Feature Request: Support Kubernetes

[ngryman]

Hey there, first of all, great work with Gitpod 👏

I would be very interested in migrating our local environment to Gitpod. However, our product needs several containers to run in development mode.

So I would have 2 questions:

1. Do you plan to support k8s or any orchestration tool (ie. Docker Compose) in the future?
2. Meanwhile, what do you think about using DinD and Kubernetes IN Docker: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind? I didn't dive in it yet, but at first glance, it would be possible to run a cluster in a Docker image.

[JesterOrNot]

Hello, @ngryman, and welcome to the Gitpod community! 🎉 @svenefftinge Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we have plans to support it in the future. However, right now it would require root or root-like permissions, which as of now we don't allow, please, see the following issues for information: #52 #39

[svenefftinge]

Yes, we are working towards allowing DinD. For the time being here's how we develop kubernetes applications (i.e. Gitpod itself) using Gitpod.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/developing-kubernetes-applications-with-joy/

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[jankeromnes]

FYI, we're doing a YouTube livestream about root/docker in Gitpod workspaces in about ~2.5 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4I2TVAnBuw

[davemecha]

Hi everybody,

I'm searching for a way for knative development & testing with GitPod in the new Docker preview but was not able to get a local kubernetes environment running. I checked out minikube, k3s and kind but I was not able to get any of them running.

Yes, we are working towards allowing DinD. For the time being here's how we develop kubernetes applications (i.e. Gitpod itself) using Gitpod.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/developing-kubernetes-applications-with-joy/

The https://www.telepresence.io/ option seems not to work with knative since the networking seems to conflict (there's an open ticket in the telepresence repo). Beside this, it's not always a good option because one has to run a Kubernetes cluster somewhere else, what may be cost intensive.

demo

I created a demo repo so anybody could try the issues for themselves. https://github.com/davemecha/knative-minikube-test - Just fire up a GitPod from there and execute the stuff as mentioned in the readme.

I also watched the youtube session about Docker in GitPod but this was pretty heavy stuff for me. When I understood this correctly than there might be a similar solution for running Kubernetes inside cloud GitPod as was applied to run Docker alone. At least for the cgroup issues with minikube with Docker driver.

logs

I posted my test-results (with some logs) in the GitPod community but maybe this github issue is a more appropriate place for discussing this case.

Thanks for help and comments. 🙏

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[Baneeishaque]

Please don't stale.

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[hferentschik]

Is there any progress on this?

[davemecha]

There is a new issue about this. #4889

[loujaybee]

Hey folks, just coming back to this for others who are googling, we recently published a new docs page:

https://www.gitpod.io/docs/integrations/kubernetes

This page covers common use cases and ways to develop Kubernetes applications in Gitpod:

• Using Docker in Gitpod
• Using Docker Compose in Gitpod
• Using a Kubernetes Network Proxy in Gitpod (e.g. Telepresence)
• Running Kubernetes clusters in Gitpod (e.g. MiniKube)
• Connecting to a remote Kubernetes cluster inside Gitpod

Please do check it out, and let us know if you have any questions 🙏