# Running Development Environment in Kubernetes using Kind Cluster ## Start Kind Cluster Note: This environment has been tested on MacOS and Fedora with Docker. If you do not already have Kind, install it from: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/ Create Kind cluster config file ```yml kind: Cluster apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4 nodes: - role: control-plane extraMounts: - hostPath: /path/to/awx containerPath: /awx_devel extraPortMappings: - containerPort: 30080 hostPort: 30080 ``` Start Kind cluster ```bash kind create cluster --config kind-cluster.yaml ``` Verify AWX source tree is mounted in the kind-control-plane container ```bash docker exec -it kind-control-plane ls /awx_devel ``` ## Deploy the AWX Operator Clone the [awx-operator](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator). For the following playbooks to work, you will need to: ```bash pip install openshift ``` If you are not changing any code in the operator itself, git checkout the latest version from https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases, and then follow the instructions in the awx-operator [README](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator#basic-install). If making changes to the operator itself, run the following command in the root of the awx-operator repo. If not, continue to the next section. ### Building and Deploying a Custom AWX Operator Image ```bash # in awx-operator repo on the branch you want to use export IMAGE_TAG_BASE=quay.io//awx-operator make docker-build docker-push deploy ``` Check the operator deployment ```bash kubectl get deployments NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE awx-operator-controller-manager 1/1 1 1 16h ``` ## Deploy AWX into Kind Cluster using the AWX Operator If you have not made any changes to the AWX Dockerfile, run the following command. If you need to test out changes to the Dockerfile, see the "Custom AWX Development Image for Kubernetes" section below. In the root of awx-operator: ```bash ansible-playbook ansible/instantiate-awx-deployment.yml \ -e development_mode=yes \ -e image=ghcr.io/ansible/awx_kube_devel \ -e image_version=devel \ -e image_pull_policy=Always \ -e service_type=nodeport \ -e namespace=awx \ -e nodeport_port=30080 ``` Check the operator with the following commands: ```bash # Check the operator deployment kubectl get deployments NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE awx 1/1 1 1 16h awx-operator-controller-manager 1/1 1 1 16h kubectl get pods NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE awx-operator-controller-manager-b775bfc7c-fn995 2/2 Running 0 16h ``` If there are errors in the image pull, check that it is using the right tag. You can update the tag that it will pull by editing the deployment. ### Custom AWX Development Image for Kubernetes Set these environmental variables before starting: ```bash export DEV_DOCKER_TAG_BASE=quay.io/ export COMPOSE_TAG= ``` In the root of the AWX repo: ```bash make awx-kube-dev-build docker push $DEV_DOCKER_TAG_BASE/awx_kube_devel:$COMPOSE_TAG ``` In the root of awx-operator: ```bash ansible-playbook ansible/instantiate-awx-deployment.yml \ -e development_mode=yes \ -e image=$DEV_DOCKER_TAG_BASE/awx_kube_devel \ -e image_version=$COMPOSE_TAG \ -e image_pull_policy=Always \ -e service_type=nodeport \ -e namespace=$NAMESPACE ``` To iterate on changes to the Dockerfile, rebuild and push the image, then delete the AWX Pod. A new Pod will respawn with the latest revision. ## Accessing AWX To access via the web browser, use the following URL: ``` http://localhost:30080 ``` To retrieve your admin password ```bash kubectl get secrets awx-admin-password -o json | jq '.data.password' | xargs | base64 -d ``` To tail logs from the task containers ```bash kubectl logs -f deployment/awx-task -n awx -c awx-task ``` To tail logs from the web containers ```bash kubectl logs -f deployment/awx-web -n awx -c awx-web ``` NOTE: If there's multiple replica of the awx deployment you can use `stern` to tail logs from all replicas. For more information about `stern` check out https://github.com/wercker/stern. To exec in to the a instance of the awx-task container: ```bash kubectl exec -it deployment/awx -n awx -c awx-task bash ``` The application will live reload when files are edited just like in the development environment. Just like in the development environment, if the application totally crashes because files are invalid syntax or other fatal problem, you will get an error like "no python application" in the web container. Delete the whole control plane pod and wait until a new one spins up automatically. ```bash oc delete pod -l app.kubernetes.io/component=awx ```