Production Deployments

When readying a Workflow deployment for production workloads, there are some additional recommendations.

Running Workflow without drycc storage

In production, persistent storage can be achieved by running an external object store. For users on AWS, GCE/GKE or Azure, the convenience of Amazon S3, Google GCS or Microsoft Azure Storage makes the prospect of running a Storage-less Workflow cluster quite reasonable. For users who have restriction on using external object storage using swift object storage can be an option.

Running a Workflow cluster without Storage provides several advantages:

  • Removal of state from the worker nodes
  • Reduced resource usage
  • Reduced complexity and operational burden of managing Workflow

See Configuring Object Storage for details on removing this operational complexity.

Review Security Considerations

There are some additional security-related considerations when running Workflow in production. See [Security Considerations][] for details.

Registration is Admin-Only

By default, registration with the Workflow controller is in "admin_only" mode. The first user to run a drycc register command becomes the initial "admin" user, and registrations after that are disallowed unless requested by an admin.

Please see the following documentation to learn about changing registration mode:

Disable Grafana Signups

It is also recommended to disable signups for the Grafana dashboards.

Please see the following documentation to learn about disabling Grafana signups:

Running Workflow with RBAC

If your cluster has RBAC amongst your authorization modes ($ kubectl api-versions should contains rbac.authorization.k8s.io) it may be necessary to enable RBAC in Workflow. This can be achieved by setting use_rbac in the global section of values.yaml to true, or by adding --set=global.use_rbac=true to the $ helm install/upgrade command. RBAC support was announced in Kubernetes-1.5 and is enabled by default if: - your Kubernetes cluster is in GKE - your Kubernetes cluster built with kubeadm

Note: helm may need to be given specific permissions under RBAC if not already done.

Attention: Azure ACS Kubernetes clusters are not RBAC-enabled for today due to lack in authentication strategy. Feel free to watch this PR for more details.