Knative Deployment Instructions

The following instructions are used to demonstrate Knative Serving and Eventing configurations.

Note: The following instructions require a K8s cluster with a LoadBalancer service which exposes a publicly routable IPv4 address. Consider using a cluster hosted on EKS, GKE, or AKS.

Update (Wed 25 Nov 2020) - instructions upgraded to work with the following versions:

Kubernetes: v1.18.10
Istio: v1.8.0
Knative: v0.19.0

STEP 1:

Install Knative

STEP 1.1:

Download and install istioctl command locally. This is used to now install Istio into the Kubernetes cluster:

curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | sh -
cd istio-1.8.0/bin
cp istioctl /usr/local/bin/

List the available Istio configuration profiles:

istioctl profile list

Install the default Istio configuration profile:

istioctl install --set profile=default -y

STEP 1.2:

The following commands can be used to troubleshoot Istio installations:

kubectl get ns
kubectl get pods -n istio-system
kubectl get pods -n istio-system --watch
kubectl describe pod -n istio-system
kubectl describe deploy -n istio-system

STEP 1.3:

Install Knative Serving

Serving CRDs
Serving Core Components
Knative Istio Controller needed for Serving

kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/download/v0.19.0/serving-crds.yaml
kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/download/v0.19.0/serving-core.yaml
kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/net-istio/releases/download/v0.19.0/release.yaml

STEP 1.4:

Check Knative Serving pods are running

kubectl get pods -n knative-serving

STEP 1.5:

Setup xip.io for custom domain - provides wildcarded dynamic dns

kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/download/v0.19.0/serving-default-domain.yaml

STEP 1.6:

Install Eventing

Eventing CRDs
Eventing Core
Default InMemory Channel (not suitable for production)
Default Broker

kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/eventing/releases/download/v0.19.0/eventing-crds.yaml
kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/eventing/releases/download/v0.19.0/eventing-core.yaml
kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/eventing/releases/download/v0.19.0/in-memory-channel.yaml
kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/knative/eventing/releases/download/v0.19.0/mt-channel-broker.yaml

STEP 1.7:

Check Eventing pods are running

kubectl get pods -n knative-eventing

STEP 2:

Create the cloudacademy namespace

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy
  labels:
    name: cloudacademy
EOF

Configure the cloudacademy namespace to be the default

kubectl config set-context --current --namespace cloudacademy

Step 3

Deploy Example Knative Service

Step 3.1

Install example helloworld service

for version in {1..2}; do
cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hellosvc
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: hellosvc-v$version
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: docker.io/cloudacademydevops/helloworld:v1
          env:
            - name: SENDER
              value: "cloudacademy.knative.v$version"
EOF
done

Test the hellosvc knative service

kubectl get ksvc

HELLO_SVC_URL=$(kubectl get ksvc/hellosvc -o jsonpath="{.status.url}")
echo $HELLO_SVC_URL

curl $HELLO_SVC_URL/hello

Display current revisions

kubectl get revision

Step 3.2

Install example helloworld service with traffic splitting

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hellosvc
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: hellosvc-v3
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: docker.io/cloudacademydevops/helloworld:v1
          env:
            - name: SENDER
              value: "cloudacademy.knative.v3"
  traffic:
  - tag: prod
    revisionName: hellosvc-v3
    percent: 50
  - tag: staging
    revisionName: hellosvc-v2
    percent: 50
  - tag: latest
    latestRevision: true
    percent: 0
EOF

Test the hellosvc knative service traffic splitting

kubectl get ksvc

HELLO_SVC_URL=$(kubectl get ksvc/hellosvc -o jsonpath="{.status.url}")
echo $HELLO_SVC_URL

for i in {1..10}; do
curl $HELLO_SVC_URL/hello
done

Test tag based urls

HELLO_SVC_URL_PROD=${HELLO_SVC_URL/hellosvc/prod-hellosvc}
curl $HELLO_SVC_URL_PROD/hello

