Steve Martinelli

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Background

This is a continuation of a previous post! In the previous blog post I wrote about deploying a Flask app using Docker and IBM Cloud’s Kubernetes service. In this post I’ll write about updating that deployment.

The gist of what I want to accomplish is:

  • Rebuild the Docker image
  • Tag a new image version
  • Push it to the IBM Container Registry
  • Update the Kubernetes workers

Pushing a new version

Rebuild the docker image and push to container registry

Much like in the previous blog post, rebuilding, tagging, and pushing the image can be done in a few commands:

docker build -t validator:latest .
ibmcloud cr login
docker tag validator registry.ng.bluemix.net/aida/validator
docker push registry.ng.bluemix.net/aida/validator

Find workers

Now let’s update our workers, first we have to find the workers associated with the cluster, run the ibmcloud ks workers command to see the two IDs for my workers: kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1 and kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2.

ibmcloud ks workers --cluster validator-beta
ID                                                 Public IP        Private IP       Machine Type        State    Status   Zone    Version
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1   169.xx.yy.116    10.177.184.133   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal   Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1543*
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2   169.xx.yy.241   10.177.184.141   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal   Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1543*

Update the workers

To update the workers, run the ibmcloud ks worker-update command while passing in your cluster name and the workers you want to update.

:bulb: the -f option is to bypass the user prompt

ibmcloud ks worker-update -f --cluster validator-beta --workers kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1,kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2

Viewing the workers while updating

I figured I would add this piece as I found it interesting. You can view the State columns change as the worker update is being performed. State is changed from normal to reload_pending to reloading and finally back to normal, one worker at a time.

Before the update

ibmcloud ks workers --cluster validator-beta
ID                                                 Public IP        Private IP       Machine Type        State    Status   Zone    Version
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1   169.xx.yy.116    10.177.184.133   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal   Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1543*
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2   169.xx.yy.241   10.177.184.141   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal   Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1543*

During the update

$ ibmcloud ks workers --cluster validator-beta
OK
ID                                                 Public IP        Private IP       Machine Type        State            Status   Zone    Version
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1   169.xx.yy.116    10.177.184.133   u2c.2x4.encrypted   reload_pending   -        dal10   1.10.12_1543 --> 1.10.12_1544 (pending)
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2   169.xx.yy.241   10.177.184.141   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal           Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1543 --> 1.10.12_1544 (pending)

$ ibmcloud ks workers --cluster validator-beta
OK
ID                                                 Public IP        Private IP       Machine Type        State       Status   Zone    Version
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1   169.xx.yy.116    10.177.184.133   u2c.2x4.encrypted   reloading   -        dal10   1.10.12_1543 --> 1.10.12_1544 (pending)
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2   169.xx.yy.241   10.177.184.141   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal      Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1543 --> 1.10.12_1544 (pending)

$ ibmcloud ks workers --cluster validator-beta
OK
ID                                                 Public IP        Private IP       Machine Type        State       Status   Zone    Version
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1   169.xx.yy.116    10.177.184.133   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal      Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1544
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2   169.xx.yy.241   10.177.184.141   u2c.2x4.encrypted   reloading   -        dal10   1.10.12_1543 --> 1.10.12_1544 (pending)

After the update

$ ibmcloud ks workers --cluster validator-beta
OK
ID                                                 Public IP        Private IP       Machine Type        State    Status   Zone    Version
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1   169.xx.yy.116    10.177.184.133   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal   Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1544
kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2   169.xx.yy.241   10.177.184.141   u2c.2x4.encrypted   normal   Ready    dal10   1.10.12_1544

Make it copy-pasta friendly

I’ve now gotten into the habbit of dumping the following into a terminal whenever I want a new version of the app online:

git pull origin master
docker build -t validator:latest .
docker tag validator registry.ng.bluemix.net/aida/validator
docker push registry.ng.bluemix.net/aida/validator
ibmcloud ks worker-update -f --cluster validator-beta --workers kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w1,kube-dal10-cre853b87cc0d44926975ee5a41044b1e8-w2

Thoughts

This is definitely not production worthy but fine for an internal tool. I’m hoping to write up about the following as I solve these problems in the near future:

  • Pushing a new image on every commit (presently can’t do this because the code is in Enterprise Github).
  • Figure out how to host this on a proper URL instead of an IP address.
  • Read up on how to tag image versions.

Overall, pretty positive experience with Kubernetes and IBM Cloud’s Kubernetes Service.

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