bees

MidoNet for Docker Swarm, CoreOS Kubernetes, Konsole, and other cluster management tools

Quick and Dirty Instructions

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We'll be using Zookeeper as an example here. Other services can simply be substituted in for Zookeeper in the following steps. See the running guide for details.

Zookeeper

There are two ways you run zookeeper in a clustered mode: with and without systemd and fleet. Currently etcd running somewhere is required at the moment. Let's go over each case here:

Note: For a simple way of getting etcd nodes up and running on each host for your containers to use, see the running guide.

Without systemd

The cluster is designed to be run with a series of self-standing Docker containers. Each one contains a copy of zookeeper, as well as confd and some watcher scripts to look at etcd keys for changes.

On a Docker host, we can run the following:

docker run -d --env HOST_IP=${COREOS_PUBLIC_IPV4} -p 2181:2181 -p 2888:2888 -p 3888:3888 timfallmk/bees:zookeeper

This is designed to run a single zookeeper container with some variables overridden.

HOST_IP is used to pass in the host IP address to the container so it can address itself properly. Since we're not running this on CoreOS, we need to fake an address to pass in instead of what would be automatically input. For right now, this also needs to be where etcd is running, so set it to that.

-p <port> Maps ports exposed in the container directly to corresponding ports on the host. If you want dynamic mapping (to run more than one on the same host, for example), you can use -P in place of all of the -p arguments. The zookeeper instances are also designed to work this way with minimal changes!

timfallmk/bees:zookeeper This is the docker image and the repository to pull it from. The zookeeper tag here pulls a the container for the zookeeper service.

The container should now go through some initial setup and will run everything necessary. Since we aren't using fleet to launch units here, we might need to initially set some keys in etcd for the first run configuration.

To do this, we can use etcdctl to set a key in the following place, with a JSON payload.

etcdctl set /service/zookeeper/<what we used for the ip earlier> '{"id":"1","address":"<same ip>","quorumport":"2888","electionport":"3888"}'

This should set the key for the initial run so things can be substituted properly. Note that you can also use curl to interact with etcd if you don't have etcdctl installed.

Congratulations you're now up and running with one node. You'll notice from the output that the zoo.cfg and myid files have been configured and the cluster is up and running. If you repeat the steps above with a second container (making sure to change the id and ip accordingly), you can watch as the new key in etcd is detected by confd, and it automatically updates all the necessary configs, restarting zookeeper afterwards.

Boom. Done.

With systemd

The easiest (and most automated) way to launch and manage the cluster is with systemd. We'll be doing it in CoreOS, which already has all the components we need. This assumes you already have a cluster up and running.

The steps here are very simple. We have systemd unit file templates which we will load into fleet and then just launch then. It's that easy. Let's do it.

First clone the repo onto whatever node you'll be working on. Which node doesn't matter.

git clone https://github.com/midonet/bees.git

systemd can bit a little finicky, so we'll need to load our templates carefully. First lets move to the systemd/templates directory and upload our templates.

fleetctl submit ./*

Important Make sure you don't load or start you're template files. If you do systemd will get very confused and you'll need to reload the daemon. CoreOS is working on this.

Now, to make things easier, lets make some unit files that are symlinks to our templates. Go to ../systemd and create the instances directory. You don't technically have to do things this way, but it makes it much easier. Once that's done, lets symlink our templates to specific unit files.

ln -s ../templates/[email protected] [email protected]
ln -s ../templates/[email protected] [email protected]

You can do this as many times as you like, substituting the 1 for whatever the id of that instance.

Next lets load up our instances so they're ready to run.

fleetctl load ./*

Now we're all ready to run. Lets launch just one this time, so we can see what happens.

fleetctl start ./[email protected]

This should start the unit on whatever host it was scheduled on. You can watch the process with fleetctl journal --follow [email protected]. You'll notice the same setup as without systemd as it's using the same container.

Your node should now be running. If you run etcdctl ls --recursive /services/zookeeper/ you should see an entry for the node that is now running. You can also try launching another unit and see it get scheduled somewhere else (as there is a restriction limiting one node to one host for now). You should see that a new key has been added in etcd and that the original node notices the change and reconfigures itself automatically. fleet will automatically reschedule if there are failures, and you can add or remove units in the same way as we just did.

Congratulations, scale up or down at your leisure.