HELLO_SVC_URL_STAGING=${HELLO_SVC_URL/hellosvc/staging-hellosvc}
curl $HELLO_SVC_URL_STAGING/hello

kubectl get revision

Step 4

Configure knative autoscaling using kpa and 2 requests in-flight per pod

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hellosvc
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: hellosvc-v4
      annotations:
        # 2 requests in-flight per pod - for testing
        autoscaling.knative.dev/class:  kpa.autoscaling.knative.dev
        autoscaling.knative.dev/metric: concurrency
        autoscaling.knative.dev/target: "2"
        autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "0"
        autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale: "20"
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: docker.io/cloudacademydevops/helloworld:v4
          imagePullPolicy: Always
          env:
            - name: SENDER
              value: "cloudacademy.knative.v4"
EOF

Send 20 concurrent curl requests to service - 5 times - for a total of 100 requests

for i in {1..100}; do echo $HELLO_SVC_URL/hello?id=$i; done | xargs -P 20 -n 1 curl

Examine pods

Note: All pods should eventually scale to zero (terminate) when traffic has completed. Rerunning the previous command will cause the pods to auto scale out to a maximum of 20 to serve the incoming traffic.

kubectl get pods --watch

Step 5

Install Eventing - Source to Sink

Step 5.1

Install PingSource

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1alpha2
kind: PingSource
metadata:
  name: ping-cloudacademy
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  schedule: "* * * * *"
  jsonData: '{"message": "knative rocks!!"}'
  sink:
    ref:
      apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Service
      name: cloudacademy-service
EOF

Step 5.2

Install Service - SimpleLogger

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-service
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: cloudacademy-service-v1
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: cloudacademydevops/simplelogger:v1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
EOF

Step 5.3

Examine SimpleLogger pod log

SIMPLELOGGER_POD=$(kubectl get pod -l app=cloudacademy-service-v1 --no-headers=true -o custom-columns=:metadata.name)
echo $SIMPLELOGGER_POD

kubectl logs $SIMPLELOGGER_POD -c user-container --follow

Step 6

Install Eventing - Channel and Subscription

Step 6.1

Install InMemoryChannel

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: messaging.knative.dev/v1
kind: InMemoryChannel
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-channel
  namespace: cloudacademy
EOF

Step 6.2

Install PingSource

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1alpha2
kind: PingSource
metadata:
  name: ping-cloudacademy
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  schedule: "* * * * *"
  jsonData: '{"message": "knative rocks!!", "from": "pingsource - channelsub"}'
  sink:
    ref:
      apiVersion: messaging.knative.dev/v1
      kind: InMemoryChannel
      name: cloudacademy-channel
EOF

Step 6.3

Install 2x Service - SimpleLogger

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-service1
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: cloudacademy-service1-v1
      annotations:
        autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "1"
        autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale: "1"
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: cloudacademydevops/simplelogger:v1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
---
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-service2
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: cloudacademy-service2-v1
      annotations:
        autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "1"
        autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale: "1"
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: cloudacademydevops/simplelogger:v1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
EOF

Step 6.4

Install 2x Subscription

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: messaging.knative.dev/v1
kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-sub1
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  channel:
    apiVersion: messaging.knative.dev/v1
    kind: InMemoryChannel
    name: cloudacademy-channel
  subscriber:
    ref:
      apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Service
      name: cloudacademy-service1
---
apiVersion: messaging.knative.dev/v1
kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-sub2
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  channel:
    apiVersion: messaging.knative.dev/v1
    kind: InMemoryChannel
    name: cloudacademy-channel
  subscriber:
    ref:
      apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Service
      name: cloudacademy-service2
EOF

