vcluster

Porter VCluster Mixin

This plugin enables the creation of virtual Kubernetes clusters that run within regular namespaces of a parent cluster.

The mixin enables the use of vcluster from vcluster.com. The plugin supports: -

• Create
• Update
• Delete

funcions on the virtual cluters.

The mixin has been tested to work with both the porter cli & porter operator for kubernetes.

Example porter.yaml step

parameters:
  - name: kubeconfig
    description: "Parent k8s cluster config"
    type: file
    path: /root/.kube/config
    default: ""
  - name: vcluster
    description: "Name of the vcluster to create"
    type: string
    default: "vcluster-1"
    
mixins:
  - vcluster

install:
  - vcluster:
      description: "Create new vcluster"
      create:
        name: "{{ bundle.parameters.vcluster }}"
        namespace: "{{ bundle.parameters.vcluster }}"
        createNamespace: true
        expose: true
        connect: true
        extraConfig: config/vcluster/values.yaml

These are all the configuration items you need to create a new vcluster.

Enable the mixin

To enable the vcluster mixin and copiy the mixin to the porter bundle.

mixins:
  - vcluster

Provision a new vcluster

Use the parter install: step to provision a new vcluster: -

install:
  - vcluster:
      description: "Create new vcluster"
      create:

and provide the necessary arguments to the intall/create step: -

        name: "{{ bundle.parameters.vcluster }}"
        namespace: "{{ bundle.parameters.vcluster }}"
        createNamespace: true
        expose: true
        connect: true
        extraConfig: config/vcluster/values.yaml

In the example above the vlcuster name & namespace are set to the value of a bundle parameter called vcluster shown above as "{{ bundle.parameters.vcluster }}".

The following two parameters are needed to successfully create a new vcluster.

parameters:
  - name: kubeconfig
    description: "Parent k8s cluster config"
    type: file
    path: /root/.kube/config
    default: ""
  - name: vcluster
    description: "Name of the vcluster to create"
    type: string
    default: "vcluster-1"

and the kube config of the target host cluster is provided as an additional porter bundle parameter kubeconfig.

Extra Config

vcluster allows for control of certain aspects of the vcluster. For more information on these settings see here.

rbac:
  clusterRole:
    create: true

syncer:
  extraArgs: ["--fake-nodes=false", "--sync-all-nodes", "--enable-storage-classes", "--fake-persistent-volumes" ]

Porter CLI Bundle Invocation

To invoke a porter bundle called porter-vcluster from the cli the following can be used: -

porter install porter-vcluster --param kubeconfig=$HOME/.kube/config --param vcluster=vcluster-1

Porter Operator Bundle Invocation

To invoke a porter bundle called porter-vcluster from the operator the following CR can be used: -

apiVersion: porter.sh/v1
kind: Installation
metadata:
  labels:
    installVersion: "v0.38.7"
  namespace: porter-operator-namespace
  name: porter-vcluster
spec:
  reference: "imagerepoitory/porter-vcluster:tag"
  action: "install"
  parameters:
    vcluster: vcluster-1
    kubeconfig: YXBpVmVyc2lvbjogdjEKa2luZDo ...

• NOTE: The kubeconfig parameter is a base64 encoded kube config yaml for the host cluster and not the name of a file.