kubevela

KubeVela

The Open Application Platform based on Kubernetes and Open Application Model (OAM).

Project Status

🚨 Warning: this project is still a work in progress with lots of rough edges, please don't look inside unless you know what you are doing.

KubeVela project is initialized and maintained by the cloud native community since day 0 with bootstrapping contributors from 8+ different organizations. We intend for KubeVela to have a open governance since the very beginning and donate the project to neutral foundation as soon as it's released.

Purpose and Goal

• For developers and operators
  • KubeVela, as an out-of-box Cloud Native Application Management Platform, provides numerous workloads and operation tooling for application defining, deployment, scaling, traffic, rollout, routing, monitoring, logging, alerting, CI/CD and so on.
• For platform builders
  • KubeVela, as a highly extensible PaaS/Serverless Core, provides pluggable capabilities, an elegant way to integrate any workloads and operational capabilities (i.e. traits).

Design and Architecture

Read more about KubeVela's high level design and architecture.

Demo Instructions

See the demo instructions below get a sense of what we've accomplished and are working on.

Install

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes cluster running Kubernetes v1.15.0 or greater
• kubectl current context is configured for the target cluster install
  • kubectl config current-context

Get the Vela CLI

Download the vela binary from the releases page. Unpack the vela binary and add it to $PATH to get started.

sudo mv ./vela /usr/local/bin/vela

Install Vela Core

$ vela install

This command will install vela core controller into your K8s cluster, along with built-in workloads and traits.

Using KubeVela

After vela install you will see available workloads and traits.

$ vela workloads
NAME         	DEFINITION
backend      	podspecworkloads.standard.oam.dev
task         	jobs.batch.k8s.io
webservice   	podspecworkloads.standard.oam.dev

$ vela traits
NAME        	DEFINITION                        	APPLIES TO
route       	routes.standard.oam.dev           	webservice,backend            	                                  
scale       	manualscalertraits.core.oam.dev   	webservice,backend

Create environment

Before working with your application, you should prepare an deploy environment for it (e.g. test, staging, prod etc).

$ vela env init demo --namespace demo --email my@email.com --domain kubevela.io
ENVIROMENT demo CREATED, Namespace: demo, Email: my@email.com.

Vela will create a Kubernetes namespace called demo , with namespace level issuer for certificate generation using the email you provided.

You could check the environment metadata in your local:

$ cat ~/.vela/envs/demo/config.json
  {"name":"demo","namespace":"demo","email":"my@email.com","domain":"kubevela.io","issuer":"oam-env-demo"}

Create simple component

Then let's create application, we will use the demo environment.

$ vela comp deploy mycomp -t webservice --image crccheck/hello-world --port 8000 --app myapp
Creating AppConfig appcomp
SUCCEED

Create micro-services application

Vela supports micro-services application by default thanks to Open Application Model.

$ vela comp deploy db -t backend --image crccheck/hello-world --app myapp
Creating App myapp
SUCCEED

$ vela comp ls
NAME  	APP  	WORKLOAD  	TRAITS	STATUS 	  CREATED-TIME
db    	myapp	backend   	      	Deployed	2020-09-18 22:42:04 +0800 CST
mycomp	myapp	webservice	      	Deployed	2020-09-18 22:42:04 +0800 CST

Under the hood

In Kubernetes, vela creates an OAM application configuration named myapp to manage all related components.

$ kubectl get appconfig -n demo
  NAME    AGE
  myapp   24s

$ kubectl get components -n demo
  NAME     AGE
  mycomp   24s
  db       10s

Vela Core is responsible for managing the underlying Kubernetes resources linked with the components and application configuration above.

$ kubectl get deployment -n demo
  NAME     READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
  mycomp   1/1     1            1           38s
  db       1/1     1            1           20s

$ kubectl get svc -n demo
 NAME     TYPE        CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
 mycomp   ClusterIP   172.21.4.228   <none>        8080/TCP   49s

Manage operational configurations of the application

Vela leverages OAM trait system to manage operational configurations such as scale, route, canary, autocaleetc in application centric approach.

