Weave Cloud Istio demo

Prerequisites:

• GKE and CloudDNS
• Helm and Tiller
• Istio

Setup Istio with Let’s Encrypt wildcard certs on Google Cloud by following this guide.

Install Flagger

Flagger is a Kubernetes operator that automates the promotion of canary deployments
using Istio routing for traffic shifting and Prometheus metrics for canary analysis.

Deploy Flagger and Grafana in the istio-system namespace using Helm:

helm repo add flagger https://flagger.app
helm upgrade -i flagger flagger/flagger \
--namespace=istio-system \
--set metricsServer=http://prometheus.istio-system:9090 \
--set controlLoopInterval=1m
helm upgrade -i flagger-grafana flagger/grafana \
--namespace=istio-system

Install Flux

Prerequisites:

• Create a new branch from master
• Edit the workloads/canary.yaml and change the podinfo.example.com with your own domain
• Push the changes to your branch

Before installing Flux scale down the weave agent anf flux deployments that are running in weave namespace:

kubectl -n weave scale --replicas=0 deployment/weave-agent
kubectl -n weave scale --replicas=0 deployment/weave-flux-agent

Add the weaveworks repo:

helm repo add weaveworks https://weaveworks.github.io/flux

Install Flux using Helm (make sure to use a unique Flux git tag):

export GIT_BRANCH=your-branch
export GIT_TAG=your-git-tag
export WC_TOKEN=your-weave-token
helm upgrade -i flux weaveworks/flux \
--namespace flux \
--set helmOperator.create=true \
--set rbac.create=true \
--set registry.pollInterval=30s \
--set registry.cacheExpiry=24h \
--set git.pollInterval=2m \
--set git.url=ssh://git@github.com/weaveworks-experiments/istio-demo \
--set git.branch=${GIT_BRANCH} \
--set git.label=${GIT_TAG} \
--set token=${WC_TOKEN}

At startup Flux generates a SSH key and logs the public key. Find the SSH public key with:

kubectl -n flux logs deployment/flux | grep identity.pub | cut -d '"' -f2

In order to sync your cluster state with GitHub you need to copy the public key and create a deploy key
with write access on your GitHub repository. Go to Settings > Deploy keys click on Add deploy key, check
Allow write access, paste the Flux public key and click Add key.

GitOps: Istio canary deployments

Canary demo:

• Open the podinfo URL and it should display the 1.3.0 version
• In Weave Cloud Deploy do a manual release of quay.io/stefanprodan/podinfo:1.3.1
• The podinfo UI will automatically refresh and display the 1.3.1 version

Automated demo:

• In Weave Cloud Deploy enable automation for test:deployment/podinfo
• Create a Flux filter of type semver ~1.3