Basics

First App

Clone this repo: https://github.com/wardviaene/kubernetes-course

1) Create pod from YAML file

$ kubectl create -f first-app/helloworld.yml
pod "nodehelloworld.example.com" created

YAML File

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
    name: nodehelloworld.example.com
    labels:
        app: helloworld
spec:
    containers:
    - name: k8s-demo
        image: wardviaene/k8s-demo
        ports:
        - name: nodejs-port
            containerPort: 3000

2) See pod status

$ kubectl get pod
NAME                                                 READY         STATUS                            RESTARTS     AGE
nodehelloworld.example.com     0/1             ContainerCreating     0                    1m

3) See pod config

$ kubectl describe pod nodehelloworld.example.com
Name:                 nodehelloworld.example.com
Namespace:        default
Node:                 docker-for-desktop/192.168.65.3
Start Time:     Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:12:20 +0700
Labels:             app=helloworld
Annotations:    <none>
Status:             Running
IP:                     10.1.0.5
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Events:
    Type        Reason                                 Age     From                                                 Message
    ----        ------                                 ----    ----                                                 -------
    Normal    Scheduled                            2m        default-scheduler                        Successfully assigned nodehelloworld.example.com to docker-for-desktop
    Normal    SuccessfulMountVolume    2m        kubelet, docker-for-desktop    MountVolume.SetUp succeeded for volume "default-token-ppmmf"
    Normal    Pulling                                2m        kubelet, docker-for-desktop    pulling image "wardviaene/k8s-demo"
    Normal    Pulled                                 13s     kubelet, docker-for-desktop    Successfully pulled image "wardviaene/k8s-demo"
    Normal    Created                                13s     kubelet, docker-for-desktop    Created container
    Normal    Started                                12s     kubelet, docker-for-desktop    Started container

4) Forward port

$ kubectl port-forward nodehelloworld.example.com 8081:3000
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8081 -> 3000

5) Expose service

$kubectl expose pod nodehelloworld.example.com --type=NodePort --name nodehelloworld-service
service "nodehelloworld-service" exposed

6) See list of service

$ kubectl get service
NAME                                         TYPE                CLUSTER-IP         EXTERNAL-IP     PORT(S)                    AGE
kubernetes                             ClusterIP     10.96.0.1            <none>                443/TCP                    1h
nodehelloworld-service     NodePort        10.97.86.198     <none>                3000:31543/TCP     14m

7) Get service url

$ kubectl describe service nodehelloworld-service
Name:                                         nodehelloworld-service
Namespace:                                default
Labels:                                     app=helloworld
Annotations:                            <none>
Selector:                                 app=helloworld
Type:                                         NodePort
IP:                                             10.97.86.198
LoadBalancer Ingress:         localhost
Port:                                         <unset>    3000/TCP
TargetPort:                             3000/TCP
NodePort:                                 <unset>    31543/TCP
Endpoints:                                10.1.0.5:3000
Session Affinity:                 None
External Traffic Policy:    Cluster
Events:                                     <none>

8) Test accessing app at http://localhost:31543/

Useful Commands

Attach to a pod (to see logs)

kubectl attach nodehelloworld.example.com -i
If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter.

Execute command on a pod

$ kubectl exec nodehelloworld.example.com -- ls /app
Dockerfile
docker-compose.yml
index-db.js
index.js
misc
node_modules
package.json

Run a shell in a pod

You can connect to another pod using Endpoints inspected by kubectl describe service.

$ kubectl run -i --tty busybox --image=busybox --restart=Never -- sh
If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter.
/ # telnet 10.1.0.5 3000
GET /

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 12
ETag: W/"c-7Qdih1MuhjZehB6Sv8UNjA"
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:37:54 GMT
Connection: close

Hello World!Connection closed by foreign host

Delete a pod

$ kubectl delete pod busybox
pod "busybox" deleted

Load Balancer