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last updated on November 29, 2021
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What is K3s?

K3s is a light-weight Kubernetes cluster designed to be a single binary of less than 40MB that completely implements the Kubernetes API. Due to its low resource requirements, it’s possible to run a cluster on anything from 512MB of RAM machines upwards. Find more information here.

Prerequisites:

  1. EC2 instance with at least 6 core and 20 GB memory (For running OES)

     

  2. Helm 3 is setup and initialized in your instance. If the helm is not set up, follow https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/ to install helm.

Steps:

1.To install k3s, switch to the root user, and execute the following commands.

				
					curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | INSTALL_K3S_EXEC="- -write-kubeconfig=/home/ubuntu/.kube/config - -write-kubeconfig-mode=644" sh -
				
			

By default Kubernetes, the config file will be written to the root user. To write to the Ubuntu user use the – -write-kubeconfig option. Find all the available installation options here

2. Create a namespace and make it as default

				
					kubectl create namespace oes
kubectl config set-context - -current - -namespace oes
				
			

3. Add opsmx helm repo to your instance (as ubuntu user)

				
					helm repo add opsmx https://helmcharts.opsmx.com/
				
			

4. Install Helm chart to the namespace created above using the helm repo as added above.

				
					helm install opsmx/oes --set
imageCredentials.username= --set
imageCredentials.password= --set
k8sServiceType=NodePort --timeout 15m
				
			

Available installation modes are:

By default, OES-AP gets installed if we are not specifying the installation mode. For more information please visit: https://github.com/OpsMx/enterprise-spinnaker/tree/master/charts/oes

Note: In the above command RELEASE_NAME is the name that you want to give to the particular installation. If you do not wish to specify a release name, pass –generate-name while running the helm install command. Find more details here.

5. Edit the Configmaps of oes-ui and oes-gate

OES installation will work off self without any manual intervention on cloud-managed Kubernetes clusters where load balancers will be assigned to oes-ui and oes-gate services. 

In this case, the private IP of the instance will be assigned to the oes-ui and oes-gate services. So to get the oes-ui access through the browser it is required to edit the configmap of oes-ui and oes-gate as follows.

In oes-ui-config, replace OES_GATE_IP with the IP of the node (Typically it is the VM IP when it is a single node k8s cluster. In this case, it is the public IP of ec2 instance). 

In oes-gate-config, replace OES_UI_LOADBALANCER_IP with the IP(public IP) of the instance.

6.After making the above changes to configmaps, restart oes-gate and oes-ui pods by running the following command

				
					kubectl rollout restart deploy oes-ui oes-gate
				
			

7. Once all pods are in a ready state, access oes-ui using the URL as given below.

				
					http://:
				
			

OES-ui-Nodeport can be fetched by running the following command.

				
					kubectl get svc oes-ui -o jsonpath="{.spec.ports[].nodePort}"
				
			

8. Login to OES using default credentials

Usernameadmin

Password: opsmxadmin123

9. To add worker nodes to the k3s cluster (If required), execute the following commands in the worker node.

				
					export K3S_URL=https://:6443
export K3S_TOKEN=
curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -
				
			

Token can be found in the location : /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server

Arjun P

Arjun has around 4 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked as a Linux administrator and DevOps engineer. in Wipro Limited. Arjun is an expert in Linux, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform etc. Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/arjun-p-766093132

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