Description of the Environment for the Exercise¶

• A new version of the application cafeapp has been deployed.

• That application has been deployed into the namespace lab2-cafeapp.

• That application has two versions of the service coffee:

  • service coffee-v1

  • service coffee-v2

Objectives¶

• Deploy the setup below by using the field splits available in the CRD VirtualServer

  • Pass 80% of requests to the coffee-v1

  • Pass the remaining 20% to coffee-v2

Check the Environment is up and running¶

• Check the pods coffee-v1 and coffee-v2 are correctly deployed:

input:

kubectl get pods -n lab2-cafeapp

output:

    NAME                            READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    coffee-v1-6f4b79b975-4gqzg      1/1     Running   0          140m
    coffee-v1-6f4b79b975-5vmrd      1/1     Running   0          140m
    coffee-v2-75869cf7ff-4jxc2      1/1     Running   0          140m
    coffee-v2-67499ff985-7h88c      1/1     Running   0          140m
    tea-v1-6fb46d899f-k2sfc         1/1     Running   0          140m
    tea-v1-6fb46d899f-df5ge         1/1     Running   0          140m

• Check the services coffee-v1 and coffee-v2 are correctly deployed:

input:

kubectl get services -n lab2-cafeapp

output:

    NAME            TYPE        CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
    coffee-v1       ClusterIP   10.200.0.100   <none>        80/TCP    63m
    coffee-v2       ClusterIP   10.200.0.32    <none>        80/TCP    9m57s
    tea-v1          ClusterIP   10.200.0.51    <none>        80/TCP    63m

Step 1: Create a new manifest for the 80/20 traffic splitting¶

• Create/Edit a new file named cafe-virtual-server-lab2-ex3.yaml

• Copy/past the manifest below into the file cafe-virtual-server-lab2-ex3.yaml

• REPLACE {{SITE_ID}} in the field host by your allocated site ID before saving and applying cafe-virtual-server-lab2-ex1.yaml.

apiVersion: k8s.nginx.org/v1
kind: VirtualServer
metadata:
  name: cafeapp
  namespace: lab2-cafeapp
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx-external
  host: cafeapp{{SITE_ID}}.f5app.dev
  tls:
    secret: cafeapp-secret-tls
    redirect:
      enable: true
      code: 301
      basedOn: scheme
  upstreams:
  - name: coffee-v1
    service: coffee-v1
    port: 80
  - name: coffee-v2
    service: coffee-v2
    port: 80
  routes:
  - path: /coffee
    splits:
    - weight: 80
      action:
        pass: coffee-v1
    - weight: 20
      action:
        pass: coffee-v2

Step 2: Deploy the new manifest¶

input:

kubectl apply -f cafe-virtual-server-lab2-ex3.yaml

output:

virtualserver.k8s.nginx.org/cafeapp configured

Step 3: Check the status of the VirtualServer Resource¶

input:

kubectl describe virtualserver cafeapp -n lab2-cafeapp

output:

Events:
  Type    Reason          Age   From                      Message
  ----    ------          ----  ----                      -------
  Normal  AddedOrUpdated  5s    nginx-ingress-controller  Configuration for lab2-cafeapp/app-cafe was added or updated

Step 4: Test the setup¶

• Send 10 connections with curl.

• REPLACE {{SITE_ID}} by your allocated SITE ID in the curl command below.

curl https://cafeapp{{SITE_ID}}.f5app.dev/coffee

• Check that you have around:

  • 8 connections to Server name: coffee-v1

  • 2 connections to Server name: coffee-v2

Capture The Flag

3.1 What is the name of the field (in the specification of the VirtualServer CRD) which is used to setup canary or A/B testing? | Tips: here

3.2 What is the name of the field which allow to define a percentage of traffic as part of the splits configuration? | Tips: here