Installing Drycc Workflow

If help is required getting started with Kubernetes and Drycc Workflow, follow the quickstart guide for assistance.

Prerequisites

1. Verify the Kubernetes system requirements
2. Install Helm and Drycc Workflow CLI tools

Check Your Setup

Check that the helm command is available and the version is v2.5.0 or newer.

$ helm version
Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.5.0", GitCommit:"012cb0ac1a1b2f888144ef5a67b8dab6c2d45be6", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Server: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.5.0", GitCommit:"012cb0ac1a1b2f888144ef5a67b8dab6c2d45be6", GitTreeState:"clean"}

Choose Your Deployment Strategy

Drycc Workflow includes everything it needs to run out of the box. However, these defaults are aimed at simplicity rather than production readiness. Production and staging deployments of Workflow should, at a minimum, use off-cluster storage which is used by Workflow components to store and backup critical data. Should an operator need to completely re-install Workflow, the required components can recover from off-cluster storage. See the documentation for configuring object storage for more details.

More rigorous installations would benefit from using outside sources for the following things:

• Postgres - For example AWS RDS.
• Registry - This includes quay.io, dockerhub, Amazon ECR, and Google GCR.
• Redis - Such as AWS Elasticache
• Grafana

Gateway

Now, workflow requires that gateway and cert-manager must be installed. Any compatible Kubernetes entry controller can be used.

Install Drycc Workflow

If the version of helm is 3.0 +; you need to create the namespace in advance:

kubectl create ns drycc

If you want to change it, set the variable when using helm.

$ helm install drycc oci://registry.drycc.cc/charts/workflow \
    --namespace drycc \
    --set builder.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set imagebuilder.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set controller.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set database.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set fluentbit.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set redis.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set rabbitmq.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set logger.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set storage.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set monitor.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set registry.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set registry-proxy.imageRegistry=quay.io \
    --set global.platformDomain=drycc.cc

Helm will install a variety of Kubernetes resources in the drycc namespace. Wait for the pods that Helm launched to be ready. Monitor their status by running:

$ kubectl --namespace=drycc get pods

If it’s preferred to have kubectl automatically update as the pod states change, run (type Ctrl-C to stop the watch):

$ kubectl --namespace=drycc get pods -w

Depending on the order in which the Workflow components initialize, some pods may restart. This is common during the installation: if a component’s dependencies are not yet available, that component will exit and Kubernetes will automatically restart it.

Here, it can be seen that the controller, builder and registry all took a few loops before they were able to start:

$ kubectl --namespace=drycc get pods
NAME                                     READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
drycc-builder-574483744-l15zj             1/1       Running   0          4m
drycc-controller-3953262871-pncgq         1/1       Running   2          4m
drycc-controller-celery-cmxxn             3/3       Running   0          4m
drycc-database-83844344-47ld6             1/1       Running   0          4m
drycc-logger-176328999-wjckx              1/1       Running   4          4m
drycc-logger-fluentbit-zxnqb              1/1       Running   0          4m
drycc-redis-304849759-1f35p               1/1       Running   0          4m
drycc-storage-676004970-nxqgt             1/1       Running   0          4m
drycc-monitor-grafana-432627134-lnl2h     1/1       Running   0          4m
drycc-monitor-telegraf-wmcmn              1/1       Running   1          4m
drycc-registry-756475849-lwc6b            1/1       Running   1          4m
drycc-registry-proxy-96c4p                1/1       Running   0          4m
drycc-rabbitmq-0                          1/1       Running   0          4m

Once all of the pods are in the READY state, Drycc Workflow is up and running!

For more installation parameters, please check the values.yaml file of workflow.

After installing Workflow, register a user and deploy an application.

Configure DNS

User must to set up a hostname, and assumes the drycc-builder.$host convention.

We need to point the drycc-builder.$host record to the public IP address of your builder. You can get the public IP using the following command. A wildcard entry is necessary here as apps will use the same rule after they are deployed.

$ kubectl get svc drycc-builder --namespace drycc
NAME              CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)                      AGE
drycc-builder     10.0.25.3    138.91.243.152   2222:31625/TCP               33m

If we were using drycc.cc as a hostname, we would need to create the following A DNS records.

Once all of the pods are in the READY state, and drycc-builder.$host resolves to the external IP found above, Workflow is up and running!

After installing Workflow, register a user and deploy an application.

If your k8s does not provide public network loadblance, you need to install TCP proxy services such as haproxy on machines that can access both internal and external networks, and then expose 80 and 443.