Opulence

White-glove service for .NET Core and Kubernetes

What Opulence can do:

• Automatically build Docker images by following .NET's conventions.
• Generate manifests for Kubenetes (static deployments/services, Helm Charts, OAM).
• Express relationships and dependencies between services. (in progress)
• Make secret management and service discovery easy. (in progress)
• Let you configure all of this with C# code! (.csx)

Current Status

Opulence is an experiment I've been working on in my spare time. Right now it's got a feature set based on my interests :)

Installing dotnet-opulence

First, install the .NET Core 3.1 SDK (or newer if you are viewing this in the far future).

Then... run the following command with the version of the latest build. Unfortunately dotnet tool install requires you to specify the exact package version.

dotnet tool install -g --add-source https://f.feedz.io/opulence/opulence/nuget/index.json --version "0.1.*" Opulence.dotnet-opulence

opulence --version
> 0.1.27-alpha+feada8b0f8

You can find the latest version here.

Getting started

You will need:

• A Container Registry.
• A Kubernetes Cluster - and the permissions to manage it.

This tutorial series for Azure (AKS + ACR) will get you set up with everything you need.

Step 0

Create a .net core web application:

dotnet new web
dotnet new sln
dotnet sln add .
dotnet build

The project should be able to build without errors.

note: Opulence currently works best with a solution file, even if you're using a single project.

Step 1

Initialize Opulence:

opulence init

This will prompt you for various options.

• Choose your solution root as the root directory.
• Enter your container registry when prompted for the registry.
• Choose to initialize the list of services from the solution file.

Example:

White-Glove service for .NET and Kubernetes...
Someone will be right with you!

💰 Looking For Existing Config...
    Not Found
💰 Looking For .sln File...
    Use '/Users/ryan/exampleapp' as Root? (y/n): y
💰 Writing Opulence.csx ...
    Enter the Container Registry (ex: 'example.azurecr.io' for Azure or 'example' for dockerhub): rynowak
    Use solution file '/Users/ryan/exampleapp/exampleapp.sln' to initialize services? (y/n): y
    Initialized Opulence Config at '/Users/ryan/exampleapp/Opulence.csx'.

Opulence will generate an Opulence.csx in the directory you chose as the root.

Opulence.csx is intended to be checked in to source control and maintained along with your source code.

Step 2

Deploy to Kubernetes:

opulence deploy

Opulence will:

• Create a docker image.
• Push the docker image to your repository.
• Generate a Kubernetes Deployment and Service.
• Apply the generated Deployment and Service to your current Kubernetes context.

Step 3

Test it out!

kubectl get pods

NAME                                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
exampleapp-7588f78b7c-hcbn8                              1/1     Running   0          2m36s

This shows that your app has been deployed!

In this case exampleapp is the name of the service that was deployed. Replace the value exampleapp with your own app's name in the following command.

kubectl port-forward svc/exampleapp 5000:80

Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:5000 -> 80
Forwarding from [::1]:5000 -> 80

This will open a local port (5000) that forwards to your application running in Kubernetes. Visit http://localhost:5000 in a browser to see it running.

When you're done, hit ctrl+c to stop port-forwarding.

Getting started with OAM

This section requires deploying Rudr to your Kubernetes cluster. See Rudr's repo for the latest instructions using Rudr.

Follow the normal Getting started instructions up to step 1.

Open Opulence.csx in your editor of choice, and change the deployment kind to DeploymentKind.Oam.

public class Application
{
    public ApplicationGlobals Globals { get; } = new ApplicationGlobals()
    {
        DeploymentKind = DeploymentKind.Oam,
        Registry = new ContainerRegistry("example.azurecr.io"),
    };

    ...
}

Now deploy:

opulence deploy

Opulence will:

• Create a docker image.
• Push the docker image to your repository.
• Generate an OAM Component and ApplicationConfiguration.
• Apply the generated Component and ApplicationConfiguration to your current Kubernetes context.