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Kubernetes

Working with Kubernetes Cluster using Kubectl Part – 7 – Labels

July 26, 2019 comments off

PodsToNodes.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod-ssd
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
  nodeSelector:
    disk: local_ssd
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod-gpu
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
  nodeSelector:
    hardware: local_gpu
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80

CreatePodsWithLabels.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod-1
  labels: 
    app: MyWebApp
    deployment: v1
    tier: prod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod-2
  labels: 
    app: MyWebApp
    deployment: v1.1
    tier: prod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod-3
  labels: 
    app: MyWebApp
    deployment: v1.1
    tier: qa
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod-4
  labels: 
    app: MyAdminApp
    deployment: v1
    tier: prod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
---

deployment-label.yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: hello-world
  labels:
    app: hello-world
spec:
  replicas: 4
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello-world
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: hello-world
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: hello-world
        image: gcr.io/google-samples/hello-app:1.0
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080

service.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hello-world
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8080
  selector:
    app: hello-world

Commands

#Demo requires nodes c1-master1, c1-node1, c1-node2 and c1-node3
ssh aen@c1-master1
cd ~/content/course/m3/demos

#Create a collection of pods with labels assinged to each
more CreatePodsWithLabels.yaml
kubectl apply -f CreatePodsWithLabels.yaml

#Look at all the Pod labels in our cluster
kubectl get pods --show-labels

#Look at one Pod's labels in our cluster
kubectl describe pod nginx-pod-1 | head

#Query labels and selectors
kubectl get pods --selector tier=prod
kubectl get pods --selector tier=qa
kubectl get pods -l tier=prod
kubectl get pods -l tier=prod --show-labels

#Selector for multiple labels and adding on show-labels to see those labels in the output
kubectl get pods -l 'tier=prod,app=MyWebApp' --show-labels
kubectl get pods -l 'tier=prod,app!=MyWebApp' --show-labels
kubectl get pods -l 'tier in (prod,qa)'
kubectl get pods -l 'tier notin (prod,qa)'

#Output a particluar label in column format
kubectl get pods -L tier
kubectl get pods -L tier,app

#Edit an existing label
kubectl label pod nginx-pod-1 tier=non-prod --overwrite
kubectl get pod nginx-pod-1 --show-labels

#Adding a new label
kubectl label pod nginx-pod-1 another=Label
kubectl get pod nginx-pod-1 --show-labels

#Removing an existing label
kubectl label pod nginx-pod-1 another-
kubectl get pod nginx-pod-1 --show-labels

#Performing an operation on a collection of pods based on a label query
kubectl label pod --all tier=non-prod --overwrite
kubectl get pod --show-labels

#Delete all pods matching our non-prod label
kubectl delete pod -l tier=non-prod

#And we're left with nothing.
kubectl get pods --show-labels

#Kubernetes Resource Management
#Start a Deployment with 3 replicas, open deployment-label.yaml
kubectl apply -f deployment-label.yaml

#Expose our Deployment as  Service, open service.yaml
kubectl apply -f service.yaml

#Look at the Labels and Selectors on each resource, the Deployment, ReplicaSet and Pod
#The deployment has a selector for app=hello-world
kubectl describe deployment hello-world

#The ReplicaSet has labels and selectors for app and the current pod-template-hash
#Look at the Pod Template and the labels on the Pods created
kubectl describe replicaset hello-world

#The Pods have labels for app=hello-world and for the pod-temlpate-hash of the current ReplicaSet
kubectl get pods --show-labels

#Edit the label on one of the Pods in the ReplicaSet, change the pod-template-hash
kubectl label pod hello-world-5646fcc96b-kjvnl pod-template-hash=DEBUG --overwrite

#The ReplicaSet will deploy a new Pod to satisfy the number of replicas. Our relabeled Pod still exists.
kubectl get pods --show-labels

#Let's look at how Services use labels and selectors, check out services.yaml
kubectl get service

#The selector for this serivce is app=hello-world, that pod is still being load balanced to!
kubectl describe service hello-world 

#Get a list of all IPs in the service, there's 5...why?
kubectl describe endpoints hello-world

#Get a list of pods and their IPs
kubectl get pod -o wide

#To remove a pod from load balancing, change the label used by the service's selector.
#The ReplicaSet will respond by placing another pod in the ReplicaSet
kubectl get pods --show-labels
kubectl label pod hello-world-5646fcc96b-kjvnl app=DEBUG --overwrite

#Check out all the labels in our pods
kubectl get pods --show-labels

#Look at the registered endpoint addresses. Now there's 4
kubectl describe endpoints hello-world

#To clean up, delete the deployment, service and the Pod removed from the replicaset
kubectl delete deployment hello-world
kubectl delete service hello-world
kubectl delete pod hello-world-5646fcc96b-kjvnl

#Scheduling a pod to a node
#Scheduling is a much deeper topic, we're focusing on how labels can be used to influence it here.
kubectl get nodes --show-labels 

#Label our nodes with something descriptive
kubectl label node c1-node2 disk=local_ssd
kubectl label node c1-node3 hardware=local_gpu

#Query our labels to confirm.
kubectl get node -L disk,hardware

#Create three Pods, two using nodeSelector, one without.
more PodsToNodes.yaml
kubectl apply -f PodsToNodes.yaml

#View the scheduling of the pods in the cluster.
kubectl get node -L disk,hardware
kubectl get pods -o wide

#Clean up when we're finished, delete our labels and Pods
kubectl label node c1-node2 disk-
kubectl label node c1-node3 hardware-
kubectl delete pod nginx-pod
kubectl delete pod nginx-pod-gpu
kubectl delete pod nginx-pod-ssd
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