Let's take route as example.

route

If you want to use route, please make sure you have [nginx-ingress controller[https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/deploy/] in your cluster.

$ vela route mycomp --app myapp
 Adding route for app mycomp
 Succeeded!

For now you have to check the public address manually (this will be fixed soon so vela route will return visiting URL as result):

$ kubectl get ingress -n demo
NAME                        HOSTS                ADDRESS         PORTS     AGE
mycomp-trait-5b576c4fc      mycomp.kubevela.io   123.57.10.233   80, 443   73s

And after you configure the kubevela.io domain pointing to the public address above.

Your application will be reached by https://mycomp.kubevela.io with mTLS automatically enabled.

Under the hood

Vela will manage the underlying Kubernetes resource which implements the route trait.

$ kubectl get routes.standard.oam.dev -n demo
NAME                     AGE
mycomp-trait-5b576c4fc   18s

routes.standard.oam.dev is a CRD controller which will manage ingress, domain, certificate etc for your application.

Check status

Check the application:

$ vela app show myapp
  About:
  
    Name:      	myapp
    Created at:	2020-09-18 22:42:04.191171 +0800 CST
    Updated at:	2020-09-18 22:51:11.128997 +0800 CST
  
  
  Environment:
  
    Namespace:	demo
  
  Components:
  
    Name  	Type      	Traits
    db    	backend
    mycomp	webservice	route

Check specific component:

$ vela comp show mycomp
 About:
 
   Name:        	mycomp
   WorkloadType:	webservice
   Application: 	myapp
 
 Environment:
 
   Namespace:	demo
 
 Arguments:
 
   image:	crccheck/hello-world
   name: 	mycomp
   port: 	8000
 
 
 Traits:
 
   route:
     domain:	mycomp.kubevela.io
     issuer:	oam-env-demo
     name:  	route

$ vela comp status mycomp
  Showing status of Component mycomp deployed in Environment demo
  Component Status:
  	Name: mycomp  PodSpecWorkload(type) UNKNOWN APIVersion standard.oam.dev/v1alpha1 Kind PodSpecWorkload workload is unknown for HealthScope
  	Traits
  	    └─Trait/route
  
  Last Deployment:
  	Created at: 2020-09-18 22:42:04 +0800 CST
  	Updated at: 2020-09-18T22:51:11+08:00

Delete application or component

$ vela app ls
myapp

$ vela comp ls
NAME  	APP  	WORKLOAD  	TRAITS	STATUS 	CREATED-TIME
db    	myapp	backend   	      	Deployed	2020-09-18 22:42:04 +0800 CST
mycomp	myapp	webservice	route 	Deployed	2020-09-18 22:42:04 +0800 CST

$ vela comp delete db
Deleting Component 'db' from Application 'db'

$ vela comp ls
NAME  	APP  	WORKLOAD  	TRAITS	STATUS 	CREATED-TIME
mycomp	myapp	webservice	route 	Deployed	2020-09-18 22:42:04 +0800 CST

$ vela app delete myapp
Deleting Application "myapp"
delete apps succeed myapp from demo

Dashboard

Vela has a simple client side dashboard for you to interact with (note it's still under development). The functionality is equivalent to the vela cli.

$ vela dashboard

Auto-completion

To load completions in your current shell session:
$ source <(vela completion bash)

To load completions for every new session, execute once:
Linux:
  $ vela completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/vela
MacOS:
  $ vela completion bash > /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/vela

To load completions in your current shell session:
$ source <(vela completion zsh)

To load completions for every new session, execute once:
$ vela completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_vela"

Clean your environment

$ helm uninstall kubevela -n vela-system
release "kubevela" uninstalled

$ kubectl delete crd workloaddefinitions.core.oam.dev traitdefinitions.core.oam.dev  scopedefinitions.core.oam.dev
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io "workloaddefinitions.core.oam.dev" deleted
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io "traitdefinitions.core.oam.dev" deleted

$ rm -r ~/.vela

Contributing

Check out CONTRIBUTING.md to see how to develop with KubeVela.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the CNCF Code of Conduct. See CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for further details.