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Kubernetes on Raspberry PI

The kube cluster

Current todos / problems

  • Start first service
  • Start ping-ping game
  • The cluster do not survive a reboot :(

Hardware

  • 4 x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B link
  • 3 x Intermediate Stacking Plate link
  • 1 x Raspberry Pi case link
  • 1 x LAN cable 0,25m [5-pack] link
  • 4 x SD card link
  • 1 x PowerPort 6 link
  • 1 x Micro USB cable [4-pack] link
  • 1 x USB Powered Switch link

Preparations

Install OS

I used HypriotOS in version 1.0.1. For an easy installation you can use flash. Just insert your SD card and run the following command from your command line.

$ flash --hostname moby-dock-1 https://github.com/hypriot/image-builder-rpi/releases/download/v1.0.1/hypriotos-rpi-v1.0.1.img.zip

Repeat this for your other RPIs. Do not forget to increase the hostname.

In addtion I configured my DHCP server, that the RPIs get the following IPs:

  • 192.168.0.200
  • 192.168.0.201
  • 192.168.0.202
  • 192.168.0.203

To connect to your RPIs use pirate as username and hypriot as password.

$ ssh pirate@192.168.0.200

Create cluster

Generell setup for all nodes (master and worker)

To create the kubernetes cluster, I use kubernetes-on-arm. In the first setup I used kube-deploy, but kubernetes-on-arm is more comfortable. It installs kbuectl and offers some kubernetes addons. Btw, kubernetes-on-arm uses kube-deploy to create the cluster.

First, connect to your first RPI over ssh (use priate as username and hypriot as password)

$ ssh pirate@192.168.0.200

When you are connected, download docker-multinode.deb in version 0.8.0.

$ wget https://github.com/luxas/kubernetes-on-arm/releases/download/v0.8.0/docker-multinode.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i docker-multinode.deb
$ sudo kube-config install

kube-config install will ask you some questions. I used the following setup (replace moby-dock-1 to the corresponding host):

Which board is this running on? Options: [bananapro, cubietruck, generic, odroid-c2, parallella, pine64, rpi-2, rpi-3, rpi]. rpi-3
Which OS do you have? Options: [archlinux, debian, hypriotos]. hypriotos
What hostname do you want? Defaults to kubepi. moby-dock-1
Which timezone should be set? Defaults to Europe/Helsinki. Europe/Berlin
Which storage driver do you want? Defaults to overlay.
Do you want to create an 1GB swapfile (required for compiling)? N is default [y/N] n
Do you want to reboot now? A reboot is required for Docker to function. Y is default. [Y/n] n

Master

Now install the kubernetes master node.

sudo kube-config enable-master

After this, the script will start some docker container. When the script is finished, you will see something like this:

+++ [0905 21:22:43] Launching Kubernetes master components...
d06915c03700ef43c3629a00ca772d5e5278d4fc3c91a428135fc3912058304e
+++ [0905 21:22:44] Done. It may take about a minute before apiserver is up.

Now the main kubernetes container will start some pods. This can take a while (not only a minute). When this is finished, kubectl get nodes should return the node:

$ kubectl get nodes
NAME            STATUS    AGE
192.168.0.200   Ready     3m

We also have to wait for specific pods, which will be started. This can take awhile, so be patient. Your master is fully ready when the following pods are running:

$ kubectl get pods --namespace=kube-system
NAME                                READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
k8s-master-192.168.0.200            4/4       Running   4          5m
k8s-proxy-192.168.0.200             1/1       Running   0          4m
kube-addon-manager-192.168.0.200    2/2       Running   0          2m
kube-dns-v17.1-s3iu2                3/3       Running   0          1m
kubernetes-dashboard-v1.1.1-km9od   1/1       Running   0          1m

The dashboard will be available over http://192.168.0.200:8080/ui/.

Worker

Now it's time to start the worker nodes. For this we need to connect to our RPIs 2-4. (repeat the following steps for the node 192.168.0.201, 192.168.0.202, 192.168.0.203)

$ ssh pirate@192.168.0.201

On the worker nodes we need to run kube-config enable-worker with the IP from the master node

$ sudo kube-config enable-worker 192.168.0.200

After this, kubectl get nodes on our master node will show all three worker nodes

# On our master node 192.168.0.200
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME            STATUS    AGE
192.168.0.200   Ready     12m
192.168.0.201   Ready     8m
192.168.0.202   Ready     8m
192.168.0.203   Ready     8m

First interaction

For the following step, I used a simple hello world http server: rpi-hello-kube

Watch the running pods

The first image shows, that there is no pod running in the default namespace. The seconds shows the running pods in the namespace kube-system.

