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Scheduler plugin for deploying applications to kubernetes
https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes

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# dokku-scheduler-kubernetes

> If this plugin is missing a feature you need, consider [sponsoring development](https://github.com/dokku/.github/blob/master/SPONSORING.md). Pull requests always welcome!

A Dokku plugin to integrate with kubernetes.

## Requirements

- The `dokku-registry` plugin should be installed and configured for your app
- A configured kubectl (`/home/dokku/.kube/config`) that can talk to your cluster
- Dokku 0.20.4+

## Installation

You can install this plugin by issuing the command:

```shell
dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes
```

After the plugin has successfully been installed you need to install the plugin's dependencies by running the command:

```shell
dokku plugin:install-dependencies
```

## Functionality

The following functionality has been implemented

- Deployment and Service annotations
- Domain proxy support via the Nginx Ingress Controller
- Environment variables
- Letsencrypt SSL Certificate integration via CertManager
- Pod Disruption Budgets
- Resource limits and reservations (reservations == kubernetes requests)
- If no unit is specified, the values for memory are assumed to be in Mi (Megabytes)
- Zero-downtime deploys via Deployment healthchecks
- Traffic to non-web containers (via a configurable list)

Unsupported at this time:

- Custom docker-options (not applicable)
- Deployment timeouts (planned: [#30](https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes/issues/30))
- Dockerfile support (planned: [#29](https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes/issues/29))
- Encrypted environment variables (planned: [#9](https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes/issues/9))
- Proxy port integration (planned: [#29](https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes/issues/29))
- Manual SSL Certificates (planned: [#28](https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes/issues/28))
- The following scheduler commands are unimplemented:
- `enter` (planned: [#12](https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes/issues/12))
- `logs:failed`
- `run` (planned: [#12](https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes/issues/12))

> If this plugin is missing a feature you need, consider [sponsoring development](https://github.com/dokku/.github/blob/master/SPONSORING.md). Pull requests always welcome!

### Notes

- Each `Procfile` entry will be turned into a kubernetes `Deployment` object.
- Each `Procfile` entry name _must_ be a valid DNS subdomain.
- The `web` process will also create a `Service` object.
- Non-web processes can create a `Service` object via a configurable property.
- All created Kubernetes objects are tracked to completion via `kubedog`.
- All manifest templates are hardcoded in the plugin.

## Usage

Set the scheduler to `kubernetes`. This can be done per-app or globally:

```shell
# globally
dokku scheduler:set --global selected kubernetes

# per-app
dokku scheduler:set $APP selected kubernetes
```

You also need to ensure your kubectl has the correct context specified:

```shell
# as the dokku user
kubectl config use-context YOUR_NAME
```

And configure your registry:

```shell
dokku registry:set $APP server gcr.io/dokku/
```

Assuming your Dokku installation can push to the registry and your kubeconfig is valid, Dokku will deploy the app against the cluster.

The namespace in use for a particular app can be customized using the `:set` command. This will apply to all future invocations of the plugin, and will not modify any existing resources. If unspecified, the namespace in use is the cluster `default` namespace. The `scheduler-kubernetes` will create the namespace via a `kubectl apply`.

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:set $APP namespace test
```

If deploying from a private docker registry and the cluster needs does not have open access to the registry, an `imagePullSecrets` value can be specified. This will be injected into the kubernetes deployment spec at deploy time.

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:set $APP imagePullSecrets registry-credential
```

> See [this doc](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/pull-image-private-registry/) for more details on creating an `imagePullSecrets` secret file.

### Service Ingress

> This functionality assumes a helm-installed `nginx-ingress` controller:
>
> ```shell
> helm install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx --set controller.publishService.enabled=true
> ```

A Kubernetes Service object is created for each `web` process. Additionally, if the app has it's `proxy-type` set to `nginx-ingress`, then we will also create or update a Kubernetes ingress object within the namespace configured for the app. This can be set as follows:

```shell
dokku config:set $APP DOKKU_APP_PROXY_TYPE=nginx-ingress
```

The ingress object has the following properties:

- The name of the ingress object will be `app-ingress`.
- All kubernetes-deployed apps within the same namespace are added to the ingress object.
- Configured app domains are respected as unique rules.
- The configured service port for each rule is hardcoded to `5000`.

