Deploy k8gb on MS Azure

[jkremser]

Replicate our steps described in local setup on MS Azure's AKS. Including the

• make test-failover
• make test-round-robin
  (the concepts captured by these Makefile targets)

Deliverables:
pull-request with the results describing the:

• reproduction steps (bash, makefile or markdown)
• issues that had to be solved in order to achieve this (platform specifics)
• all the steps that were necessary to make in the Azure web ui as well as the az aks ... CLI invocations

NOTE: the files should land somewhere under /docs/platforms/azure/*

You can use the free tier offering on AKS.

If you need advice, we are on Slack.

[ManishS6]

@jkremser I would like to work on this.
Please assign this task to me.

[ManishS6]

@ytsarev on it.

[dmeytin]

@ytsarev, @ManishS6, any news on this issue?

[ytsarev]

@dmeytin nope, are you interested in k8gb on Azure?

CC: @somaritane

[somaritane]

@ytsarev thanks for upvoting ;)
@dmeytin since we're using ExternalDNS to communicate with DNS providers, k8gb "should just work" with Azure DNS,
but we wanted to test E2E, hence were asking for help :)
My free Azure tier trial is over, have to find a workaround...
If you have access and are willing to check with our assistance, you're more than welcome.

[ytsarev]

@somaritane while conceptually you are right, I guess we still need to extend the helm templates with azure related edgedns provider configuration similar to NS1 and Route53 before we can test anythng

[somaritane]

@ytsarev yes, that too

[dmeytin]

In addition to integration with Azure Traffic Manager (the azure alternative for Route53) the default cross-region communication will be slow. There is a need to make advanced configuration using Vnet service endpoints.

[sebader]

I'd also be interested to see this running on Azure :)

[dmeytin]

Any concrete plans to support Azure implementation?

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[sebader]

I've started to play around with it today. Still some way to go but if I get it to work, I'll create a PR

[dmeytin]

Awesome!

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[somaritane]

I've started to play around with it today. Still some way to go but if I get it to work, I'll create a PR

@sebader, thanks a lot for your interest and assistance! Feel free to ask any related questions, happy to help!

We're also available on CNCF Slack https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C021P656HGB

[sebader]

As discussed on Slack, this is currently blocked by missing support in external-dns for NS records on Azure DNS:
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns#2826

[dmeytin]

Maybe we can solve it using Azure Traffic Manager?

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 3:32 PM Sebastian ***@***.***> wrote: As discussed on Slack, this is currently blocked by missing support in external-dns for NS records on Azure DNS: kubernetes-sigs/external-dns#2826 <kubernetes-sigs/external-dns#2826> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#642 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACGJ2TWCQDDYA23GGOYKWTDVQBQG5ANCNFSM5FL2MODA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[sebader]

Maybe we can solve it using Azure Traffic Manager?

well, you could build an entire solution with Traffic Manager, without the need for k8gb ;-) But the idea of k8gb is that it is an actual alternative for something like ATM

[dmeytin]

ATM is unaware whether a certain service is deployed on cluster-A or cluster-B. k8gb is service aware in opposite to ATM.

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 at 15:58 Sebastian ***@***.***> wrote: Maybe we can solve it using Azure Traffic Manager? well, you could build an entire solution with Traffic Manager, without the need for k8gb ;-) But the idea of k8gb is that it is an actual alternative for something like ATM — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#642 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACGJ2TQVSGNU75EW5TD2JOTVQBTJDANCNFSM5FL2MODA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[ytsarev]

The experiment of k8gb on azure was performed and demoed by @infbase at KubeCon EU 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U46hlF0Z3xs Great stuff :) Closing this issue