Experimental Native Ingress¶

Install Deis Workflow (With experimental native ingress support)¶

Now that Helm is installed and the repository has been added, install Workflow with a native ingress by running:

$ helm install deis/workflow --namespace deis --set global.experimental_native_ingress=true,controller.platform_domain=deis.com

Where controller.platform_domain is a required parameter that is traditionally not required for Workflow that is explained in the next section. In this example we are using deis.com for $hostname.

Helm will install a variety of Kubernetes resources in the deis namespace. Wait for the pods that Helm launched to be ready. Monitor their status by running:

$ kubectl --namespace=deis get pods

You should also notice that several Kubernetes ingresses has been installed on your cluster. You can view it by running:

$ kubectl get ingress --namespace deis

Depending on the order in which the Workflow components initialize, some pods may restart. This is common during the installation: if a component's dependencies are not yet available, that component will exit and Kubernetes will automatically restart it.

Here, it can be seen that the controller, builder and registry all took a few loops waiting for minio before they were able to start:

$ kubectl --namespace=deis get pods
NAME                          READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
deis-builder-hy3xv            1/1       Running   5          5m
deis-controller-g3cu8         1/1       Running   5          5m
deis-database-rad1o           1/1       Running   0          5m
deis-logger-fluentd-1v8uk     1/1       Running   0          5m
deis-logger-fluentd-esm60     1/1       Running   0          5m
deis-logger-sm8b3             1/1       Running   0          5m
deis-minio-4ww3t              1/1       Running   0          5m
deis-registry-asozo           1/1       Running   1          5m
deis-workflow-manager-68nu6   1/1       Running   0          5m

Install a Kubernetes Ingress Controller¶

Now that Workflow has been deployed with the global.experimental_native_ingress flag set to true, we will need a Kubernetes ingress controller in place to begin routing traffic.

Here is an example of how to use traefik as an ingress controller for Workflow. Of course, you are welcome to use any controller you wish.

$ helm install stable/traefik --name ingress --namespace kube-system

Configure DNS¶

The experimental ingress feature requires a user to set up a hostname, and assumes the deis.$host convention.

We need to point the *.$host record to the public IP address of your ingress controller. You can get the public IP using the following command. A wildcard entry is necessary here as apps will use the same rule after they are deployed.

$ kubectl get svc ingress-traefik --namespace kube-system
NAME              CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)                      AGE
ingress-traefik   10.0.25.3    138.91.243.152   80:31625/TCP,443:30871/TCP   33m

Additionally, we need to point the deis-builder.$host record to the public IP address of the Builder.

$ kubectl get svc deis-builder --namespace deis
NAME           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP     PORT(S)          AGE
deis-builder   10.0.165.140   40.86.182.187   2222:32488/TCP   33m

If we were using deis.com as a hostname, we would need to create the following A DNS records.

Name	Type	Value
*.deis.com	A	138.91.243.152
deis-builder.deis.com	A	40.86.182.187

Once all of the pods are in the READY state, and deis.$host resolves to the external IP found above, Workflow is up and running!

After installing Workflow, register a user and deploy an application.

Feedback¶

While this feature is experimental we welcome feedback on the issue. We would like to learn more about use cases, and user experience. Please open a new issue for feedback.