Step 6.5

Examine SimpleLogger pods - log

SIMPLELOGGER_SVC1_POD=$(kubectl get pod -l app=cloudacademy-service1-v1 --no-headers=true -o custom-columns=:metadata.name)
SIMPLELOGGER_SVC2_POD=$(kubectl get pod -l app=cloudacademy-service2-v1 --no-headers=true -o custom-columns=:metadata.name)

echo $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC1_POD
echo $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC2_POD

kubectl logs $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC1_POD -c user-container --follow
kubectl logs $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC2_POD -c user-container --follow

Step 7

Install Eventing - Broker and Trigger

Step 7.1

Configure automatic knative eventing injection

kubectl label ns cloudacademy knative-eventing-injection=enabled

Install default Broker

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
kind: broker
metadata:
 name: default
 namespace: cloudacademy
EOF

Get the broker url for the cloudacademy namespace

kubectl config set-context --current --namespace cloudacademy
kubectl get broker default

Step 7.2

Install PingSource

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1alpha2
kind: PingSource
metadata:
  name: ping-cloudacademy
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  schedule: "* * * * *"
  jsonData: '{"message": "knative rocks!!", "from": "pingsource - brokertrigger"}'
  sink:
    ref:
      apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Broker
      name: default
EOF

Step 7.3

Install 3x Service - SimpleLogger

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-service1
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: cloudacademy-service1-v1
      annotations:
        autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "1"
        autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale: "1"
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: cloudacademydevops/simplelogger:v1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
---
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-service2
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: cloudacademy-service2-v1
      annotations:
        autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "1"
        autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale: "1"
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: cloudacademydevops/simplelogger:v1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
---
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-service3
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      name: cloudacademy-service3-v1
      annotations:
        autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "1"
        autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale: "1"
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: cloudacademydevops/simplelogger:v1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
EOF

Step 7.4

Install 3x Trigger

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
kind: Trigger
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-trigger1
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  broker: default
  filter:
    attributes:
      type: dev.knative.sources.ping
  subscriber:
    ref:
      apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Service
      name: cloudacademy-service1
---
apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
kind: Trigger
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-trigger2
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  broker: default
  filter:
    attributes:
      type: dev.knative.sources.ping
  subscriber:
    ref:
      apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Service
      name: cloudacademy-service2
---
apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
kind: Trigger
metadata:
  name: cloudacademy-trigger3
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  broker: default
  filter:
    attributes:
      type: cloudacademy.app.blah
  subscriber:
    ref:
      apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Service
      name: cloudacademy-service3
EOF

Step 7.5

Create Curler Pod

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  labels:
    run: curler
  name: curler
  namespace: cloudacademy
spec:
  containers:
  - name: curler
    image: fedora:latest
    tty: true
EOF

Step 7.6

Retrieve broker url

BROKER_URL=$(kubectl get broker default -o jsonpath='{.status.address.url}')
echo BROKER_URL: $BROKER_URL

Step 7.7

Perform an HTTP POST - send CloudEvent message

kubectl exec -it curler -- curl -v $BROKER_URL \
-H "Ce-Id: say-hello" \
-H "Ce-Specversion: 1.0" \
-H "Ce-Type: cloudacademy.app.blah" \
-H "Ce-Source: mycurl" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"key":"curl cloudevent message!!"}'

Step 7.8

Examine SimpleLogger pods - log

SIMPLELOGGER_SVC1_POD=$(kubectl get pod -l app=cloudacademy-service1-v1 --no-headers=true -o custom-columns=:metadata.name)
SIMPLELOGGER_SVC2_POD=$(kubectl get pod -l app=cloudacademy-service2-v1 --no-headers=true -o custom-columns=:metadata.name)
SIMPLELOGGER_SVC3_POD=$(kubectl get pod -l app=cloudacademy-service3-v1 --no-headers=true -o custom-columns=:metadata.name)

echo $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC1_POD
echo $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC2_POD
echo $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC3_POD

kubectl logs $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC1_POD -c user-container --follow
kubectl logs $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC2_POD -c user-container --follow
kubectl logs $SIMPLELOGGER_SVC3_POD -c user-container --follow

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