Flux CD

Flux CD provides a set of Kubernetes controllers to enable a GitOps driven deployment of helm charts.

In this example, we deploy the flux helm and source controllers via a kpt package to the target workload cluster.

Then, we can utilize the flux Custom Resources defined in another test kpt package to deploy an example helm chart.

Prerequisites:

• [Nephio R1 sandbox]/content/en/docs/guides/install-guides/install-guides/_index.md): Set up the Nephio sandbox environment.
• Access to the Nephio Web UI
• Nephio R1 sandbox workload clusters: Create/Deploy the predefined set of workload clusters by completing the Free5GC Core quick start exercises up to and including Step 3.

Deploying the flux-helm-controllers pkg

Access the Nephio WebUI and do following steps:

We will deploy the flux-helm-controllers pkg from the nephio-example-packages repo to the edge02 workload cluster.

• Step 1

• Step 2

• Step 3

Click through the *Next button until you are through all the steps, leaving all options as default, then click Create Deployment.

• Step 4

At this point, we can take a closer look at the contents of the kpt package which contains the relevant Kubernetes resources to deploy the controllers.

Finally, we need to propose and then approve the pkg to initialize the deployment.

• Step 5

• Step 6

Shortly thereafter, you should see flux helm and source controllers in the flux-system namespace:

kubectl get po --context edge02-admin@edge02 -n flux-system

The output is similar to:

NAME                                 READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
helm-controller-cccc87cc-zqnd6       1/1     Running   0          6m20s
source-controller-5756bf7d48-hprkn   1/1     Running   0          6m20s

Deploying the onlineboutique-flux pkg

To make the demo kpt packages available in Nephio, we need to register a new External Blueprints repository. We can do this via kubectl towards the management cluster.

cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f - 
apiVersion: config.porch.kpt.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Repository
metadata:
  name: nordix-nephio-packages
  namespace: default
  labels:
    kpt.dev/repository-access: read-only
    kpt.dev/repository-content: external-blueprints
spec:
  content: Package
  deployment: false
  git:
    branch: master
    directory: /packages
    repo: https://github.com/Nordix/nordix-nephio-packages.git
  type: git

EOF

The new repository should now have been added to the External Blueprints section of the UI.

From here, we can see the onlineboutique-flux pkg to be deployed.

The HelmRepository Custom Resource within the kpt pkg refers to the official online boutique helm charts repository.

To deploy the pkg, repeat/follow Steps 1 - 6 from above, replacing Step 3 with the following. Take note of the source repository and the package to be deployed.

Shortly thereafter, you should see the online boutique components deployed in the online-boutique namespace:

kubectl get po --context edge02-admin@edge02 -n online-boutique

The output is similar to:

NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
adservice-5464cc8db4-p9sm2               1/1     Running   0          37s
cartservice-6458db7c7c-4scnh             1/1     Running   0          37s
checkoutservice-55b497bfb8-4x8jj         1/1     Running   0          37s
currencyservice-6f868d85d8-fgq6t         1/1     Running   0          37s
emailservice-5cf5fc5898-wzmz8            1/1     Running   0          37s
frontend-56bd99cb9b-thps4                1/1     Running   0          37s
loadgenerator-796b7d99dd-894gx           1/1     Running   0          37s
paymentservice-5ff68d9c7d-74q7c          1/1     Running   0          37s
productcatalogservice-6d9568bddb-8z66q   1/1     Running   0          37s
recommendationservice-c58857d6-qwrkd     1/1     Running   0          37s
redis-cart-7495b4ff99-gbq4m              1/1     Running   0          37s
shippingservice-6f65f85b8b-j5c28         1/1     Running   0          37s