Kubernetes Operators: Operating Cloud Native services at scale

A presentation at DevOpsCon Online in June 2020 in by Horacio Gonzalez

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Kubernetes Operators: Operating Cloud Native services at scale Horacio Gonzalez 2020-06-30

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Who are we? Introducing myself and introducing OVH OVHcloud

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Horacio Gonzalez @LostInBrittany Spaniard lost in Brittany, developer, dreamer and all-around geek Flutter

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OVHcloud: A Global Leader 200k Private cloud VMs running 1 Dedicated IaaS Europe 30 Datacenters Own 20Tbps Hosting capacity : 1.3M Physical Servers 360k Servers already deployed Netwok with 35 PoPs

1.3M Customers in 138 Countries

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OVHcloud: 4 Universes of Products WebCloud Domain / Email Domain names, DNS, SSL, Redirect Email, Open-Xchange, Exchange Baremetal Cloud VM General Purpose Baremetal SuperPlan T2 >20e Virtualization T3 >80e Storage PaaS for Web Mutu, CloudWeb Compute Standalone, Cluster Game Collaborative Tools, NextCloud Database T4 >300e Bigdata T5 >600e HCI Plesk, CPanel AI PaaS with Platform.sh VDI Cloud Game Public Cloud 12KVA /32KVA Hosted Private Cloud K8S, IA IaaS PaaS for DevOps Storage File, Block, Object, Archive Databases SQL, noSQL, Messaging, Dashboard Network Virtual servers VPS, Dedicated Server Network VPS aaS pCC DC SaaS CRM, Billing, Payment, Stats IP FO, NAT, LB, VPN, Router, DNS, DHCP, TCP/SSL Offload Virtuozzo Cloud Security Wordpress, Magento, Prestashop Wholesales Hosted Private Cloud IAM, MFA, Encrypt, KMS IT Integrators, Cloud Storage, VMware SDDC, vSAN 1AZ / 2AZ vCD, Tanzu, Horizon, DBaaS, DRaaS Nutanix HCI 1AZ / 2AZ, Databases, DRaaS, VDI OpenStack IAM, Compute (VM, K8S) Stortage, Network, Databases Storage Ontap Select, Nutanix File OpenIO, MinIO, CEPH Zerto, Veeam, Atempo AI ElementAI, HuggingFace, Deepopmatic, Systran, EarthCube Bigdata / Analitics / ML Cloudera over S3, Dataiku, Saagie, Tableau, MarketPlace CDN, Database, ISV, WebHosting Support, Managed High Intensive CPU/GPU, Support Basic Encrypt Support thought Partners KMS, HSM Managed services Encrypt (SGX, Network, Storage) IA, DL Hybrid Cloud Standard Tools for AI, AI Studio, vRack Connect, Edge-DC, Private DC IA IaaS, Hosting API AI Dell, HP, Cisco, OCP, MultiCloud Bigdata, ML, Analytics Datalake, ML, Dashboard Secured Cloud GOV, FinTech, Retail, HealtCare

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OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes You use it, we operate it

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Built over our Openstack based Public Cloud

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Some interesting features

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Operating Kubernetes Easier said than done

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Operating microservices? Are you sure you want to operate them by hand?

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Taming microservices with Kubernetes

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Declarative infrastructure

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Desired State Management

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Beyond a simple deployment Everything is good now, isn’t it?

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Complex deployments

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Complex deployments

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Helm Charts are configuration Operating is more than installs & upgrades

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Kubernetes is about automation How about automating human operators?

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Kubernetes Controllers Keeping an eye on the resources

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A control loop They watch the state of the cluster, and make or request changes where needed

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A reconcile loop Strives to reconcile current state and desired state

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Custom Resource Definitions Extending Kubernetes API

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Extending Kubernetes API By defining new types of resources

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Kubernetes Operator Automating operations

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What’s a Kubernetes Operator?

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Example: databases Things like adding an instance to a pool, doing a backup, sharding…

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Knowledge encoded in CRDs and Controllers

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Custom Controllers for Custom Resources Operators implement and manage Custom Resources using custom reconciliation logic

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Operator Capability Model Gauging the operator maturity

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How to write an Operator

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Kubebuilder SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs

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The Operator Framework Open source framework to accelerate the development of an Operator

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Operator SDK Three different ways to build an Operator

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Operator SDK and Capability Model

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Operator Lifecycle Manager

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OperatorHub.io

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Harbor Operator Managing private registries at scale

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We wanted to build a new product OVHcloud Managed Private Registry

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Looking at the Open Source world Two main alternatives around Docker Registry

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Harbor has more community traction Two main alternatives

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Harbor has lots of components

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But it has a Helm Chart It should be easy to install, isn’t it? $ helm install harbor What about configuration? Installing a 200 GB K8s volume? Nginx pods for routing requests? One DB instance per customer? Managing pods all around the cluster?

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We wanted a Managed Private Registry

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Using the platform Kubernetes tooling to the rescue

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Let’s automate it We needed an operator… and there wasn’t any

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Working with the community Harbor community also needed the operator

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The challenge: reconciliation loop

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The Harbor Operator

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It’s Open Source https://github.com/goharbor/harbor-operator

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LoadBalancer Operator A managed LoadBalancer at scale

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Load Balancer: a critical cog Cornerstone of any Cloud Provider’s infrastructure

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Our legacy Load Balancer stack ● Excellent performances ○ ○ Built on bare metal servers + BGP Custom made servers tuned for network traffic ● Carry the TLS termination ○ SSL / LetsEncrypt ● Not cloud ready ○ ○ Piloted by configuration files Long configuration loading time ● Custom made hardware ○ ○ Slower to build Needs to be deployed on 30 datacenters

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Our needs for a new Load Balancer ● Supporting mass update ● Quickly reconfigurable ● Available anywhere quickly ● Easily operable ● Integrated into our Public Cloud

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Building it on Kubernetes

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A Load Balancer in a pod

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Orchestrating one million LBs… kubectl apply -f lb is not an option!

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We needed an Operator

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Network: multus-cni Attaching multiple network interfaces to pods: Bridge + Host-local

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Adding network interfaces on the fly Using annotations to add interfaces to pod

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Config management Using Config Map How to detect a change on Config Map files? Watch + Trigger? More information on Config Map working martensson.io/go-fsnotify-and-kubernetes-configmaps

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A Controller to watch and trigger

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Observability Tried Prometheus Operator, limited to one container per pod Switched to Warp 10 with Beamium Operator

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That’s all, folks! Thank you all!