No running pods in default namespace Running kube-system pods

Create the first pod:

$ kubectl run hello-kube --image=furikuri/rpi-hello-kube:v1 --expose --port=3000 --labels="name=hello-kube"
service "hello-kube" created
deployment "hello-kube" created

Check deployment

$ kubectl get deployments
NAME         DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
hello-kube   1         1         1            0           21s

Check pods

Pod is starting...

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                          READY     STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   0/1       ContainerCreating   0          35s

Starting pod

Pod is ready :)

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                          READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   1/1       Running   0          2m

Running pod

Check service / access pod (internal)

$ kubectl get services hello-kube
NAME         CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
hello-kube   10.0.0.4     <none>        3000/TCP   3m
$ curl http://10.0.0.4:3000
Hello World!

Check logs

$ kubectl logs hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im
Received request for URL: /

Check events

$ kubectl get events
LASTSEEN   FIRSTSEEN   COUNT     NAME                          KIND         SUBOBJECT                     TYPE      REASON                    SOURCE                     MESSAGE
22m        22m         1         192.168.0.200                 Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kubelet 192.168.0.200}    Starting kubelet.
21m        22m         29        192.168.0.200                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientDisk     {kubelet 192.168.0.200}    Node 192.168.0.200 status is now: NodeHasSufficientDisk
21m        22m         29        192.168.0.200                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientMemory   {kubelet 192.168.0.200}    Node 192.168.0.200 status is now: NodeHasSufficientMemory
21m        21m         1         192.168.0.200                 Node                                       Normal    RegisteredNode            {controllermanager }       Node 192.168.0.200 event: Registered Node 192.168.0.200 in NodeController
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.201                 Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    Starting kubelet.
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.201                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientDisk     {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    Node 192.168.0.201 status is now: NodeHasSufficientDisk
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.201                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientMemory   {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    Node 192.168.0.201 status is now: NodeHasSufficientMemory
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.201                 Node                                       Normal    RegisteredNode            {controllermanager }       Node 192.168.0.201 event: Registered Node 192.168.0.201 in NodeController
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.201                 Node                                       Normal    NodeReady                 {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    Node 192.168.0.201 status is now: NodeReady
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.202                 Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kubelet 192.168.0.202}    Starting kubelet.
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.202                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientDisk     {kubelet 192.168.0.202}    Node 192.168.0.202 status is now: NodeHasSufficientDisk
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.202                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientMemory   {kubelet 192.168.0.202}    Node 192.168.0.202 status is now: NodeHasSufficientMemory
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.202                 Node                                       Normal    RegisteredNode            {controllermanager }       Node 192.168.0.202 event: Registered Node 192.168.0.202 in NodeController
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.202                 Node                                       Normal    NodeReady                 {kubelet 192.168.0.202}    Node 192.168.0.202 status is now: NodeReady
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.203                 Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kubelet 192.168.0.203}    Starting kubelet.
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.203                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientDisk     {kubelet 192.168.0.203}    Node 192.168.0.203 status is now: NodeHasSufficientDisk
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.203                 Node                                       Normal    NodeHasSufficientMemory   {kubelet 192.168.0.203}    Node 192.168.0.203 status is now: NodeHasSufficientMemory
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.203                 Node                                       Normal    RegisteredNode            {controllermanager }       Node 192.168.0.203 event: Registered Node 192.168.0.203 in NodeController
7m         7m          1         192.168.0.203                 Node                                       Normal    NodeReady                 {kubelet 192.168.0.203}    Node 192.168.0.203 status is now: NodeReady
4m         4m          1         hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   Pod                                        Normal    Scheduled                 {default-scheduler }       Successfully assigned hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im to 192.168.0.201
4m         4m          1         hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   Pod          spec.containers{hello-kube}   Normal    Pulling                   {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    pulling image "furikuri/rpi-hello-kube:v1"
2m         2m          1         hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   Pod          spec.containers{hello-kube}   Normal    Pulled                    {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    Successfully pulled image "furikuri/rpi-hello-kube:v1"
2m         2m          1         hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   Pod          spec.containers{hello-kube}   Normal    Created                   {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    Created container with docker id 9eab2e9b4bc4
2m         2m          1         hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   Pod          spec.containers{hello-kube}   Normal    Started                   {kubelet 192.168.0.201}    Started container with docker id 9eab2e9b4bc4
4m         4m          1         hello-kube-1386070109         ReplicaSet                                 Normal    SuccessfulCreate          {replicaset-controller }   Created pod: hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im
4m         4m          1         hello-kube                    Deployment                                 Normal    ScalingReplicaSet         {deployment-controller }   Scaled up replica set hello-kube-1386070109 to 1
22m        22m         1         moby-dock-1                   Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kube-proxy moby-dock-1}   Starting kube-proxy.
7m         7m          1         moby-dock-2                   Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kube-proxy moby-dock-2}   Starting kube-proxy.
7m         7m          1         moby-dock-3                   Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kube-proxy moby-dock-3}   Starting kube-proxy.
7m         7m          1         moby-dock-4                   Node                                       Normal    Starting                  {kube-proxy moby-dock-4}   Starting kube-proxy.

