cluster-deploy-KIND.md

Edge Conductor Tool: How to Deploy KIND Cluster

This document is about how to config and run Edge Conductor tool to deploy a KIND cluster.

NOTE: KIND is not intended for production use.

Preparation

Follow HW Requirements for Edge Conductor Day-0 Host and OS and System Requirements for Edge Conductor Day-0 Host to prepare the Day-0 host hardware and software.

NOTE: For each KIND node, 2 CPU cores and 2 gigabytes (GB) memory are needed additionally.

Follow Build-and-Install-Edge-Conductor-Tool to build and install Edge Conductor tool. Enter _workspace folder to run Edge Conductor tool.

Edge Conductor Kit for KIND

An example of Edge Conductor Kit for KIND is under:

kit/
└── kind.yml

We will use this Edge Conductor Kit to deploy the KIND cluster in this document.

For more details of the Edge Conductor Kit, check the Example of KIND Kit.yml

Custom Config

Modify the Edge Conductor Kit config file(kit/kind.yml) following Edge Conductor Configurations | Edge Conductor Kit Introduction, which is a mandatory parameter for "conductor init".

Init Edge Conductor Environment

Run the following commands to initialize the Edge Conductor environment:

./conductor init -c kit/kind.yml

Build and Deploy KIND Cluster

Run the following commands to build and deploy KIND cluster:

./conductor cluster build
./conductor cluster deploy

The kubeconfig will be copied to the default path ~/.kube/config.

Check the KIND Cluster

Install the kubectl tool (v1.20.0) to interact with the target cluster.

kubectl get nodes

Continue to Deploy Services

To build and deploy the services, enter the commands:

./conductor service build
./conductor service deploy

Use --kubeconfig to specify the kubeconfig if you don't want to use the default config file from ~/.kube/config.

Remove the KIND cluster

To remove the KIND cluster, enter the command:

./conductor cluster remove

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