This document describes how to migrate an operator project built using Operator SDK v0.0.x
to the project structure required by v0.1.0
.
The recommended way to migrate your project is to initialize a new v0.1.0
project, then copy your code into the new project and modify as described below.
This guide goes over migrating the memcached-operator, an example project from the user guide, to illustrate migration steps. See the v0.0.7 memcached-operator and v0.1.0 memcached-operator project structures for pre- and post-migration examples, respectively.
Rename your v0.0.x
project and create a new v0.1.0
project in its place.
# Ensure SDK version is v0.1.0
$ operator-sdk --version
operator-sdk version 0.1.0
# Create new project
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/example-inc/
$ mv memcached-operator old-memcached-operator
$ operator-sdk new memcached-operator --skip-git-init
$ ls
memcached-operator old-memcached-operator
# Copy over .git from old project
$ cp -rf old-memcached-operator/.git memcached-operator/.git
Create the api for your custom resource (CR) in the new project with operator-sdk add api --api-version=<apiversion> --kind=<kind>
$ cd memcached-operator
$ operator-sdk add api --api-version=cache.example.com/v1alpha1 --kind=Memcached
$ tree pkg/apis
pkg/apis/
├── addtoscheme_cache_v1alpha1.go
├── apis.go
└── cache
└── v1alpha1
├── doc.go
├── memcached_types.go
├── register.go
└── zz_generated.deepcopy.go
Repeat the above command for as many custom types as you had defined in your old project. Each type will be defined in the file pkg/apis/<group>/<version>/<kind>_types.go
.
Copy the Spec
and Status
contents of the pkg/apis/<group>/<version>/types.go
file from the old project to the new project's pkg/apis/<group>/<version>/<kind>_types.go
file.
Note: Each <kind>_types.go
file has an init()
function. Be sure not to remove that since that registers the type with the Manager's scheme.
func init() {
SchemeBuilder.Register(&Memcached{}, &MemcachedList{})
}
In a v0.0.x
project you would define what resource to watch in cmd/<operator-name>/main.go
sdk.Watch("cache.example.com/v1alpha1", "Memcached", "default", time.Duration(5)*time.Second)
For a v0.1.0
project you define a Controller to watch resources.
Add a controller to watch your CR type with operator-sdk add controller --api-version=<apiversion> --kind=<kind>
.
$ operator-sdk add controller --api-version=cache.example.com/v1alpha1 --kind=Memcached
$ tree pkg/controller
pkg/controller/
├── add_memcached.go
├── controller.go
└── memcached
└── memcached_controller.go
Inspect the add()
function in your pkg/controller/<kind>/<kind>_controller.go
file:
import (
cachev1alpha1 "github.com/example-inc/memcached-operator/pkg/apis/cache/v1alpha1"
...
)
func add(mgr manager.Manager, r reconcile.Reconciler) error {
c, err := controller.New("memcached-controller", mgr, controller.Options{Reconciler: r})
// Watch for changes to the primary resource Memcached
err = c.Watch(&source.Kind{Type: &cachev1alpha1.Memcached{}}, &handler.EnqueueRequestForObject{})
// Watch for changes to the secondary resource Pods and enqueue reconcile requests for the owner Memcached
err = c.Watch(&source.Kind{Type: &corev1.Pod{}}, &handler.EnqueueRequestForOwner{
IsController: true,
OwnerType: &cachev1alpha1.Memcached{},
})
}
Remove the second Watch()
or modify it to watch a secondary resource type that is owned by your CR.
Watching multiple resources lets you trigger the reconcile loop for multiple resources relevant to your application. See the watching and eventhandling doc and the Kubernetes controller conventions doc for more details.
If your operator is watching more than 1 CR type then you can do one of the following depending on your application:
- If the CR is owned by your primary CR then watch it as a secondary resource in the same controller to trigger the reconcile loop for the primary resource.
// Watch for changes to the primary resource Memcached err = c.Watch(&source.Kind{Type: &cachev1alpha1.Memcached{}}, &handler.EnqueueRequestForObject{}) // Watch for changes to the secondary resource AppService and enqueue reconcile requests for the owner Memcached err = c.Watch(&source.Kind{Type: &appv1alpha1.AppService{}}, &handler.EnqueueRequestForOwner{ IsController: true, OwnerType: &cachev1alpha1.Memcached{}, })
- Add a new controller to watch and reconcile the CR independently of the other CR.
$ operator-sdk add controller --api-version=app.example.com/v1alpha1 --kind=AppService
// Watch for changes to the primary resource AppService err = c.Watch(&source.Kind{Type: &appv1alpha1.AppService{}}, &handler.EnqueueRequestForObject{})
In a v0.1.0
project the reconcile code is defined in the Reconcile()
method of a controller's Reconciler. This is similar to the Handle()
function in the older project. Note the difference in the arguments and return values:
- Reconcile
func (r *ReconcileMemcached) Reconcile(request reconcile.Request) (reconcile.Result, error)
- Handle
func (h *Handler) Handle(ctx context.Context, event sdk.Event) error
Instead of receiving an sdk.Event
(with the object), the Reconcile()
function receives a Request (Name/Namespace key) to lookup the object.
If the Reconcile()
function returns an error, the controller will requeue and retry the Request
. If no error is returned, then depending on the Result the controller will either not retry the Request
, immediately retry, or retry after a specified duration.
Copy the code from the old project's Handle()
function over the existing code in your controller's Reconcile()
function.
