Set up Kubernetes on Mac: Minikube, Helm, etc.

October 28, 2019

                                                                           

Set up docker, k8s and helm on a Mac Book Pro (OSX)

These k8s/helm/OSX install notes are reproduced from Rick Hightower with permission of Rick Hightower.

Install docker

 brew install docker

Install docker desktop for Mac.

Minikube

Use the version of k8s that the stable version of helm can use.

Install minikube

brew cask install minikube

Install hyperkit

brew install hyperkit

Run minikube that is compatible with the last stable helm relesae running on hyperkit

minikube start --kubernetes-version v1.15.4 --vm-driver=hyperkit --cpus=4 --disk-size='100000mb' --memory='6000mb'
  • minikube
  • start start mini kube
  • Use k8s compatible with helm 2 --kubernetes-version v1.15.4
  • Use the hyper kit driver --vm-driver=hyperkit
  • Use 4 of 8 virtual cores (MacBook Pro comes with 16 virtual cores and 8 cores) --cpus=4
  • Allocate 10GB of disk space --disk-size='100000mb' (Might need more
  • Use 6 GB of memory --memory='6000mb'

Helm Install

Install helm or just follow this guide on Helm install on a Mac.

Use brew to install helm on the mac

brew install kubernetes-helm

Note for production use cases or even shared public cloud, you must follow the guidelines to secure helm.

Install helm into your local dev cluster

helm init --history-max 200

Install the minikube addons

minikube addons enable ingress
✅  ingress was successfully enabled
minikube addons enable efk
✅  efk was successfully enabled
minikube addons enable logviewer
✅  logviewer was successfully enabled

Note Before you install any services with helm ensure tiller image has downloaded

kubectl get pods -n kube-system
NAME                                       READY   STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
coredns-5c98db65d4-s5mt9                   1/1     Running             0          5m9s
coredns-5c98db65d4-svhm4                   1/1     Running             0          5m9s
elasticsearch-logging-g28fp                0/1     Init:0/1            0          5m8s
etcd-minikube                              1/1     Running             0          4m17s
fluentd-es-km4fw                           0/1     ContainerCreating   0          5m8s
kibana-logging-n482d                       0/1     ContainerCreating   0          5m8s
kube-addon-manager-minikube                1/1     Running             0          4m13s
kube-apiserver-minikube                    1/1     Running             0          4m12s
kube-controller-manager-minikube           1/1     Running             0          4m2s
kube-proxy-7qwjc                           1/1     Running             0          5m9s
kube-scheduler-minikube                    1/1     Running             0          3m55s
logviewer-8664c4bdcd-n9bks                 0/1     ContainerCreating   0          5m7s
nginx-ingress-controller-778fcbd96-57g4k   0/1     ContainerCreating   0          5m7s
storage-provisioner                        1/1     Running             0          5m8s
tiller-deploy-7544fc765f-rfcw6             0/1     ContainerCreating   0          101s

Images have to be in the running state. Notice that fluentd and tiller are not running.

To look at logs inside of minikube

$ minikube ssh
$ cd /var/log
$ pwd
/var/log
$ sudo tail -f **/*.log

The look at logs in *.log.

Once Tiller is up you can run this:

$ kubectl logs -n kube-system  --follow tiller-deploy-7544fc765f-rfcw6

[main] 2019/10/23 14:30:13 Starting Tiller v2.15.0 (tls=false)
[main] 2019/10/23 14:30:13 GRPC listening on :44134
[main] 2019/10/23 14:30:13 Probes listening on :44135
[main] 2019/10/23 14:30:13 Storage driver is ConfigMap
[main] 2019/10/23 14:30:13 Max history per release is 200