To modify the manifest before it gets applied to the cluster, use the `pre-kubernetes-ingress-apply` plugin trigger.

Service objects can also be created for specific process types by configuring the `service-process-types` property. This is a comma-separated list that is specific to an individual application, and will always implicitly include the `web` process type.

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:set $APP service-process-types http,worker
```

The PORT environment variable is hardcoded to 5000. No Ingress object is created for non-web processes.

#### Automated SSL Integration via CertManager

> This functionality assumes a helm-installed `cert-manager` CRD:
>
> ```shell
> kubectl create namespace cert-manager
> helm repo add jetstack https://charts.jetstack.io
> helm upgrade cert-manager jetstack/cert-manager --namespace cert-manager --version v1.10.0 --set installCRDs=true --install
> ```

At this time, the `scheduler-kubernetes` does not have support for custom SSL certificates. However, domains associated with an app can have a Letsencrypt SSL certificate provisioned automatically via the [CertManager](https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager) Kubernetes add-on.

To start using the CertManager, we will first need to set the issuer email

```shell
dokku config:set --global [email protected]
```

Next, any apps that will require cert-manager integration will need to have that enabled:

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:set $APP cert-manager-enabled true
```

On the next deploy or domain name change, the CertManager entry will be automatically updated to fetch an SSL certificate for all domains associated with all applications on the same ingress object.

### Pod Disruption Budgets

A PodDisruptionBudget object can be created, and will apply to all process types in an app. To configure this, the `pod-max-unavailable` and `pod-min-available` properties can be set:

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:set $APP pod-min-available 1

# available in kubernetes 1.7+
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:set $APP pod-max-unavailable 1
```

Pod Disruption Budgets will be updated on next deploy.

### Deployment Autoscaling

> This feature requires an installed metric server, uses the `autoscaling/v2beta2` api, and will apply immediately. Only `resource` rules are supported when using the official metric-server, all others require the prometheus-operator and prometheus-adapter.

By default, Kubernetes deployments are not set to autoscale, but a HorizontalPodAutoscaler object can be managed for an app on a per-process type basis - referenced as `$PROC_TYPE` below. Using the HorizontalPodAutoscaler will disable the normal usage of `ps:scale` for the specified app/process-type combination, as per Kubernetes best practices.

At a minimum, both a min/max number of replicas must be set.

```shell
# set the min number of replicas
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:autoscale-set $APP $PROC_TYPE min-replicas 1

# set the max number of replicas
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:autoscale-set $APP $PROC_TYPE max-replicas 10
```

You also need to add autoscaling rules. These can be managed via the `:autoscale-rule-add` command. Adding a rule for a target-name/metric-type combination that already exists will override any existing rules.

Rules can be added for the following metric types:

- `external`:
- format: `external:$NAME:$TYPE:$VALUE[:$SELECTOR]`
- fields:
- `$NAME`: The name of the external metric to track
- `$TYPE` (valid values: `[AverageValue, Value]`): The type of the target.
- `$VALUE`: The value to track.
- `$SELECTOR` (optional): The selector to use for filtering to one or more specific metric series.
- `ingress`:
- format: `ingress:$NAME:$TYPE:$VALUE[:$INGRESS]`
- fields:
- `$NAME`: The name of the ingress metric to track.
- `$TYPE` (valid values: `[AverageValue, Value]`): The type of the target.
- `$VALUE`: The value to track.
- `$INGRESS` (default: `app-ingress`): The name of the ingress object to filter on.
- `pods`
- format: `pods:$NAME:$TYPE:$VALUE`
- fields:
- `$NAME`: The name of the metric from the pod resource to track.
- `$TYPE` (valid values: `[AverageValue]`): The type of the target.
- `$VALUE`: The value to track.
- `resource`
- format: `resource:$NAME:$TYPE:$VALUE`
- fields:
- `$NAME` (valid values: `[cpu, memory]`): The name of the metric to track.
- `$TYPE` (valid values: `[AverageValue, Utilization]`): The type of the target.
- `$VALUE`: The value to track.

