In the previous post How service mesh can help during the ONAP Microservice journey, we have discussed why the community wants ONAP to evolve towards Microservice architecture and how service mesh approach could help during the journey. Now it’s time to dip our toe in the water, let’s try out Istio with ONAP by following the below steps.
Installation
First, download installation scripts from ONAP Gerrit:
git clone https://gerrit.onap.org/r/msb/service-mesh
Kubernetes Master
We need Kubernetes 1.9 or newer to enable automatic sidecar injection, so we don’t have to modify every individual ONAP kubernetes yaml deployment files to add the sidecar container, which would be inconvenient.
Istio leverages the webhook feature of Kubernetes to automatically inject an Envoy sidecar to each Pod. Kubernetes API server will call the Istio sidecar injection webhook when it receives a request to create a Pod resource, the webhook adds an Envoy sidecar container to the Pod, then the modified Pod resource is stored into etcd.
Webhook and other needed features have already been configured in the install scripts to enable Istio sidecar injection.
Create the Kubernetes master by running this script:
cd service-mesh/install/
./1_install_k8s_master.sh
This script will create a Kubernetes master node with Kubeadm and install calico network plugin. Some other needed tools such as Docker, Kubectl and Helm will be installed as well.
From the output of the script, you should see a command on how to join a node to the created Kubernetes cluster. Note that this is just an example, the token and cert-hash of your installation will be different, please copy & paste the command to somewhere, we will need it later.
You can now join any number of machines by running the following on each node
as root:
kubeadm join 10.12.5.104:6443 --token 1x62yf.60ys5p2iw13tx2t8 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:f06628c7cee002b262e69f3f9efadf47bdec125e19606ebff743a3e514a8383b
Kubernetes worker Node
Log in the worker node machine, run this script to create a kubernetes worker node:
./2_install_k8s_minion.sh
You can now join this machines by running “kubeadmin join” command as root:
sudo kubeadm join 10.12.5.104:6443 --token 1x62yf.60ys5p2iw13tx2t8 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:f06628c7cee002b262e69f3f9efadf47bdec125e19606ebff743a3e514a8383
Please note that this is just an example, please refer to the output of the “kubeamin init” when creating the k8s master for the exact command to use in your k8s cluster.
If you would like to get kubectl talk to your k8s master, you need to copy the administrator kubeconfig file from your master to your workstation like this:
scp root@<master ip>:/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf .
kubectl --kubeconfig ./admin.conf get nodes
Or you can manually copy the content of this file to ~/.kube/conf if scp can’t be used due to security reason.
Istio Control Plane
Install Istio by running this script:
./ 3_install_istio.sh
This script installs the followings Istio components: Install Istioctl command line tool in the /usr/bin directory Install Istio control plane components, including Pilot, Citadel, Mixer Install addons including servicegraph, Promeheus, Grafana, jaeger Confirm Istio was installed:
kubectl get svc -n istio-system
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
grafana NodePort 10.109.190.71 <none> 3000:30300/TCP 20m
istio-citadel ClusterIP 10.106.185.181 <none> 8060/TCP,9093/TCP 20m
istio-egressgateway ClusterIP 10.102.224.133 <none> 80/TCP,443/TCP 20m
istio-ingressgateway LoadBalancer 10.100.168.32 <pending> 80:31380/TCP,443:31390/TCP,31400:31400/TCP 20m
istio-pilot ClusterIP 10.101.64.153 <none> 15003/TCP,15005/TCP,15007/TCP,15010/TCP,15011/TCP,8080/TCP,9093/TCP 20m
istio-policy ClusterIP 10.104.11.162 <none> 9091/TCP,15004/TCP,9093/TCP 20m
istio-sidecar-injector ClusterIP 10.100.229.40 <none> 443/TCP 20m
istio-statsd-prom-bridge ClusterIP 10.107.27.91 <none> 9102/TCP,9125/UDP 20m
istio-telemetry ClusterIP 10.101.153.114 <none> 9091/TCP,15004/TCP,9093/TCP,42422/TCP 20m
prometheus ClusterIP 10.103.0.205 <none> 9090/TCP 20m
servicegraph NodePort 10.106.49.168 <none> 8088:30088/TCP 20m
tracing LoadBalancer 10.100.158.236 <pending> 80:30188/TCP 20m
zipkin NodePort 10.96.164.255 <none> 9411:30411/TCP
Sidecar Injection
In the transition phase, the Istio sidecar injector policy is configured as “disabled” when installing Istio. So the sidecar injector will not inject the sidecar into pods by default. Add the sidecar.istio.io/inject annotation with value true to the pod template spec to enable injection.
