Debugging station
When developing or troubleshooting Kairos, it can be useful to share a local cluster with another peer. This section illustrates how to use Entangle to achieve that. We call this setup debugging-station.
Configuration
Note
This section describes the configuration step by step. If you are in a hurry, you can skip this section and directly go to Deploy with AuroraBoot.When deploying a new cluster, we can use Bundles to install the entangle and cert-manager chart automatically. We specify the bundles in the cloud config file as shown below:
bundles:
- targets:
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:cert-manager_latest
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:kairos_latest
We also need to enable entangle by setting kairos.entangle.enable: true.
Next, we generate a new token that we will use to connect to the cluster later.
docker run -ti --rm quay.io/mudler/edgevpn -b -g
In order for entangle to use the token, we can define a Entanglement to expose ssh in the mesh network like the following:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
type: Opaque
stringData:
network_token: ___GENERATED TOKEN HERE___
---
apiVersion: entangle.kairos.io/v1alpha1
kind: Entanglement
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
spec:
serviceUUID: "ssh"
secretRef: "ssh-entanglement"
host: "127.0.0.1"
port: "22"
hostNetwork: true
Note
If you have already a kubernetes cluster, you can install the Entangle chart and just apply the manifest.This entanglement will expose the port 22 in the node over the mesh network with the ssh service UUID so we can later connect to it. Replace ___GENERATED TOKEN HERE___ with the token you previously generated with the docker command (check out the documentation for advanced usage).
In order to deploy the Entanglement automatically, we can add it to the k3s manifests folder in the cloud config file:
write_files:
- path: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/expose-ssh.yaml
permissions: "0644"
owner: "root"
content: |
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
type: Opaque
stringData:
network_token: ___GENERATED TOKEN HERE___
---
apiVersion: entangle.kairos.io/v1alpha1
kind: Entanglement
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
spec:
serviceUUID: "ssh"
secretRef: "ssh-entanglement"
host: "127.0.0.1"
port: "22"
hostNetwork: true
Here’s an example of a complete cloud configuration file which automatically install a Kairos node in the bigger disk, and exposes ssh with entangle:
#cloud-config
install:
device: "auto"
auto: true
reboot: true
hostname: debugging-station-{{ trunc 4 .MachineID }}
users:
- name: kairos
passwd: kairos
ssh_authorized_keys:
- github:mudler
k3s:
enabled: true
# Specify the bundle to use
bundles:
- targets:
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:system-upgrade-controller_latest
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:cert-manager_latest
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:kairos_latest
kairos:
entangle:
enable: true
write_files:
- path: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/expose-ssh.yaml
permissions: "0644"
owner: "root"
content: |
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
type: Opaque
stringData:
network_token: ___GENERATED TOKEN HERE___
---
apiVersion: entangle.kairos.io/v1alpha1
kind: Entanglement
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
spec:
serviceUUID: "ssh"
secretRef: "ssh-entanglement"
host: "127.0.0.1"
port: "22"
hostNetwork: true
In this file, you can specify various settings for your debugging station. For example, the hostname field sets the name of the machine, and the users field creates a new user with the name “kairos” and a pre-defined password and SSH key. The k3s field enables the installation of the k3s Kubernetes distribution.
Deploy with AuroraBoot
To automatically boot and install the debugging station, we can use Auroraboot. The following example shows how to use the cloud config above with it:
cat <<EOF | docker run --rm -i --net host quay.io/kairos/auroraboot \
--cloud-config - \
--set "container_image=quay.io/kairos/opensuse:leap-15.5-standard-amd64-generic-v3.0.13-k3sv1.29.3-k3s1"
#cloud-config
install:
device: "auto"
auto: true
reboot: true
hostname: debugging-station-{{ trunc 4 .MachineID }}
users:
- name: kairos
passwd: kairos
ssh_authorized_keys:
- github:mudler
k3s:
enabled: true
# Specify the bundle to use
bundles:
- targets:
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:system-upgrade-controller_latest
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:cert-manager_latest
- run://quay.io/kairos/community-bundles:kairos_latest
kairos:
entangle:
enable: true
write_files:
- path: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/expose-ssh.yaml
permissions: "0644"
owner: "root"
content: |
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
type: Opaque
stringData:
network_token: ___GENERATED TOKEN HERE___
---
apiVersion: entangle.kairos.io/v1alpha1
kind: Entanglement
metadata:
name: ssh-entanglement
namespace: kube-system
spec:
serviceUUID: "ssh"
secretRef: "ssh-entanglement"
host: "127.0.0.1"
port: "22"
hostNetwork: true
EOF
Connecting to the cluster
To connect to the cluster, we first need to open the tunnel in one terminal and then ssh from another one.
In one terminal, run the following command (it will run in the foreground):
# Run in a terminal (it is foreground)
export EDGEVPNTOKEN="___GENERATED TOKEN HERE___"
docker run -e "EDGEVPNTOKEN=$EDGEVPNTOKEN" --net host quay.io/mudler/edgevpn service-connect ssh 127.0.0.1:2222
In another terminal, run the following command to ssh to the box:
# Run in another terminal
ssh kairos@127.0.0.1 -p 2222
Note: it might take few attempts to establish a connection
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