Check cluster info

$ kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at http://localhost:8080
KubeDNS is running at http://localhost:8080/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns
kubernetes-dashboard is running at http://localhost:8080/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/kubernetes-dashboard

To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.

Check kubectl configuration

$ kubectl config view
apiVersion: v1
clusters: []
contexts: []
current-context: ""
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users: []

Scale pod

$ kubectl scale deployment hello-kube --replicas=3
deployment "hello-kube" scaled

Scale service

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                          READY     STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
hello-kube-1386070109-385j6   0/1       ContainerCreating   0          41s
hello-kube-1386070109-xi6im   1/1       Running             0          7m
hello-kube-1386070109-xwr66   0/1       ContainerCreating   0          41s

Access from outside

In generell all service are available over the master. The master proxies the service, so that they are accessible from outside.

# theo at toad in ~/GitProjects/rpi-kubernetes on git:master ● [16:08:14]
→ curl -L http://192.168.0.200:8080/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/default/services/hello-kube
Hello World!

Cleanup

$ kubectl delete service,deployment hello-kube
service "hello-kube" deleted
deployment "hello-kube" deleted

The ping pong game

For this I created a simple application written in Go. This application is a simplified version of ping pong. We will start three services. Two services will be the client named ping and pong. Both clients can be request over HTTP and they will return HIT or MISS, according as whether he hits the ball or not. The ping-pong-table will request both clients until one of them returns MISS.

Start pods

For our ping pong game, we need to start 3 services, ping, pong and ping-pong-table. For all services, the image furikuri/rpi-ping-pong:latest can be used.

# ping client
$ kubectl run ping --expose --port=3000 --labels="name=ping" --image=furikuri/rpi-ping-pong:latest -- --hit-chance 85

# pong client
$ kubectl run pong --expose --port=3000 --labels="name=pong" --image=furikuri/rpi-ping-pong:latest -- --hit-chance 85

# ping pong server
$ kubectl run ping-pong-table --expose --port=3000 --labels="name=ping-pong-table" --image=furikuri/rpi-ping-pong:latest -- --mode server

Check with get pods if all needed pods are up.

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                              READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
ping-1834401500-0g10a             1/1       Running   0          9s
ping-pong-table-943113987-vxmtd   1/1       Running   0          8s
pong-2947596008-yocod             1/1       Running   0          9s

Ping pong

Usage

For internal usage, you can use the service IP from our ping-pong-table.

$ kubectl get service ping-pong-table
NAME               CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
ping-pong-table    10.0.0.179   <none>        3000/TCP   5m

$ curl http://10.0.0.179:3000
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> MISS
The winner is PONG

For external use, just use the master proxy:

# theo at toad in ~/GitProjects/rpi-kubernetes on git:master ✖︎ [18:02:02]
→ curl http://192.168.0.200:8080/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/default/services/ping-pong-table/
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> HIT
PING --> HIT
PONG --> MISS
The winner is PING

View logs

$ kubectl logs ping-pong-table-943113987-vxmtd
2016/09/06 16:02:03 Start game
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PING --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PONG --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PING --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PONG --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PING --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PONG --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PING --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PONG --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PING --> HIT
2016/09/06 16:02:03 PONG --> MISS
2016/09/06 16:02:03 The winner is PING
2016/09/06 16:02:03 End game

Troubleshooting

At the moment the cluster will not work, if the master node will be rebooted. I found no clean way to get the master node working after a reboot. The only way, which is working for me, is to reinitiate the master node. I also have to clean /var/lib/kubelet otherwise the dashboard pod will not start again. This reinitiate only has to be done on the master node. Just run sudo kube-config disable and sudo kube-config enable-master and hope everything will work after this ;-)

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