multicluster-gateway-controller
Description:
The multi-cluster gateway controller, leverages the gateway API standard and Open Cluster Management to provide multi-cluster connectivity and global load balancing
Key Features:
- Central Gateway Definition that can then be distributed to multiple clusters
- Automatic TLS and cert distribution for HTTPS based listeners
- DNSPolicy to decide how North-South based traffic should be balanced and reach the gateways
- Health checks to detect and take remedial action against unhealthy endpoints
- Cloud DNS provider integrations (AWS route 53) with new ones being added (google DNS)
When deploying the multicluster gateway controller using the make targets, the following will be created:
- Kind cluster(s)
- Gateway API CRDs in the control plane cluster
- Ingress controller
- Cert manager
- ArgoCD instance
- K8s Dashboard
- LetsEncrypt certs
Prerequisites:
- AWS or GCP
- Various dependencies installed into $(pwd)/bin e.g. kind, yq etc.
- openssl>=3
- On macOS a later version is available with
brew install openssl
. You'll need to update your PATH as macOS provides an older version via libressl as well
- On Fedora use
dnf install openssl
- go >= 1.21
1. Running the controller in the cluster:
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Set up your DNS Provider by following these steps
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Setup your local environment
make local-setup MGC_WORKLOAD_CLUSTERS_COUNT=<NUMBER_WORKLOAD_CLUSTER>
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Build the controller image and load it into the control plane
kubectl config use-context kind-mgc-control-plane
make kind-load-gateway-controller
kubectl config use-context kind-mgc-control-plane
make kind-load-policy-controller
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Deploy the controller(s) to the control plane cluster
make deploy-policy-controller
make deploy-gateway-controller
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(Optional) View the logs of the deployed controller
kubectl logs -f $(kubectl get pods -n multi-cluster-gateways | grep "mgc-" | awk '{print $1}') -n multi-cluster-gateways
2. Running the controller locally:
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Set up your DNS Provider by following these steps
-
Setup your local environment
make local-setup MGC_WORKLOAD_CLUSTERS_COUNT=<NUMBER_WORKLOAD_CLUSTER>
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Run the controller locally:
kubectl config use-context kind-mgc-control-plane
make build-gateway-controller install run-gateway-controller
kubectl config use-context kind-mgc-control-plane
make build-policy-controller install run-policy-controller
3. Running the agent in the cluster:
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Build the agent image and load it into the workload cluster
kubectl config use-context kind-mgc-workload-1
make kind-load-agent
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Deploy the agent to the workload cluster
make deploy-agent
4. Running the agent locally
- Target the workload cluster you wish to run on:
export KUBECONFIG=./tmp/kubeconfigs/mgc-workload-1.kubeconfig
- Run the agent locally:
make build-agent run-agent
5. Clean up local environment
In any terminal window target control plane cluster by:
kubectl config use-context kind-mgc-control-plane
If you want to wipe everything clean consider using:
make local-cleanup # Remove kind clusters created locally and cleanup any generated local files.
If the intention is to cleanup kind cluster and prepare them for re-installation consider using:
make local-cleanup-mgc MGC_WORKLOAD_CLUSTERS_COUNT=<NUMBER_WORKLOAD_CLUSTER> # prepares clusters for make local-setup-mgc
License
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