Tried k8s + Istio on my laptop with k3d
Tags: istio, kubernetes
Published: 2019-11-17 03:59:40

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title: Tried k8s + Istio on my laptop with k3d
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tags: istio,kubernetes
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## ## k8s on local

Sometimes I want to run k8s on my local machine to check something. So far I've used Minikube and one bound to Docker Desktop, but I wondered there might be newer ways to do it. Then I found this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/be0415/k3s_minikube_or_microk8s/

The following tools are introduced there:

* Minikube
* Microk8s
* K3s
* Kind
* Desktop Docker
* K3d
* Kubeadm

So I tried k3d, just because I felt I like it.

## ## k3d

https://github.com/rancher/k3d

It seems k3d runs k3s on Docker, which is also introduced in the thread above. I was confused a little bit when I thought Docker container which is for running Docker containers... but anyway I tried it. 

My laptop is Ubuntu, but it should work (I hope) on Windows & Mac because it's Docker.

Firstly, I installed it reading the README (it supports brew as well):

```sh
$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/k3d/master/install.sh | bash
```

Then, I created cluster and set configuration for kubectl:

```sh
$ k3d create
$ export KUBECONFIG=$(k3d get-kubeconfig)
```

It really worked!

```sh
$ kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                                      READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   local-path-provisioner-58fb86bdfd-kvmdh   1/1     Running     0          3m40s
kube-system   coredns-57d8bbb86-grbbr                   1/1     Running     0          3m40s
kube-system   helm-install-traefik-4qr7t                0/1     Completed   0          3m40s
kube-system   svclb-traefik-j8c49                       3/3     Running     0          3m5s
kube-system   traefik-65bccdc4bd-vtk9r                  1/1     Running     0          3m5s

$ kubectl get svc -A                                                                                                                                                                                   
NAMESPACE     NAME         TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP    PORT(S)                                     AGE                                                                                
default       kubernetes   ClusterIP      10.43.0.1      <none>         443/TCP                                     5m57s                                                                              
kube-system   kube-dns     ClusterIP      10.43.0.10     <none>         53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP                      5m56s                                                                              
kube-system   traefik      LoadBalancer   10.43.80.235   192.168.48.2   80:30107/TCP,443:31822/TCP,8080:31373/TCP   5m5s   
```

It seems to use traefik for a LoadBalancer service.

## ## Istio?

I hit upon an idea whether Istio could run on it. Then I found this issue:

https://github.com/rancher/k3d/issues/104

It seems he successfully ran Istio on it after he turned off traefik to avoid port conflict.

Let's try it.

### ### Create k3d cluster without traefik

```sh
# Delete the previous cluster
$ k3d delete

# Create a cluster without traefik
$ k3d create --server-arg --no-deploy --server-arg traefik

# Generate config
$ export KUBECONFIG=$(k3d get-kubeconfig)

# Check
$ kubectl get pod,svc -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                                          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   pod/local-path-provisioner-58fb86bdfd-h6npn   1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system   pod/coredns-57d8bbb86-zkjkq                   1/1     Running   0          13m

NAMESPACE     NAME                 TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                  AGE
default       service/kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.43.0.1    <none>        443/TCP                  13m
kube-system   service/kube-dns     ClusterIP   10.43.0.10   <none>        53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP   13m
```

Now I'm ready for installing Istio on it.

### ### Install Istio

I found the latest version was already 1.4, but I felt I would like to try 1.3 because 1.4 was released just in this month.

I downloaded Istio from here:

https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/tag/1.3.5

and I installed Istio following the steps in this page:

https://istio.io/docs/setup/install/helm/

I've already installed Helm on my laptop, and I chose the option of using `helm template`.

```sh
# Create a namespace for Istio
$ kubectl create namespace istio-system

# Install CRDs
$ helm template install/kubernetes/helm/istio-init --name istio-init --namespace istio-system | kubectl apply -f -

# Wait for the generation of the CRDs
$ kubectl -n istio-system wait --for=condition=complete job --all
```

Oh, I found the command has been changed. Previously, it was `wc` to check there're 23 CRDs created, but now it uses `kubectl wait --for`. Nice!

```sh
$ helm template install/kubernetes/helm/istio --name istio --namespace istio-system | kubectl apply -f -
```