Install prometheus

$ helm install stable/prometheus

Install Jenkins

$ helm install stable/jenkins

Verify installs

System pods

$ kubectl get pods -n kube-system
NAME                                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
coredns-5c98db65d4-s5mt9                   1/1     Running   0          5h41m
coredns-5c98db65d4-svhm4                   1/1     Running   0          5h41m
elasticsearch-logging-g28fp                1/1     Running   0          5h41m ## EFK Minikube addon
etcd-minikube                              1/1     Running   0          5h40m
fluentd-es-km4fw                           1/1     Running   0          5h41m ## EFK Minikube addon
kibana-logging-n482d                       1/1     Running   0          5h41m ## EFK Minikube addon
kube-addon-manager-minikube                1/1     Running   0          5h40m
kube-apiserver-minikube                    1/1     Running   0          5h40m
kube-controller-manager-minikube           1/1     Running   0          5h40m
kube-proxy-7qwjc                           1/1     Running   0          5h41m
kube-scheduler-minikube                    1/1     Running   0          5h40m
logviewer-8664c4bdcd-n9bks                 1/1     Running   0          5h41m ## logviewer Minikube addon
nginx-ingress-controller-778fcbd96-57g4k   1/1     Running   0          5h41m ## EFK Nginx Ingress Controller addon
storage-provisioner                        1/1     Running   0          5h41m
tiller-deploy-7544fc765f-rfcw6             1/1     Running   0          5h38m ## HELM

Other pods

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                                                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager-584cb4f5fd-7bbgh     2/2     Running   0          17m ## Helm Prometheus
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-kube-state-metrics-d7655fdtkpkr   1/1     Running   0          17m ## Helm Prometheus
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-node-exporter-xnw5n               1/1     Running   0          17m ## Helm Prometheus
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway-6f7494c5c-sqzz7       1/1     Running   0          17m ## Helm Prometheus
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server-664ff75f66-xtzjn           2/2     Running   0          17m ## Helm Prometheus
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins-744884567-pqgx7                        1/1     Running   0          12m ## Helm Jenkins

Run minikube

Run the minikube dashboard and see the deployments in the UI.

$ minikube dashboard

notes

Prometheus notes (yours will vary).

$ helm install stable/prometheus
NAME:   oldfashioned-whippet
LAST DEPLOYED: Wed Oct 23 15:30:16 2019
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/ConfigMap
NAME                                          DATA  AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager  1     1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server        3     1s

==> v1/PersistentVolumeClaim
NAME                                          STATUS  VOLUME                                    CAPACITY  ACCESS MODES  STORAGECLASS  AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager  Bound   pvc-46dc0345-9c09-413c-8476-256eb7a3f8e5  2Gi       RWO           standard      1s  Filesystem
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server        Bound   pvc-5cc0d588-a7fc-44d5-93ec-9578fafd9d00  8Gi       RWO           standard      1s  Filesystem

==> v1/Pod(related)
NAME                                                             READY  STATUS             RESTARTS  AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager-584cb4f5fd-7bbgh    0/2    Pending            0         0s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-kube-state-metrics-d7655fdtkpkr  0/1    ContainerCreating  0         0s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-node-exporter-xnw5n              0/1    ContainerCreating  0         0s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway-6f7494c5c-sqzz7      0/1    ContainerCreating  0         0s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server-664ff75f66-xtzjn          0/2    Pending            0         0s

==> v1/Service
NAME                                                TYPE       CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP  PORT(S)   AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager        ClusterIP  10.101.234.84  <none>       80/TCP    1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-kube-state-metrics  ClusterIP  None           <none>       80/TCP    1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-node-exporter       ClusterIP  None           <none>       9100/TCP  1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway         ClusterIP  10.105.193.19  <none>       9091/TCP  1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server              ClusterIP  10.110.136.5   <none>       80/TCP    1s

==> v1/ServiceAccount
NAME                                                SECRETS  AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager        1        1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-kube-state-metrics  1        1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-node-exporter       1        1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway         1        1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server              1        1s

==> v1beta1/ClusterRole
NAME                                                AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager        1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-kube-state-metrics  1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway         1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server              1s

==> v1beta1/ClusterRoleBinding
NAME                                                AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager        1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-kube-state-metrics  1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway         1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server              1s

==> v1beta1/DaemonSet
NAME                                           DESIRED  CURRENT  READY  UP-TO-DATE  AVAILABLE  NODE SELECTOR  AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-node-exporter  1        1        0      1           0          <none>         1s