Be sure to keep the initial section in the Reconcile()
code that looks up the object for the Request
and checks to see if it's deleted.
import (
apierrors "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
cachev1alpha1 "github.com/example-inc/memcached-operator/pkg/apis/cache/v1alpha1"
...
)
func (r *ReconcileMemcached) Reconcile(request reconcile.Request) (reconcile.Result, error) {
// Fetch the Memcached instance
instance := &cachev1alpha1.Memcached{}
err := r.client.Get(context.TODO()
request.NamespacedName, instance)
if err != nil {
if apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
// Request object not found, could have been deleted after reconcile request.
// Owned objects are automatically garbage collected.
// Return and don't requeue
return reconcile.Result{}, nil
}
// Error reading the object - requeue the request.
return reconcile.Result{}, err
}
// Rest of your reconcile code goes here.
...
}
Change the return values in your reconcile code:
- Replace
return err
withreturn reconcile.Result{}, err
- Replace
return nil
withreturn reconcile.Result{}, nil
In order to periodically reconcile a CR in your controller you can set the RequeueAfter field for reconcile.Result.
This will cause the controller to requeue the Request
and trigger the reconcile after the desired duration. Note that the default value of 0 means no requeue.
reconcilePeriod := 30 * time.Second
reconcileResult := reconcile.Result{RequeueAfter: reconcilePeriod}
...
// Update the status
err := r.client.Update(context.TODO(), memcached)
if err != nil {
log.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to update memcached status: %v", err))
return reconcileResult, err
}
return reconcileResult, nil
Replace the calls to the SDK client(Create, Update, Delete, Get, List) with the reconciler's client.
See the examples below and the controller-runtime client API doc for more details.
// Create
dep := &appsv1.Deployment{...}
// v0.0.1
err := sdk.Create(dep)
// v0.1.0
err := r.client.Create(context.TODO(), dep)
// Update
// v0.1.0
err := sdk.Update(dep)
// v0.1.0
err := r.client.Update(context.TODO(), dep)
// Delete
err := sdk.Delete(dep)
// v0.1.0
err := r.client.Delete(context.TODO(), dep)
// List
podList := &corev1.PodList{}
labelSelector := labels.SelectorFromSet(labelsForMemcached(memcached.Name))
listOps := &metav1.ListOptions{LabelSelector: labelSelector}
err := sdk.List(memcached.Namespace, podList, sdk.WithListOptions(listOps))
// v0.1.0
listOps := &client.ListOptions{Namespace: memcached.Namespace, LabelSelector: labelSelector}
err := r.client.List(context.TODO(), listOps, podList)
// Get
dep := &appsv1.Deployment{APIVersion: "apps/v1", Kind: "Deployment", Name: name, Namespace: namespace}
err := sdk.Get(dep)
// v0.1.0
dep := &appsv1.Deployment{}
err = r.client.Get(context.TODO(), types.NamespacedName{Name: name, Namespace: namespace}, dep)
// v0.1.0 with unstructured
dep := &unstructured.Unstructured{}
dep.SetGroupVersionKind(schema.GroupVersionKind{Group:"apps", Version: "v1", Kind:"Deployment"})
err = r.client.Get(context.TODO(), types.NamespacedName{Name: name, Namespace: namespace}, dep)
Lastly copy and initialize any other fields that you may have had in your Handler
struct into the Reconcile<Kind>
struct:
// newReconciler returns a new reconcile.Reconciler
func newReconciler(mgr manager.Manager) reconcile.Reconciler {
return &ReconcileMemcached{client: mgr.GetClient(), scheme: mgr.GetScheme(), foo: "bar"}
}
// ReconcileMemcached reconciles a Memcached object
type ReconcileMemcached struct {
client client.Client
scheme *runtime.Scheme
// Other fields
foo string
}
The main function for a v0.1.0
operator in cmd/manager/main.go
sets up the Manager which registers the custom resources and starts all the controllers.
There is no need to migrate the SDK functions sdk.Watch()
,sdk.Handle()
, and sdk.Run()
from the old main.go
since that logic is now defined in a controller.
However if there are any operator specific flags or settings defined in the old main file copy those over.
If you have any 3rd party resource types registered with the SDK's scheme, then register those with the Manager's scheme in the new project. See how to register 3rd party resources.
operator-sdk
now expects cmd/manager/main.go
to be present in Go operator projects. Go project-specific commands, ex. add [api, controller]
, will error if main.go
is not found in its expected path.
If there are any user defined pkgs, scripts, and docs in the older project, copy these files into the new project.
For any updates made to the following manifests in the old project, copy over the changes to their corresponding files in the new project. Be careful not to directly overwrite the files but inspect and make any changes necessary.
tmp/build/Dockerfile
tobuild/Dockerfile
- There is no tmp directory in the new project layout
- RBAC rules updates from
deploy/rbac.yaml
todeploy/role.yaml
anddeploy/role_binding.yaml
deploy/cr.yaml
todeploy/crds/<group>_<version>_<kind>_cr.yaml
deploy/crd.yaml
todeploy/crds/<group>_<version>_<kind>_crd.yaml
For any user defined dependencies added to the old project's Gopkg.toml, copy and append them to the new project's Gopkg.toml.
Run dep ensure
to update the vendor in the new project.
At this point you should be able to build and run your operator to verify that it works. See the user-guide on how to build and run your operator.