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Pats21
PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:45 am    Post subject: IIB on Docker/Kubernetes Reply with quote

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Joined: 08 Sep 2006
Posts: 154

Hi All,

Would like to know if anyone has worked on IIB on Dockers and Kubernetes.

I have got the docker image, however want to run the same on Kubernetes Cluster.

I am looking for a sample Deployment YAML file.

If anyone has worked. Kindly help.


Thanks in advance.
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joebuckeye
PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 9:40 am    Post subject: Re: IIB on Docker/Kubernetes Reply with quote

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Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 364
Location: Columbus, OH

We started looking into it, first with IIB 10 and then with ACE but found with our current license with IBM that it would be cost prohibitive to run in containers.

ACE is much better setup to run in containers than IIB from what we found. This is to be expected though since ACE is more recent.

We relied heavily on this link https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/ace/ for building our ACE image that we ran in Kube.

Here is the deployment yaml we used (I redacted our image name and truststore password). We had separate yaml's for service and ingress artifacts.

Code:

---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: ace-rad-deployment
  labels:
    app: ace-rad
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: ace-rad
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: ace-rad
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: ace-rad
        image: IMAGE NAME GOES HERE
        env:
        - name: LICENSE
          value: accept
        - name: MQ_QMGR_NAME
          value: RAD_QM
        - name: ACE_SERVER_NAME
          value: RAD_ACE
        - name: ACE_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD
          value: PASSWORD GOES HERE
        resources:
          limits:
            memory: "2Gi"
        ports:
        - containerPort: 7600
        - containerPort: 7800
        - containerPort: 7843
        - containerPort: 1414
        - containerPort: 9443


But the Kube part is easy, we spent most of the time on getting the image to work how we wanted.

And most of that work was adding scripts and files where the image expects to find things (mainly in /home/aceuser/initial-config sub-folders) to allow easy config of the image.
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Pats21
PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Disciple

Joined: 08 Sep 2006
Posts: 154

Thank you for your response joebuckeye.
It was useful.

Additionally, I am trying to access the WebUI for the pod that is running as part of this deployment.

Can you let me know how to access the same? i.e. the IP Address and Port on which it would be available.
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fjb_saper
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Pats21 wrote:
Thank you for your response joebuckeye.
It was useful.

Additionally, I am trying to access the WebUI for the pod that is running as part of this deployment.

Can you let me know how to access the same? i.e. the IP Address and Port on which it would be available.

Check the documentation. I believe by default you're looking at port 4414.
You need to make sure the port is open in the firewall and mapped / routed.
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timber
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 25 Aug 2015
Posts: 1280

Quote:
I am trying to access the WebUI for the pod that is running as part of this deployment
You will need to create an Ingress definition for that.
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joebuckeye
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 364
Location: Columbus, OH

There are a couple ways to get WebGUI access to your instance in the pod.

If you are on your local development machine you can set up a Service artifact using NodePorts.

Code:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: ace-rad
  labels:
    app: ace-rad
    aprmid: "7076"
spec:
  type: NodePort
  selector:
    app: ace-rad
  ports:
    - name: web-gui
      protocol: TCP
      port: 7600
      nodePort: 31600
    - name: ace-http
      protocol: TCP
      port: 7800
      nodePort: 31800
    - name: ace-https
      protocol: TCP
      port: 7843
      nodePort: 31843
    - name: mq
      protocol: TCP
      port: 1414
      nodePort: 31414
    - name: mq-console
      protocol: TCP
      port: 9443
      nodePort: 31443


This names the ports you exposed in your deployment and the nodePort says what port to listen on your dev machine (in the above file that would be port 7600). But port mapping is very easy so you could make it anything you want.

If this was to be deployed to a Kube cluster then you still need the Service artifact but it would be different than the local nodePort one.

Code:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: ace-rad-service
  labels:
    app: ace-rad
    aprmid: "7076"
spec:
  selector:
    app: ace-rad
  ports:
    - name: web-gui
      protocol: TCP
      port: 7600
    - name: ace-http
      protocol: TCP
      port: 7800
    - name: ace-https
      protocol: TCP
      port: 7843
    - name: mq
      protocol: TCP
      port: 1414
    - name: mq-console
      protocol: TCP
      port: 9443


Then you need to setup an Ingress as timber mentioned.

There is not much here because I blanked out our specific setup stuff and this would be very dependent on the infrastructure your Kube team has set up for you.

Code:

---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ace-rad-ingress
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "default"
    kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true"
spec:
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - ace.example.com
    secretName: ace-example-cert
  rules:
  - host: ace.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: ace-rad-service
          servicePort: ace-http


In the above Ingress we are only exposing the ace-http port (7800) to the outside world.

You can add more ports or URI mappings under the rules: stanza.

Good luck on your Kube journey BTW. I found it very flexible and quick and easy to modify once you get the basics down. You can create a basic ACE template and then start dropping in BAR files.

It is best when you can create a pipeline that detects code check in, builds a BAR file, creates a new image using that BAR file and then reloading your pod to use the new image.
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timber
PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 25 Aug 2015
Posts: 1280

In case it helps, the OP is asking about IIB on Kubernetes. You can run IIB in Kubernetes but ACE is much easier because it has specific features that make it simple to create a container image for a BAR file.
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joebuckeye
PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 364
Location: Columbus, OH

In my experience the Kube part is much easier than getting the IIB or ACE image working as you want it to.
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