I couldn't believe there's no error... This might be the first time for me to be able to install Istio without any troubles lol

```sh
kubectl get svc,pod -n istio-system
NAME                             TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP    PORT(S)                                                                                                                                      AGE
service/istio-galley             ClusterIP      10.43.10.191    <none>         443/TCP,15014/TCP,9901/TCP                                                                                                                   2m21s
service/istio-policy             ClusterIP      10.43.86.131    <none>         9091/TCP,15004/TCP,15014/TCP                                                                                                                 2m21s
service/istio-telemetry          ClusterIP      10.43.11.107    <none>         9091/TCP,15004/TCP,15014/TCP,42422/TCP                                                                                                       2m21s
service/istio-pilot              ClusterIP      10.43.126.19    <none>         15010/TCP,15011/TCP,8080/TCP,15014/TCP                                                                                                       2m21s
service/prometheus               ClusterIP      10.43.41.148    <none>         9090/TCP                                                                                                                                     2m21s
service/istio-citadel            ClusterIP      10.43.91.217    <none>         8060/TCP,15014/TCP                                                                                                                           2m21s
service/istio-sidecar-injector   ClusterIP      10.43.117.133   <none>         443/TCP,15014/TCP                                                                                                                            2m21s
service/istio-ingressgateway     LoadBalancer   10.43.69.0      192.168.96.2   15020:30845/TCP,80:31380/TCP,443:31390/TCP,31400:31400/TCP,15029:31842/TCP,15030:32247/TCP,15031:32685/TCP,15032:31093/TCP,15443:30499/TCP   2m21s

NAME                                          READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
pod/istio-init-crd-10-1.3.5-28hj7             0/1     Completed   0          5m40s
pod/istio-init-crd-11-1.3.5-vmwmw             0/1     Completed   0          5m40s
pod/istio-init-crd-12-1.3.5-84q77             0/1     Completed   0          5m40s
pod/istio-security-post-install-1.3.5-jb66j   0/1     Completed   0          2m21s
pod/svclb-istio-ingressgateway-ww22d          9/9     Running     0          2m21s
pod/istio-citadel-5c67db5cb-hmhvb             1/1     Running     0          2m20s
pod/prometheus-6f74d6f76d-tpjpc               1/1     Running     0          2m20s
pod/istio-policy-66d87c756b-hf4wx             2/2     Running     3          2m21s
pod/istio-galley-56b9fb859d-7jmsq             1/1     Running     0          2m21s
pod/istio-sidecar-injector-5d65cfcd79-lhh6k   1/1     Running     0          2m20s
pod/istio-pilot-64478c6886-9xm7b              2/2     Running     0          2m20s
pod/istio-telemetry-5d4c4bfbbf-g4ccz          2/2     Running     4          2m20s
pod/istio-ingressgateway-7b766b6685-5vwg5     1/1     Running     0          2m21s
```

Next, I tried to run a sample application on the Istio.

### ### Deploy bookinfo sample application

To check it actually works, I deployed bookinfo sample application included in Istio:

https://istio.io/docs/examples/bookinfo/

```sh
# Enable automatic sidecar injection
$ kubectl label namespace default istio-injection=enabled

# Deploy apps
$ kubectl apply -f samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml

# Wait for the deployment finished for example using watch
$ kubectl get pods -w
NAME                              READY   STATUS            RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-78d78fbddf-5db8b       0/2     PodInitializing   0          37s
reviews-v1-7bb8ffd9b6-rdgjc       0/2     PodInitializing   0          37s
ratings-v1-6c9dbf6b45-p7567       0/2     PodInitializing   0          36s
productpage-v1-596598f447-nj6wx   0/2     PodInitializing   0          36s
reviews-v3-68964bc4c8-qrhc4       0/2     PodInitializing   0          37s
reviews-v2-d7d75fff8-65f4q        0/2     PodInitializing   0          37s

# Create ingress gateway for bookinfo
$ kubectl apply -f samples/bookinfo/networking/bookinfo-gateway.yaml
```

After that, I confirmed External IP of LoadBalaner service:

```
$ kubectl get svc  -n istio-system istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}'
192.168.96.2
```

and opened the following URL with the IP:

http://{The IP Address}/productpage

I was surprised again that it worked!

![Alt Text](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/d09b8j6pg3qkpvqkeefj.png)

The memory usage of the container with bookinfo was around 2GiB:

```sh
$ docker stats --no-stream
CONTAINER ID        NAME                     CPU %               MEM USAGE / LIMIT    MEM %               NET I/O             BLOCK I/O           PIDS
598bd6d07c85        k3d-k3s-default-server   52.24%              1.909GiB / 15.4GiB   12.40%              819MB / 21.7MB      1.41MB / 818MB      899
```

Thought it wouldn't be easier to solve problems if something happens somewhere, it seems very convenient to run k8s on local with k3d.