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 help is required getting started with Kubernetes and Deis Workflow, follow the quickstart guide for assistance.
- Verify the Kubernetes system requirements
- Install Helm Classic and Deis Workflow CLI tools
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 the Kubernetes cluster. helmc uses kubectl to interact
with the Kubernetes cluster.
helmc can be verified it is 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 helmc target shows 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.
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 the documentation for configuring object storage for more details.
More rigorous installations would benefit from using outside sources for the following things:
- Postgres - For example AWS RDS.
- Registry - This includes quay.io, dockerhub, Amazon ECR, and Google GCR.
- Redis - Such as AWS Elasticache
- InfluxDB and Grafana
The Deis Chart Repository contains everything needed to install Deis Workflow onto
a Kubernetes cluster, with a single helmc install command.
Add this repository to Helm Classic:
$ helmc repo add deis https://github.com/deis/charts
Now that Helm Classic is installed and the Deis Chart Repository has been added, install Workflow by running:
$ helmc fetch deis/workflow-v2.7.0 # fetches the chart into a
# local workspace
$ helmc generate -x manifests workflow-v2.7.0 # generates various secrets
$ helmc install workflow-v2.7.0 # injects resources into
# your cluster
Helm Classic will install a variety of Kubernetes resources in the deis namespace.
Wait for the pods that Helm Classic launched to be ready. Monitor their status by running:
$ kubectl --namespace=deis get pods
If it's preferred to have kubectl 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, it can be seen that the controller, builder and registry all took a few loops before they 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 all of the pods are in the READY state, Deis Workflow is up and running!
After installing Workflow, register a user and deploy an application.