aws/

README

Kubernetes on AWS

This is the source of the kube-aws tool and the installation artifacts used by the official Kubernetes on AWS documentation. View the full instructions at https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/kubernetes-on-aws.html.

Download pre-built binary

Import the CoreOS Application Signing Public Key:

gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key FC8A365E

Validate the key fingerprint:

gpg2 --fingerprint FC8A365E

The correct key fingerprint is 18AD 5014 C99E F7E3 BA5F 6CE9 50BD D3E0 FC8A 365E

Go to the releases and download the latest release tarball and detached signature (.sig) for your architecture.

Validate the tarball's GPG signature:

PLATFORM=linux-amd64
# Or
PLATFORM=darwin-amd64

gpg2 --verify kube-aws-${PLATFORM}.tar.gz.sig kube-aws-${PLATFORM}.tar.gz

Extract the binary:

tar zxvf kube-aws-${PLATFORM}.tar.gz

Add kube-aws to your path:

mv ${PLATFORM}/kube-aws /usr/local/bin

AWS Credentials

The supported way to provide AWS credentials to kube-aws is by exporting the following environment variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKID1234567890
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=MY-SECRET-KEY

Create a KMS Key

Amazon KMS keys are used to encrypt and decrypt cluster TLS assets. If you already have a KMS Key that you would like to use, you can skip this step.

Creating a KMS key can be done via the AWS web console or via the AWS cli tool:

$ aws kms --region=us-west-1 create-key --description="kube-aws assets"
{
    "KeyMetadata": {
        "CreationDate": 1458235139.724,
        "KeyState": "Enabled",
        "Arn": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-1:xxxxxxxxx:key/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "AWSAccountId": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "Enabled": true,
        "KeyUsage": "ENCRYPT_DECRYPT",
        "KeyId": "xxxxxxxxx",
        "Description": "kube-aws assets"
    }
}

You'll need the KeyMetadata.Arn string for the next step:

Initialize an asset directory

$ mkdir my-cluster
$ cd my-cluster
$ kube-aws init --cluster-name=my-cluster-name \
--external-dns-name=my-cluster-endpoint \
--region=us-west-1 \
--availability-zone=us-west-1c \
--key-name=<key-pair-name> \
--kms-key-arn="arn:aws:kms:us-west-1:xxxxxxxxxx:key/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

There will now be a cluster.yaml file in the asset directory.

Render contents of the asset directory

$ kube-aws render

This generates the default set of cluster assets in your asset directory. These assets are templates and credentials that are used to create, update and interact with your Kubernetes cluster.

You can now customize your cluster by editing asset files:

• cluster.yaml

  This is the configuration file for your cluster. It contains the configuration parameters that are templated into your userdata and cloudformation stack.

• cloud-config/

  • cloud-config-worker
  • cloud-config-controller

  This directory contains the cloud-init cloud-config userdata files. The CoreOS operating system supports automated provisioning via cloud-config files, which describe the various files, scripts and systemd actions necessary to produce a working cluster machine. These files are templated with your cluster configuration parameters and embedded into the cloudformation stack template.

• stack-template.json

  This file describes the AWS cloudformation stack which encompasses all the AWS resources associated with your cluster. This JSON document is temlated with configuration parameters, we well as the encoded userdata files.

• credentials/

  This directory contains the unencrypted TLS assets for your cluster, along with a pre-configured kubeconfig file which provides access to your cluster api via kubectl.

You can also now check the my-cluster asset directory into version control if you desire. The contents of this directory are your reproducible cluster assets. Please take care not to commit the my-cluster/credentials directory, as it contains your TLS secrets. If you're using git, the credentials directory will already be ignored for you.

Validate your cluster assets

The validate command check the validity of the cloud-config userdata files and the cloudformation stack description:

$ kube-aws validate

Create a cluster from asset directory

$ kube-aws up

This command can take a while.

Access the cluster

$ kubectl --kubeconfig=kubeconfig get nodes

It can take some time after kube-aws up completes before the cluster is available. Until then, you will have a connection refused error.

Export your cloudformation stack

$ kube-aws up --export

Development

Build

Run the ./build script to compile kube-aws locally.

This depends on having:

• golang >= 1.5

The compiled binary will be available at bin/kube-aws.

Run Unit Tests

go test $(go list ./... | grep -v '/vendor/')

Modifying templates

The various templates are located in the pkg/config/templates/ folder of the source repo. go generate is used to pack these templates into the source code. In order for changes to templates to be reflected in the source code:

go generate ./pkg/config

Useful Resources

The following links can be useful for development:

• AWS CloudFormation resource types

Contributing

Submit a PR to this repository, following the contributors guide. The documentation is published from this source.