Build the installer for the image built and published in the registry:
make build-installer IMG=<some-registry>/k8s-partition-workload:tagNOTE: The makefile target mentioned above generates an 'install.yaml' file in the dist directory. This file contains all the resources built with Kustomize, which are necessary to install this project without its dependencies.
- Using the installer
Users can just run 'kubectl apply -f ' to install the project, i.e.:
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<org>/k8s-partition-workload/<tag or branch>/dist/install.yaml- Build the chart using the optional helm plugin
kubebuilder edit --plugins=helm/v2-alpha- See that a chart was generated under 'dist/chart', and users can obtain this solution from there.
NOTE: If you change the project, you need to update the Helm Chart using the same command above to sync the latest changes. Furthermore, if you create webhooks, you need to use the above command with the '--force' flag and manually ensure that any custom configuration previously added to 'dist/chart/values.yaml' or 'dist/chart/manager/manager.yaml' is manually re-applied afterwards.
NOTE: Run make help for more information on all potential make targets
More information can be found via the Kubebuilder Documentation
This project references code from OpenKruise, which is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. OpenKruise is a CNCF incubating project for automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes.
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