2019-08-14 Kubernetes Subgroup Meeting notes

10 min

CI/CD: Standing up a FOLIO system with Kubernetes and Ansible

@Ian Hardy

Role refactoring in folio-ansible (see https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/FOLIO-2187) allows use of existing code to stand up a FOLIO system.

Meeting notes

Ian demoed how he is using a bastion container within the cluster to run an Ansible playbook to deploy a backend FOLIO system for a tenant. The playbook uses roles defined in folio-ansible to stand up modules and configure Okapi for the tenant.

5 min

WIP: Standing up EKS with Ansible

@Wayne Schneider

Meeting notes

Wayne shared some of his current work, using an Ansible playbook to provision an EKS cluster in an AWS region. The goal is to link this work with Ian's to be able to automate standing up FOLIO on EKS and maintain a set of FOLIO installations across regions using Ansible for configuration management.

10 min

Future topics/discussion

@Wayne Schneider

• New FOLIO CI/CD environments: PR preview

• Okapi/Kubernetes integration updates

• Data schema migration updates

• Research topic: Running FOLIO with dev/stage/prod environments

Meeting notes

Quick update on Okapi/Kubernetes integration: most users have worked around the issues with integrating Okapi discovery with Kubernetes service registration, so https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/OKAPI-729 is a lower priority. There is still interest in embedding Kubernetes JSON in LaunchDescriptors (https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/OKAPI-736). We are also looking at other ways of describing resource requirements in the ModuleDescriptor, see https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/FOLIO-2185 (related to https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/FOLIO-1729).

Subgroup members are asked to look at the list of future topics above and comment on Slack if there are other things that would be interesting to discuss.