Apache Ignite on your Kubernetes Cluster Part 4: Deployment explained

Emmanouil GkatziourasApril 17th, 2020Last Updated: April 14th, 2020

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Previously we saw the Ignite configuration that comes with the Kubernetes installation.
The default configuration does not have persistence enabled so we won’t focus on any storage classes provided by the helm chart.

The default installation uses a stateful set. You can find more information on a stateful set on the Kubernetes documentation.

> kubectl get statefulset ignite-cache -o yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2020-04-09T12:29:04Z
  generation: 1
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/instance: ignite-cache
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
    app.kubernetes.io/name: ignite
    helm.sh/chart: ignite-1.0.1
  name: ignite-cache
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "281390"
  selfLink: /apis/apps/v1/namespaces/default/statefulsets/ignite-cache
  uid: fcaa7bef-84cd-4e7c-aa33-a4312a1d47a9
spec:
  podManagementPolicy: OrderedReady
  replicas: 2
  revisionHistoryLimit: 10
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: ignite-cache
  serviceName: ignite-cache
  template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      labels:
        app: ignite-cache
    spec:
      containers:
      - env:
        - name: IGNITE_QUIET
          value: "false"
        - name: JVM_OPTS
          value: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
        - name: OPTION_LIBS
          value: ignite-kubernetes,ignite-rest-http
        image: apacheignite/ignite:2.7.6
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        name: ignite
        ports:
        - containerPort: 11211
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 47100
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 47500
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 49112
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 10800
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 8080
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 10900
          protocol: TCP
        resources: {}
        terminationMessagePath: /dev/termination-log
        terminationMessagePolicy: File
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /opt/ignite/apache-ignite/config
          name: config-volume
      dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
      restartPolicy: Always
      schedulerName: default-scheduler
      securityContext: {}
      serviceAccount: ignite-cache
      serviceAccountName: ignite-cache
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
      volumes:
      - configMap:
          defaultMode: 420
          items:
          - key: ignite-config.xml
            path: default-config.xml
          name: ignite-cache-configmap
        name: config-volume
  updateStrategy:
    rollingUpdate:
      partition: 0
    type: RollingUpdate
status:
  replicas: 0

As you can see the Ingite configuration has been mounted through the configmap. Also you can see that this pod will use a specific service account.
Through the environment variables certain libraries are enabled which provide more features on the Ignite cluster. Also the ports needed for the communication and various protocols are being specified.

The last step is the service. All the ignite nodes shall be load balancer behind the Kubernetes service.

> kubectl get svc ignite-cache -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2020-04-09T12:29:04Z
  labels:
    app: ignite-cache
  name: ignite-cache
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "281389"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/services/ignite-cache
  uid: 5be68e28-a57c-4cb5-b610-b708bff80da7
spec:
  clusterIP: None
  ports:
  - name: jdbc
    port: 11211
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 11211
  - name: spi-communication
    port: 47100
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 47100
  - name: spi-discovery
    port: 47500
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 47500
  - name: jmx
    port: 49112
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 49112
  - name: sql
    port: 10800
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 10800
  - name: rest
    port: 8080
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8080
  - name: thin-clients
    port: 10900
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 10900
  selector:
    app: ignite-cache
  sessionAffinity: None
  type: ClusterIP
status:
  loadBalancer: {}

Whether you add a new node or you add an ignite client node your ignite cluster shall be reached through this Kubernetes service. Apart from, that based on the Kubernetes services you can make this cache public or internal.

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 4: Deployment explained

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