==> v1beta1/Deployment
NAME                                                READY  UP-TO-DATE  AVAILABLE  AGE
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager        0/1    1           0          0s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-kube-state-metrics  0/1    1           0          1s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway         0/1    1           0          0s
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server              0/1    1           0          1s


NOTES:
The Prometheus server can be accessed via port 80 on the following DNS name from within your cluster:
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-server.default.svc.cluster.local


Get the Prometheus server URL by running these commands in the same shell:
  export POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods --namespace default -l "app=prometheus,component=server" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")
  kubectl --namespace default port-forward $POD_NAME 9090


The Prometheus alertmanager can be accessed via port 80 on the following DNS name from within your cluster:
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-alertmanager.default.svc.cluster.local


Get the Alertmanager URL by running these commands in the same shell:
  export POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods --namespace default -l "app=prometheus,component=alertmanager" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")
  kubectl --namespace default port-forward $POD_NAME 9093
#################################################################################
######   WARNING: Pod Security Policy has been moved to a global property.  #####
######            use .Values.podSecurityPolicy.enabled with pod-based      #####
######            annotations                                               #####
######            (e.g. .Values.nodeExporter.podSecurityPolicy.annotations) #####
#################################################################################


The Prometheus PushGateway can be accessed via port 9091 on the following DNS name from within your cluster:
oldfashioned-whippet-prometheus-pushgateway.default.svc.cluster.local


Get the PushGateway URL by running these commands in the same shell:
  export POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods --namespace default -l "app=prometheus,component=pushgateway" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")
  kubectl --namespace default port-forward $POD_NAME 9091

For more information on running Prometheus, visit:
https://prometheus.io/

Jenkins notes (yours will vary)


$ helm install stable/jenkins
NAME:   wrinkled-marsupial
LAST DEPLOYED: Wed Oct 23 15:35:12 2019
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/ConfigMap
NAME                              DATA  AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins        5     0s
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins-tests  1     0s

==> v1/Deployment
NAME                        READY  UP-TO-DATE  AVAILABLE  AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins  0/1    1           0          0s

==> v1/PersistentVolumeClaim
NAME                        STATUS  VOLUME                                    CAPACITY  ACCESS MODES  STORAGECLASS  AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins  Bound   pvc-8158743d-25e6-4910-8afb-255eaf41160f  8Gi       RWO           standard      0s  Filesystem

==> v1/Pod(related)
NAME                                        READY  STATUS    RESTARTS  AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins-744884567-pqgx7  0/1    Init:0/1  0         0s

==> v1/Role
NAME                                        AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins-schedule-agents  0s

==> v1/RoleBinding
NAME                                        AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins-schedule-agents  0s

==> v1/Secret
NAME                        TYPE    DATA  AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins  Opaque  2     0s

==> v1/Service
NAME                              TYPE          CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP  PORT(S)         AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins        LoadBalancer  10.98.189.23   <pending>    8080:31821/TCP  0s
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins-agent  ClusterIP     10.99.253.191  <none>       50000/TCP       0s

==> v1/ServiceAccount
NAME                        SECRETS  AGE
wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins  1        0s


NOTES:
1. Get your 'admin' user password by running:
  printf $(kubectl get secret --namespace default wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins -o jsonpath="{.data.jenkins-admin-password}" | base64 --decode);echo
2. Get the Jenkins URL to visit by running these commands in the same shell:
  NOTE: It may take a few minutes for the LoadBalancer IP to be available.
        You can watch the status of by running 'kubectl get svc --namespace default -w wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins'
  export SERVICE_IP=$(kubectl get svc --namespace default wrinkled-marsupial-jenkins --template "{{ range (index .status.loadBalancer.ingress 0) }}{{ . }}{{ end }}")
  echo http://$SERVICE_IP:8080/login

3. Login with the password from step 1 and the username: admin


For more information on running Jenkins on Kubernetes, visit:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/jenkins-on-container-engine

This wraps up some notes on how to install K8s on OSX with helm.

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