1. Welcome to Kuberef’s documentation!

1.1. Introduction

Kuberef aims to develop and deliver a Kubernetes-based reference implementation according to CNTT RA-2 in close collaboration with the CNTT RI-2 workstream.

Note

This is just an example of a possible RI-2 deployment. Kuberef aims to support and include other potential hardware and Kubernetes deployers as well. More details can be found in the Kuberef Wiki.

1.2. Infrastructure Prerequisites

Please refer to Chapter 3 of CNTT RI-2 Documentation for detailed information on the server and network specifications.

Additionally, please make note of the following:

  1. Ensure that you have KVM installed and set up on your jump server. This is needed because the deployment will spin up a VM which will then carry out the host and Kubernetes installation.

  2. Generate SSH keypair.

  3. Add user to the sudo and libvirt group and have passwordless sudo enabled.

  4. Install Ansible (tested with 2.9.14) and yq.

Installing and configuring the prerequisites will depend on the operating system installed on the jump server. Below are additional details for setting up some of the more popular distributions.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Install packages using Apt

  • apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients genisoimage virt-manager bridge-utils python3-libvirt git jq

  • Some of the packages might be installed already

  • Start libvirtd if it isn’t running using service libvirtd start

  • Add user to libvirt group using adduser `id -un` libvirt

  • Log out and in on the current user to update the groups

If python isn’t available in the path, consider adding a symlink for Python3

  • ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

Install Ansible

  • apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible

  • apt-get install ansible

Install yq binary from Github

  • Find the correct build of version v3.4.1

  • Place the binary in /usr/bin/yq and make it executable chmod +x /usr/bin/yq

You might need to update the libvirt (QEMU) configuration if there are problems with user and group

  • You can set the user and group to “root” by uncommenting user and group in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

  • If the configuration is changed, finish by restarting libvirtd through service libvirtd restart

Generate SSH keypair

  • ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

CentOS 8

Install packages using dnf

  • dnf install qemu-kvm qemu-img libvirt virt-install libvirt-client python3 git jq

  • Some of the packages might be installed already

  • Start libvirtd if it isn’t running using service libvirtd restart

  • Add user to libvirt group using usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)

  • Log out and in on the current user to update the groups

If python isn’t available in the path, consider adding a symlink for Python3

  • ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

Install Ansible * dnf install epel-release * dnf install ansible

Install yq binary from Github

  • Find the correct build of version v3.4.1

  • Place the binary in /usr/bin/yq and make it executable chmod +x /usr/bin/yq

You might need to update the libvirt (QEMU) configuration if there are problems with user and group

  • You can set the user and group to “root” by uncommenting user and group in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

  • If the configuration is changed, finish by restarting libvirtd through service libvirtd restart

Generate SSH keypair

  • ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

1.3. Deployment

Please refer to Chapter 4 of CNTT RI-2 Documentation for instructions to get started with the deployment.

Once the deployment is successful, you will have a fully functional RI-2 setup!

1.4. Validation of the Reference Implementation

Kuberef has been validated by running test cases defined in CNTT RC2 Cookbook. For setting up RC2 Conformance toolchain, please refer to CNTT RC-2 Chapter 03.