Apache Ignite on your Kubernetes Cluster Part 2: RBAC Explained

Emmanouil GkatziourasApril 16th, 2020Last Updated: April 13th, 2020

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You had a cache service running however all you did was installing a helm chart.
In this blog we shall evaluate what is installed and take notes for our futures helm charts.

The first step would be to view the helm chart.

> helm list
NAME            NAMESPACE   REVISION    UPDATED                                 STATUS      CHART           APP VERSION
ignite-cache    default     1           2020-03-07 22:23:49.918924 +0000 UTC    deployed    ignite-1.0.1    2.7.6

Now let’s download it

> helm fetch stable/ignite
> tar xvf ignite-1.0.1.tgz
> cd ignite/; ls -R
Chart.yaml  README.md   templates   values.yaml
 
./templates:
NOTES.txt           account-role.yaml       persistence-storage-class.yaml  service-account.yaml        svc.yaml
_helpers.tpl            configmap.yaml          role-binding.yaml       stateful-set.yaml       wal-storage-class.yaml

Reading through the template files is a bit challenging (well they are tempaltes :P) so we shall just check what was installed through our previous blog.

Let’s get started with the account-role. The cluster role that ignite shall use needs to be able to get/list/watch the pods and the endpoints. It makes sense since there is a need for discovery between the nodes.

> kubectl get ClusterRole ignite-cache -o yaml
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2020-03-07T22:23:50Z
  name: ignite-cache
  resourceVersion: "137525"
  selfLink: /apis/rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/clusterroles/ignite-cache
  uid: 0cad0689-2f94-4b74-87bc-b468e2ac78ae
rules:
- apiGroups:
  - ""
  resources:
  - pods
  - endpoints
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch

In order to use this role you need a service account. A service account is create with a token.

> kubectl get serviceaccount ignite-cache -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2020-03-07T22:23:50Z
  name: ignite-cache
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "137524"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/serviceaccounts/ignite-cache
  uid: 7aab67e5-04db-41a8-b73d-e76e34ca1d8e
secrets:
- name: ignite-cache-token-8rln4

Then we have the role binding. We have a new service account called the ignite-cache which has the role ignite-cache.

> kubectl get ClusterRoleBinding ignite-cache -o yaml
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2020-03-07T22:23:50Z
  name: ignite-cache
  resourceVersion: "137526"
  selfLink: /apis/rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/clusterrolebindings/ignite-cache
  uid: 1e180bd1-567f-4979-a278-ba2e420ed482
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: ignite-cache
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: ignite-cache
  namespace: default

It is important for you ignite workloads to use this service account and its token. By doing so they have the permissions to discover the other nodes in your cluster.

The next blog focuses on the configuration.

Published on Java Code Geeks with permission by Emmanouil Gkatziouras, partner at our JCG program. See the original article here: Apache Ignite on your Kubernetes Cluster Part 2: RBAC Explained

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