sample-apiserver
Demonstration of how to use the k8s.io/apiserver library to build a functional API server.
Note: go-get or vendor this package as k8s.io/sample-apiserver
.
Purpose
You may use this code if you want to build an Extension API Server to use with API Aggregation, or to build a stand-alone Kubernetes-style API server.
However, consider two other options:
- CRDs: if you just want to add a resource to your kubernetes cluster, then consider using Custom Resource Definition a.k.a CRDs. They require less coding and rebasing. Read about the differences between Custom Resource Definitions vs Extension API Servers here.
- Apiserver-builder: If you want to build an Extension API server, consider using apiserver-builder instead of this repo. The Apiserver-builder is a complete framework for generating the apiserver, client libraries, and the installation program.
If you do decide to use this repository, then the recommended pattern is to fork this repository, modify it to add your types, and then periodically rebase your changes on top of this repo, to pick up improvements and bug fixes to the apiserver.
Compatibility
HEAD of this repo will match HEAD of k8s.io/apiserver, k8s.io/apimachinery, and k8s.io/client-go.
Where does it come from?
sample-apiserver
is synced from https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver.
Code changes are made in that location, merged into k8s.io/kubernetes
and later synced here.
Fetch sample-apiserver and its dependencies
Like the rest of Kubernetes, sample-apiserver has used
godep and $GOPATH
for years and is
now adopting go 1.11 modules. There are thus two alternative ways to
go about fetching this demo and its dependencies.
Fetch with godep
When NOT using go 1.11 modules, you can use the following commands.
go get -d k8s.io/sample-apiserver
cd $GOPATH/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver # assuming your GOPATH has just one entry
godep restore
When using go 1.11 modules
When using go 1.11 modules (GO111MODULE=on
), issue the following
commands --- starting in whatever working directory you like.
git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/sample-apiserver.git
cd sample-apiserver
Note, however, that if you intend to
generate code then you will also need the
code-generator repo to exist in an old-style location. One easy way
to do this is to use the command go mod vendor
to create and
populate the vendor
directory.
A Note on kubernetes/kubernetes
If you are developing Kubernetes according to
https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/guide/github-workflow.md
then you already have a copy of this demo in
kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver
and its dependencies
--- including the code generator --- are in usable locations.
Normal Build and Deploy
Changes to the Types
If you change the API object type definitions in any of the
pkg/apis/.../types.go
files then you will need to update the files
generated from the type definitions. To do this, first
create the vendor directory if necessary
and then invoke hack/update-codegen.sh
with sample-apiserver
as
your current working directory; the script takes no arguments.
Authentication plugins
The normal build supports only a very spare selection of
authentication methods. There is a much larger set available in
https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go/tree/master/plugin/pkg/client/auth
. If you want your server to support one of those, such as oidc
,
then add an import of the appropriate package to
sample-apiserver/main.go
. Here is an example:
import _ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/oidc"
Alternatively you could add support for all of them, with an import like this:
import _ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth"
Build the Binary
With sample-apiserver
as your current working directory, issue the
following command:
CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -a -o artifacts/simple-image/kube-sample-apiserver
Build the Container Image
With sample-apiserver
as your current working directory, issue the
following commands with MYPREFIX
and MYTAG
replaced by something
suitable.
docker build -t MYPREFIX/kube-sample-apiserver:MYTAG ./artifacts/simple-image
docker push MYPREFIX/kube-sample-apiserver:MYTAG
Deploy into a Kubernetes Cluster
Edit artifacts/example/deployment.yaml
, updating the pod template's image
reference to match what you pushed and setting the imagePullPolicy
to something suitable. Then call:
kubectl apply -f artifacts/example
Running it stand-alone
During development it is helpful to run sample-apiserver stand-alone, i.e. without
a Kubernetes API server for authn/authz and without aggregation. This is possible, but needs
a couple of flags, keys and certs as described below. You will still need some kubeconfig,
e.g. ~/.kube/config
, but the Kubernetes cluster is not used for authn/z. A minikube or
hack/local-up-cluster.sh cluster will work.
Instead of trusting the aggregator inside kube-apiserver, the described setup uses local
client certificate based X.509 authentication and authorization. This means that the client
certificate is trusted by a CA and the passed certificate contains the group membership
to the system:masters
group. As we disable delegated authorization with --authorization-skip-lookup
,
only this superuser group is authorized.
-
First we need a CA to later sign the client certificate:
openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout ca.key -out ca.crt
-
Then we create a client cert signed by this CA for the user
development
in the superuser groupsystem:masters
:openssl req -out client.csr -new -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -keyout client.key -subj "/CN=development/O=system:masters" openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in client.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -set_serial 01 -sha256 -out client.crt
-
As curl requires client certificates in p12 format with password, do the conversion:
openssl pkcs12 -export -in ./client.crt -inkey ./client.key -out client.p12 -passout pass:password
-
With these keys and certs in-place, we start the server:
etcd & sample-apiserver --secure-port 8443 --etcd-servers http://127.0.0.1:2379 --v=7 \ --client-ca-file ca.crt \ --kubeconfig ~/.kube/config \ --authentication-kubeconfig ~/.kube/config \ --authorization-kubeconfig ~/.kube/config
The first kubeconfig is used for the shared informers to access Kubernetes resources. The second kubeconfig passed to
--authentication-kubeconfig
is used to satisfy the delegated authenticator. The third kubeconfig passed to--authorized-kubeconfig
is used to satisfy the delegated authorizer. Neither the authenticator, nor the authorizer will actually be used: due to--client-ca-file
, our development X.509 certificate is accepted and authenticates us assystem:masters
member.system:masters
is the superuser group such that delegated authorization is skipped. -
Use curl to access the server using the client certificate in p12 format for authentication:
curl -fv -k --cert-type P12 --cert client.p12:password \ https://localhost:8443/apis/wardle.example.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/flunders
Or use wget:
wget -O- --no-check-certificate \ --certificate client.crt --private-key client.key \ https://localhost:8443/apis/wardle.example.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/flunders
Note: Recent OSX versions broke client certs with curl. On Mac try
brew install httpie
and then:http --verify=no --cert client.crt --cert-key client.key \ https://localhost:8443/apis/wardle.example.com/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/flunders