```shell
# set the cpu average utilization target
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:autoscale-rule-add $APP $PROC_TYPE resource:cpu:Utilization:50
```

Rules can be listed via the `autoscale-rule-list` command:

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:autoscale-rule-list $APP $PROC_TYPE
```

Rules can be removed via the `:autoscale-rule-remove` command. This command takes the same arguments as the `autoscale-rule-add` command, though the value is optional. If a rule matching the specified arguments does not exist, the command will still return 0.

```shell
# remove the cpu rule
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:autoscale-rule-remove $APP $PROC_TYPE resource:cpu:Utilization:50

# remove the cpu rule by prefix
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:autoscale-rule-remove $APP $PROC_TYPE resource:cpu:Utilization
```

Autoscaling rules are applied automatically during the next deploy, though may be immediately applied through the `:autoscale-apply` command:

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:autoscale-apply $APP $PROC_TYPE
```
### Persistent Volume Claims (pvc)

Pods use pvcs as volumes. For volumes that support multiple access modes, the user specifies which mode is desired when using their claim as a volume in a Pod. [See supported access modes by providers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/#access-modes)

```shell
# create a pvc
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:add-pvc $NAME $SIZE [--access-mode $MODE][--namespace $NAMESPACE ][--storage-class-name $CLASS]
```

Fields:
- `$NAME`: The name of the persistent volume claim
- `$SIZE` is a numeric size of claim in MB.
- `$MODE`: Access mode must be either of ReadWriteOnce, ReadOnlyMany or ReadWriteMany. Default is ReadWriteOnce
- `$NAMESPACE` : The namespace for the pvc. Default is "default"
- `$CLASS`: The storage class name. Default is k8s providers default storage class

```shell
# list pvcs
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:list-pvc [$NAMESPACE]
```

```shell
# delete pvc
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:remove-pvc $NAME --namespace $NAMESPACE
```

#### Mounting a volume using PVC
Pods access storage by using the claim as a volume.

```shell
# mounting a volume (requires a re-deploy to take effect)
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:mount $APP_NAME $PVC_NAME $CONTAINER_PATH
```

Fields:
- `$APP_NAME`: The name of the app
- `$PVC_NAME`: Name of persistent volume claim. Will be used as volume name. Claims must exist in the same namespace as the app.

List mounted volumes for an app:
```shell
# list mounted volumes
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:list-mount $APP_NAME
```

Unmount a volume:
```shell
# unmount a volume (requires a re-deploy to take effect)
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:unmount $APP_NAME $PVC_NAME $CONTAINER_PATH
```

Unmount all volumes:
```shell
# unmount all (requires a re-deploy to take effect)
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:unmount-all $APP_NAME
```

### Kubernetes Manifests

> Warning: Running this command exposes app environment variables to stdout.

The kubernetes manifest for a deployment or service can be displayed using the `:show-manifest` command. This manifest can be used to inspect what would be submitted to Kubernetes.

```shell
# show the deployment manifest for the `web` process type
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:show-manifest $APP $PROC_TYPE $MANIFEST_TYPE
```

This command can be used like so:

```shell
# show the deployment manifest for the `web` process type
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:show-manifest node-js-sample web

# implicitly specify the deployment manifest
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:show-manifest node-js-sample web deployment

# show the service manifest for the `web` process type
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:show-manifest node-js-sample web service
```

The command will exit non-zero if the specific manifest for the given app/process type combination is not found.

### Annotations

> Warning: There is no validation for on annotation keys or values.

#### Deployment Annotations

These can be managed by the `:deployment-annotations-set` command.

```shell
# command structure
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:deployment-annotations-set $APP $ANNOTATION_NAME $ANNOTATION_VALUE

# set example
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:deployment-annotations-set node-js-sample pod.kubernetes.io/lifetime 86400s

# unset example, leave the value empty
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:deployment-annotations-set node-js-sample pod.kubernetes.io/lifetime
```

Currently, these apply globally to all processes within a deployed app.

#### Pod Annotations

These can be managed by the `:pod-annotations-set` command.

