Creating Clusters on SSH Nodes

Install the dependencies

On the computer that will be used for the installation, you need to install:

• git
• kubectl
• The wk binary. You can ensure it is in your path by running wk version

Entitlements

Ensure that wk can load a valid entitlements file.

Install WKP on SSH Nodes

Please ensure the nodes fulfill the requirements described in cluster node requirements.

If your cluster has multiple control plane nodes, to ensure high availability it is recommended to setup a control plane load balancer.

First, create a directory which will contain the cluster management scripts and binaries.

mkdir wkp-cluster && cd wkp-cluster

wk setup install --entitlements=/path/to/my/entitlements

The main configuration file will be unpacked at setup/config.yaml.

The required values are your git provider organization or user, your Docker Hub user, and an absolute path to a file containing your Docker Hub password:

mkdir -p ~/.wks

echo 'my-dockerhub-password' > ~/.wks/dockerhub-password

chmod 600 ~/.wks/dockerhub-password

Enter your gitProvider, gitProviderOrg, dockerIOUser, and dockerIOPasswordFile in your setup/config.yaml. (See Git Config Repository for details about git parameters)

Set the track field to wks-ssh, and optionally, set the clusterName. In the wksConfig section you can specify the version and other configuration for your cluster depending on your infrastructure.

In the wksConfig.sshConfig section, please provide a sshUser that has passwordless sudo access to your nodes, and the path to the matching private sshKeyFile.

In the machines array, specify the role of each node, and its private and public IP address. At least 1 master and 1 worker node is required.

Example:

machines:

- role: master

publicAddress: 35.195.66.60

privateAddress: 10.132.0.21

- role: worker

publicAddress: 34.77.149.149

privateAddress: 10.132.0.26

If you have a load balancer configured to route api-server (:6443) traffic to all of the master nodes specified in machines, you can provide its public IP Address in wksConfig.controlPlaneLbAddress. (See Control plane load balancers for details.)

WKP uses a personal access token to create the cluster repository on GitHub. The token needs to have permissions in the repo scope. The github documentation on how to create one can be found on this page. Once you have created one, set the environment variable for it:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=my-token

EKS-D

If you would like to run EKS-D in your cluster using the experimental support for EKS-D in WKP, please follow the instructions at: Using the EKS-D Kubernetes distribution

Now we are ready to install the cluster:

wk setup run

Access the WKP UI

via wk ui command

To expose the WKP UI via wk ui command, run:

wk ui

You should now be able to view it at http://localhost:8090

To expose the WKP UI to a different port other than the default, run:

wk ui --port 8081

via Application Load Balancer

To access the WKP UI via its assigned ingress, get the allocated address:

kubectl get ingress --namespace wkp-ui wkp-ui-alb-ingress

NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE

wkp-ui-alb-ingress * my-wkp-cluster.mycompany.com 80 7m5s

and navigate to it from your browser.

In this example the address is my-wkp-cluster.mycompany.com.

Delete a WKP cluster

You can use the cleanup.sh script:

./setup/cleanup.sh wk