Example:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: {{ include "common.fullname" . }}
namespace: {{ include "common.namespace" . }}
labels:
app: {{ include "common.name" . }}
chart: {{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version | replace "+" "_" }}
release: {{ .Release.Name }}
heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
spec:
replicas: {{ .Values.replicaCount }}
selector:
matchLabels:
app: multicloud-vio
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: {{ include "common.name" . }}
release: {{ .Release.Name }}
name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
annotations:
sidecar.istio.io/inject: "{{.Values.istioSidecar}}"
Note: when all ONAP projects are ready for Istio integration, the Istio sidecar injector policy could be configured as “enabled”, then the annotation in the pod will not be necessary any more.
Enable Istio sidecar injection webhook.
kubectl create namespace onap
kubectl label namespace onap istio-injection=enabled
Confirm that auto sidecar injection has been enabled on onap namespace.
kubectl get namespace -L istio-injection
NAME STATUS AGE ISTIO-INJECTION
default Active 20m
istio-system Active 10m
kube-public Active 20m
kube-system Active 20m
onap Active 8s enabled
Start a local helm repository server and add it to helm repository list:
helm serve &
helm repo add local http://127.0.0.1:8879
All the charts of ONAP components are in the OOM repository, let’s download and build the ONAP helm charts.
git clone -b beijing http://gerrit.onap.org/r/oom
cd oom/kubernetes
make all
Confirm that ONAP charts have been successfully created.
helm search onap
NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
local/onap 2.0.0 beijing Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)
local/aaf 2.0.0 ONAP Application Authorization Framework
local/aai 2.0.0 ONAP Active and Available Inventory
local/clamp 2.0.0 ONAP Clamp
local/cli 2.0.0 ONAP Command Line Interface
local/consul 2.0.0 ONAP Consul Agent
local/dcaegen2 2.0.0 ONAP DCAE Gen2
local/dmaap 2.0.0 ONAP DMaaP components
local/esr 2.0.0 ONAP External System Register
local/log 2.0.0 ONAP Logging ElasticStack
local/msb 2.0.0 ONAP MicroServices Bus
local/multicloud 2.0.0 ONAP multicloud broker
local/nbi 2.0.0 ONAP Northbound Interface
local/oof 2.0.0 ONAP Optimization Framework
local/policy 2.0.0 ONAP Policy Administration Point
local/portal 2.0.0 ONAP Web Portal
local/postgres 2.0.0 ONAP Postgres Server
local/robot 2.0.0 A helm Chart for kubernetes-ONAP Robot
local/sdnc-prom 2.0.0 ONAP SDNC Policy Driven Ownership Management
local/sniro-emulator 2.0.0 ONAP Mock Sniro Emulator
local/so 2.0.0 ONAP Service Orchestrator
local/uui 2.0.0 ONAP uui
local/vfc 2.0.0 ONAP Virtual Function Controller (VF-C)
local/vid 2.0.0 ONAP Virtual Infrastructure Deployment
local/vnfsdk 2.0.0 ONAP VNF SDK
Install local/onap chart. Local/onap chart will do initialization setup which is needed for onap components, such as creating service accounts.
cd oom/kubernetes
helm install local/onap -n common --namespace onap -f onap/resources/environments/disable-allcharts.yaml
In Casablanca, MSB project is working with VF-C and MultiCloud as pilot projects, we would like to roll out it to the other ONAP projects after verifying the integration and Istio features.
helm install local/msb -n msb --namespace
helm install local/vfc -n vfc --namespace onap
helm install local/multicloud -n multicloud --namespace onap
Note that you can also install other ONAP projects with helm install if they are needed. But Istio sidecar will not be injected to their Pods by default.