```shell
# command structure
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:pod-annotations-set $APP name value

# set example
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:pod-annotations-set node-js-sample pod.kubernetes.io/lifetime 86400s

# unset example, leave the value empty
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:pod-annotations-set node-js-sample pod.kubernetes.io/lifetime
```

Currently, these apply globally to all processes within a deployed app.

#### Service Annotations

These can be managed by the `:service-annotations-set` command.

```shell
# command structure
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:service-annotations-set $APP name value

# set example
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:service-annotations-set node-js-sample pod.kubernetes.io/lifetime 86400s

# unset example, leave the value empty
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:service-annotations-set node-js-sample pod.kubernetes.io/lifetime
```

Currently, they are applied to the `web` process, which is the only process for which a Kubernetes Service is created.

#### Ingress Annotations on Namespaces

These can be managed by the `:ingress-annotations-set` command.

```shell
# command structure
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:ingress-annotations-set $NAMESPACE name value

# set example
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:ingress-annotations-set my-namespace nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity cookie

# unset example, leave the value empty
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:ingress-annotations-set my-namespace nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity
```

Currently, these apply to all deployments within an namespace.
### Rolling Updates

For deployments that use a `rollingUpdate` for rollouts, a `rollingUpdate` may be triggered at a later date via the `:rolling-update` command.

```shell
dokku scheduler-kubernetes:rolling-update $APP
```

### Health Checks

Health checks for the app may be configured in `app.json`, based on [Kubernetes
liveness and readiness
probes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-probes/).
All Kubernetes options that can occur within a [Probe
object](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.14/#probe-v1-core)
are supported, though syntax is JSON rather than YAML. The variable `$APP` may
be used to represent the app name.

If a process type is not configured for a given probe type (liveness or
readiness), any probe of the same type for the `"*"` default process type is
used instead.

Here (click the triangle to expand) is an example JSON for
Kubernetes health checks.

```json
{
"healthchecks": {
"web": {
"readiness": {
"httpGet": {
"path": "/{{ $APP }}/readiness_check",
"port": 5000
},
"initialDelaySeconds": 5,
"periodSeconds": 5
}
},
"*": {
"liveness": {
"exec": {
"command": ["/bin/pidof", "/start"]
},
"initialDelaySeconds": 5,
"periodSeconds": 5
},
"readiness": {
"httpGet": {
"path": "web processes override this.",
"port": 5000
},
"initialDelaySeconds": 5,
"periodSeconds": 5
}
}
}
}
```

## Plugin Triggers

The following custom triggers are exposed by the plugin:

### `post-deploy-kubernetes-apply`

- Description: Allows a user to interact with the `deployment` manifest after it has been submitted.
- Invoked by:
- Arguments: `$APP` `$PROC_TYPE` `$MANIFEST_FILE` `$MANIFEST_TYPE`
- Example:

```shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -eo pipefail; [[ $DOKKU_TRACE ]] && set -x

# TODO
```

### `pre-ingress-kubernetes-apply`

- Description: Allows a user to interact with the `ingress` manifest before it has been submitted.
- Invoked by: `core-post-deploy`, `post-domains-update`, `post-proxy-ports-update`, and `proxy-build-config` triggers
- Arguments: `$APP` `$MANIFEST_FILE`
- Example:

```shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -eo pipefail; [[ $DOKKU_TRACE ]] && set -x

# TODO
```

### `pre-deploy-kubernetes-apply`

- Description: Allows a user to interact with the `deployment|service` manifest before it has been submitted.
- Invoked by: `scheduler-deploy` trigger and `:show-manifest`
- Arguments: `$APP` `$PROC_TYPE` `$MANIFEST_FILE` `$MANIFEST_TYPE`
- Example:

```shell
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -eo pipefail; [[ $DOKKU_TRACE ]] && set -x

# TODO
```