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machine-controller-manager-provider-aws

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Out of tree (controller based) implementation for AWS as a new provider.

About

  • The AWS Out Of Tree provider implements the interface defined at MCM OOT driver.

Fundamental Design Principles:

Following are the basic principles kept in mind while developing the external plugin.

  • Communication between this Machine Controller (MC) and Machine Controller Manager (MCM) is achieved using the Kubernetes native declarative approach.
  • Machine Controller (MC) behaves as the controller used to interact with the cloud provider AWS and manage the VMs corresponding to the machine objects.
  • Machine Controller Manager (MCM) deals with higher level objects such as machine-set and machine-deployment objects.

Support for a new provider

  • Steps to be followed while implementing/testing a new provider are mentioned here

Testing the AWS OOT

  1. Open terminal pointing to $GOPATH/src/github.com/gardener. Clone this repository.

  2. Navigate to $GOPATH/src/github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws.

    • In the MAKEFILE make sure $TARGET_KUBECONFIG points to the cluster where you wish to manage machines. $CONTROL_NAMESPACE represents the namespaces where MCM is looking for machine CR objects, and $CONTROL_KUBECONFIG points to the cluster which holds these machine CRs.
    • Run the machine controller (driver) using the command below.
      make start
  3. On the second terminal pointing to $GOPATH/src/github.com/gardener,

    • Clone the latest MCM code
      git clone git@github.com:gardener/machine-controller-manager.git
    • Navigate to the newly created directory.
      cd machine-controller-manager
    • Deploy the required CRDs from the machine-controller-manager repo,
      kubectl apply -f kubernetes/crds.yaml
    • Run the machine-controller-manager in the cmi-client branch
      make start
  4. On the third terminal pointing to $GOPATH/src/github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-aws

    • Fill in the object files given below and deploy them as described below.
    • Deploy the machine-class
      kubectl apply -f kubernetes/machine-class.yaml
    • Deploy the kubernetes secret if required.
      kubectl apply -f kubernetes/secret.yaml
    • Deploy the machine object and make sure it joins the cluster successfully.
      kubectl apply -f kubernetes/machine.yaml
    • Once machine joins, you can test by deploying a machine-deployment.
    • Deploy the machine-deployment object and make sure it joins the cluster successfully.
      kubectl apply -f kubernetes/machine-deployment.yaml
    • Make sure to delete both the machine and machine-deployment object after use.
      kubectl delete -f kubernetes/machine.yaml
      kubectl delete -f kubernetes/machine-deployment.yaml