openfaas-operator

openfaas-operator

OpenFaaS Kubernetes Operator

Deploy

Deploy OpenFaaS with faas-netes:

git clone https://github.com/openfaas/faas-netes
cd faas-netes
kubectl apply -f ./namespaces.yml,./yaml

Deploy the Gateway with openfaas-operator sidecar in openfaas namespace:

# CRD
kubectl apply -f artifacts/operator-crd.yaml
# RBAC
kubectl apply -f artifacts/operator-rbac.yaml
# Deployment (use operator-armhf.yaml for faas-netes/yaml_armhf)
kubectl apply -f artifacts/operator-amd64.yaml
# Delete faas-netes
kubectl -n openfaas delete deployment faas-netesd
kubectl -n openfaas delete svc faas-netesd

Deploy a function with kubectl:

kubectl -n openfaas-fn apply -f ./artifacts/nodeinfo.yaml

On armhf use:

kubectl -n openfaas-fn apply -f ./artifacts/figlet-armhf.yaml

List functions, services, deployments and pods:

kubectl -n openfaas-fn get functions
kubectl -n openfaas-fn get all

Deploy a function with secrets:

kubectl -n openfaas-fn create secret generic faas-token --from-literal=faas-token=token
kubectl -n openfaas-fn create secret generic faas-key --from-literal=faas-key=key
kubectl -n openfaas-fn apply -f ./artifacts/gofast.yaml

Test that secrets are available inside the gofast pod:

kubectl -n openfaas-fn exec -it gofast-84fd464784-sd5ml -- sh

~ $ cat /var/openfaas/faas-key 
key

~ $ cat /var/openfaas/faas-token 
token

Test that node selectors work on GKE by adding the following to gofast.yaml:

  constraints:
    - "cloud.google.com/gke-nodepool=default-pool"

Apply the function and check the deployment specs with:

kubectl -n openfaas-fn describe deployment gofast

Local run

Create OpenFaaS CRD:

$ kubectl apply -f artifacts/operator-crd.yaml

Start OpenFaaS controller (assumes you have a working kubeconfig on the machine):

$ go build \
  && ./openfaas-operator -kubeconfig=$HOME/.kube/config -logtostderr=true -v=4

With go run

$ go run *.go -kubeconfig=$HOME/.kube/config -logtostderr=true

To use an alternative port set the port environmental variable to another value.

Create a function:

$ kubectl apply -f artifacts/nodeinfo.yaml

Check if nodeinfo deployment and service were created through the CRD:

$ kubectl get deployment nodeinfo
$ kubectl get service nodeinfo

Test if nodeinfo service can access the pods:

$ kubectl run -it --rm --restart=Never curl --image=byrnedo/alpine-curl --command -- sh
/ # curl -d 'verbose' http://nodeinfo.default:8080

Delete nodeinfo function:

kubectl delete -f artifacts/nodeinfo.yaml 

Check if nodeinfo pods, rc, deployment and service were removed:

kubectl get all

API calls

Create or update a function:

curl -d '{"service":"nodeinfo","image":"functions/nodeinfo:burner","envProcess":"node main.js","labels":{"com.openfaas.scale.min":"2","com.openfaas.scale.max":"15"},"environment":{"output":"verbose","debug":"true"}}' -X POST  http://localhost:8081/system/functions

List functions:

curl -s http://localhost:8081/system/functions | jq .

Scale PODs up/down:

curl -d '{"serviceName":"nodeinfo", "replicas": 3}' -X POST http://localhost:8081/system/scale-function/nodeinfo

Get available replicas:

curl -s http://localhost:8081/system/function/nodeinfo | jq .availableReplicas

Remove function:

curl -d '{"functionName":"nodeinfo"}' -X DELETE http://localhost:8081/system/functions

Logging

Verbosity levels:

• -v=0 CRUD actions via API and Controller including errors
• -v=2 function call duration (Proxy API)
• -v=4 Kubernetes informers events (highly verbose)

Instrumentation

Prometheus route:

curl http://localhost:8081/metrics

Profiling is disabled by default, to enable it set pprof environment variable to true.

Pprof web UI can be access at http://localhost:8081/debug/pprof/. The goroutine, heap and threadcreate profilers are enabled along with the full goroutine stack dump.

Run the heap profiler:

go tool pprof goprofex http://localhost:8081/debug/pprof/heap

Run the goroutine profiler:

go tool pprof goprofex http://localhost:8081/debug/pprof/goroutine