istio

Ansible Role: istio

An Ansible Role that deploys Istio (https://istio.io) in an OpenShift cluster running locally, generally created by using Minishift (https://www.openshift.org/minishift). This Role performs the following tasks:

Check if OpenShift is running locally.
Downloads and installs the specified version or latest of Istio.
Uses the latest oc binary from ~/.minishift/cache/oc/<VERSION>/<OS>/ and istioctl from downloaded Istio binary.

Prerequisites

Ansible 2.3+
Prior to running the role, clear your terminal session of any DOCKER* environment variables.
sudo access in your host is required for installing istioctl (optional).
OpenShift running locally. See https://galaxy.ansible.com/chilcano/minishift to get OpenShift running in a VM.

Observations

The Istio Ansible Role has been tested with:

minishift v1.11.0+4459917
kubernetes 3.7
istio 0.2.7
VirtualBox 5.1.30
macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.2 (17C88)

Default Role variables

The default variables are in defaults/main.yml.

Example Playbook

See sample-1-istio.yml file for an example.

$ cat sample-1-istio.yml

---
- name: Install Istio.
  hosts: Pisc0
  connection: local
  gather_facts: yes
  vars:
    vm: openshift0

  roles:
    - role: chilcano.istio
      istio:
        action_to_trigger: clean  # [ deploy | clean ]
        action:
          deploy:
            istioctl: true    # istioctl
            core: true        # core components
            addons: true      # prometheus, graphana, zipkin, servicegraph
            sample_apps: true # bookinfo
        minishift:
          profile: "{{ vm }}"
        openshift:
          project: istio-system    # default
          hostname: "{{ vm }}"
          admin_usr: "system:admin"
          admin_pwd: anypassword
          istio_usr: developer
          istio_pwd: anypassword
        repo:
          #release_tag_name: ""   # latest
          release_tag_name: "0.2.7"
          #release_tag_name: "0.2.6"

Using the Ansible Role

Install the role:

$ sudo ansible-galaxy install chilcano.istio

Copy the playbook from your roles path to the current working directory:

$ cp ${ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH}/chilcano.istio/sample-1-istio.yml .

Create an inventory file

$ echo $(hostname) > ./inventory

Run the playbook:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory --ask-become-pass sample-1-istio.yml

When Playbook execution has been finished, check if all Pods, Services, etc. have been deployed and running.

$ eval $(minishift oc-env)

$ oc project bookinfo

$ oc status
In project bookinfo on server https://192.168.99.100:8443

svc/details - 172.30.118.151:9080
  pod/details-v1-1464079269-wxfl5 runs istio/examples-bookinfo-details-v1:0.2.3, docker.io/istio/proxy_debug:0.2.7

svc/productpage - 172.30.163.171:9080
  pod/productpage-v1-3915871613-p2cp6 runs istio/examples-bookinfo-productpage-v1:0.2.3, docker.io/istio/proxy_debug:0.2.7

svc/ratings - 172.30.13.63:9080
  pod/ratings-v1-327106889-rvqpv runs istio/examples-bookinfo-ratings-v1:0.2.3, docker.io/istio/proxy_debug:0.2.7

svc/reviews - 172.30.233.119:9080
  pod/reviews-v1-3806695627-2xkg6 runs istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1:0.2.3, docker.io/istio/proxy_debug:0.2.7
  pod/reviews-v2-3096629009-2cfht runs istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v2:0.2.3, docker.io/istio/proxy_debug:0.2.7
  pod/reviews-v3-1994447391-ws74d runs istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v3:0.2.3, docker.io/istio/proxy_debug:0.2.7

View details with 'oc describe <resource>/<name>' or list everything with 'oc get all'.

$ oc get pods
NAME                              READY     STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-1464079269-wxfl5       0/2       Init:0/2   0          1m
productpage-v1-3915871613-p2cp6   0/2       Init:0/2   0          1m
ratings-v1-327106889-rvqpv        0/2       Init:0/2   0          1m
reviews-v1-3806695627-2xkg6       0/2       Init:0/2   0          1m
reviews-v2-3096629009-2cfht       0/2       Init:0/2   0          1m
reviews-v3-1994447391-ws74d       0/2       Init:0/2   0          1m

$ oc get pods
NAME                              READY     STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-1464079269-wxfl5       0/2       Init:1/2   0          2m
productpage-v1-3915871613-p2cp6   0/2       Init:1/2   0          2m
ratings-v1-327106889-rvqpv        0/2       Init:1/2   0          2m
reviews-v1-3806695627-2xkg6       0/2       Init:1/2   0          2m
reviews-v2-3096629009-2cfht       0/2       Init:1/2   0          2m
reviews-v3-1994447391-ws74d       0/2       Init:1/2   0          2m

$ oc get pods
NAME                              READY     STATUS            RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-1464079269-wxfl5       0/2       PodInitializing   0          3m
productpage-v1-3915871613-p2cp6   0/2       PodInitializing   0          3m
ratings-v1-327106889-rvqpv        0/2       PodInitializing   0          3m
reviews-v1-3806695627-2xkg6       0/2       PodInitializing   0          3m
reviews-v2-3096629009-2cfht       0/2       PodInitializing   0          3m
reviews-v3-1994447391-ws74d       0/2       PodInitializing   0          3m

$ oc get pods
NAME                              READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-1464079269-wxfl5       2/2       Running   0          7m
productpage-v1-3915871613-p2cp6   2/2       Running   0          7m
ratings-v1-327106889-rvqpv        2/2       Running   0          7m
reviews-v1-3806695627-2xkg6       2/2       Running   0          7m
reviews-v2-3096629009-2cfht       2/2       Running   0          7m
reviews-v3-1994447391-ws74d       2/2       Running   0          7m

Finally you will see Istio and BookInfo App running in your OpenShift Cluster. The Init:0/2, Init:1/2 and ``PodInitializing` mean that BookInfo App is initializing/starting and it isn't ready to use. All pictures below were captured from Weave Scope App. It's a tool to manage, monitor and visualize your OpenShift Cluster. If you want to install it, you can use the Weave Scope Ansible Role that I've created for you (https://github.com/chilcano/ansible-role-weave-scope).