Confirm that ONAP microservices have been started:
kubectl get all -n onap
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/msb-kube2msb-77ccb675dd-rhfn7 1/1 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-consul-646987f5cf-qms5v 2/2 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-discovery-7647f6476f-cl6xw 3/3 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-eag-d678c65d6-fmfn6 3/3 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-iag-647d5f998c-dc766 3/3 Running 0 3h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-5679bd9876-tzxzw 2/2 Running 0 1h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-ocata-774579596-f7smf 3/3 Running 0 1h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-vio-8c7dbc8d5-lfcw6 3/3 Running 0 1h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-windriver-85b595675d-5vx45 3/3 Running 0 1h
pod/vfc-vfc-catalog-79764dfd8f-rkx6f 2/2 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-ems-driver-75bc68b946-6r6r6 1/1 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-generic-vnfm-driver-69bf778bfd-pscjn 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-huawei-vnfm-driver-8574569f4c-8jwc4 2/2 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-juju-vnfm-driver-6dfd876bb8-bh7dq 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-multivim-proxy-58c7bd47dc-7qdtd 1/1 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-nokia-v2vnfm-driver-7b77c469bd-krfrw 1/1 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-nokia-vnfm-driver-98fbdb5b5-p9zqw 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-nslcm-74956bb876-v9kbt 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-resmgr-57dc4c98b5-dzp7f 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-vnflcm-6f9dc7df44-hncf4 2/2 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-vnfmgr-5585c688c6-7qrnp 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-vnfres-54bc985599-9zkqn 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-workflow-6db56f95b9-np8tg 1/1 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-workflow-engine-7fb49fd974-kcb8q 1/1 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-zte-sdnc-driver-585d449797-87nhp 1/1 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-zte-vnfm-driver-59d4756fbc-rpn9v 2/2 Running 0 2d
--omitted for simplicity
You can open the MSB portal http://Node_IP:30280/iui/microservices/default.html in the browser to see all the registered services.
Explore Istio Features
Distributed Tracing
First, let’s generate some traffics in the application, access the following URLs with curl command or open them in the browser
- http://node_ip:30280/api/multicloud/v0/swagger.json
- http://node_ip:30280/api/multicloud-vio/v0/swagger.json
- http://node_ip:30280/api/multicloud-ocata/v0/swagger.json
Then open your browser at http://tracing_node_ip:tracing_node_port/, you should see something similar to the following:
Note:
- Tracing_node_port can be found by ‘kubctl get svc -n istio-system’.
- ONAP microservices need to propagate the appropriate HTTP headers so that when the proxies send span information, the spans can be correlated correctly into a single trace.
Service Graph
Istio provides a Servicegraph service which generates and visualizes graph representations of the services in the mesh.
Open your browser at http://node_ip:30088/dotviz or http://node_ip:30088/force/forcegraph.html, you should see the service graph:
Metrics Visualization
Istio automatically gathers telemetry for services in a mesh. A Prometheus adapter is plugged into Mixer to serve the generated metric data. A Grafana addon is pre-configured with a Prometheus data source and has an Istio dashboard installed for the metric visualization.
Open your browser at http://node_ip:30300, you should see the Grafana Istio dashboard:
What’s the next? we will enable mutual TLS authentication and leverage Istio RBAC for ONAP microservices communication security. Comment here to leave your thoughts or join our weekly project meeting if you’re interested.