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Installing Deis Workflow

This document is aimed at those who have already provisioned a Kubernetes v1.2 or v1.3.4+ cluster and want to install Deis Workflow. If you are just getting started with Kubernetes and Deis Workflow, follow our quickstart guide for help.

Prerequisites

  1. Verify the Kubernetes system requirements
  2. Install Helm Classic and Deis Workflow CLI tools

Check Your Setup

Check that the helmc command is available and the version is 0.8 or newer.

$ helmc --version
helmc version 0.8.1+a9c55cf

Ensure the kubectl client is installed and can connect to your Kubernetes cluster. helmc uses kubectl to interact with your Kubernetes cluster.

You can test that helmc and kubectl are working properly by running:

$ helmc target
Kubernetes master is running at https://52.9.206.49
Elasticsearch is running at https://52.9.206.49/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/elasticsearch-logging
Heapster is running at https://52.9.206.49/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/heapster
Kibana is running at https://52.9.206.49/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/kibana-logging
KubeDNS is running at https://52.9.206.49/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns
kubernetes-dashboard is running at https://52.9.206.49/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/kubernetes-dashboard
Grafana is running at https://52.9.206.49/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/monitoring-grafana
InfluxDB is running at https://52.9.206.49/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/monitoring-influxdb

If you see a list of targets like the one above, helmc can communicate with the Kubernetes master. Double check that the master returned by helmc target matches the expected cluster.

Choose Your Deployment Strategy

Deis Workflow includes everything it needs to run out of the box. However, these defaults are aimed at simplicity rather than production readiness. Production and staging deployments of Workflow should, at a minimum, use off-cluster storage. Which is used by Workflow components to store and backup critical data. Should an operator need to completely re-install Workflow, the required components can recover from off-cluster storage. See our documentation for configuring object storage for more details.

Workflow may also be configured to use off-cluster persistence for Postgres and Redis. A deployment strategy that mirrors the "stateless" clusters from Deis v1 PaaS.

Last but not least, Workflow may also use a dedicated off-cluster image registry, including Docker Hub, Quay.io, ECR or GCR for all container images. Read more about configuring your registry.

Add the Deis Chart Repository

The Deis Chart Repository contains everything you need to install Deis Workflow onto your Kubernetes cluster, with a single helmc install command.

Add this repository to Helm Classic:

$ helmc repo add deis https://github.com/deis/charts

Install Deis Workflow

Now that you have Helm Classic installed and have added the Deis Chart Repository, install Workflow by running:

$ helmc fetch deis/workflow-v2.6.0            # fetches the chart into a
                                              # local workspace
$ helmc generate -x manifests workflow-v2.6.0 # generates various secrets
$ helmc install workflow-v2.6.0               # injects resources into
                                              # your cluster

Helm Classic will install a variety of Kubernetes resources in the deis namespace. You'll need to wait for the pods that it launched to be ready. Monitor their status by running:

$ kubectl --namespace=deis get pods

If you would like kubectl to automatically update as the pod states change, run (type Ctrl-C to stop the watch):

$ kubectl --namespace=deis get pods -w

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, you can see that controller, builder and registry all took a few loops before there 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-router-k1ond             1/1       Running   0          5m
deis-workflow-manager-68nu6   1/1       Running   0          5m

Once you see all of the pods in the READY state, Deis Workflow is up and running!