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Getting started with Gefyra and k3d

This guide will show you how to use Gefyra for the local development of a Kubernetes application running in k3d.

Prerequisites​

  1. Follow the installation for your preferred platform.

Hint there is a bug in Docker Desktop v4.17-v4.18 which causes gefyra up to fail with k3d clusters that run on that DD version.

  1. Create a local Kubernetes cluster with k3d like so:
    < v5 
k3d cluster create mycluster --agents 1 -p 8080:80@agent[0] -p 31820:31820/UDP@agent[0]

>= v5 

k3d cluster create mycluster --agents 1 -p 8080:80@agent:0 -p 31820:31820/UDP@agent:0

This creates a Kubernetes cluster that binds port 8080 and 31820 to localhost. kubectl context is immediately set to this cluster. 3. Apply some workload, for example from the testing directory of this repo: 

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gefyrahq/gefyra/main/testing/workloads/hello.yaml

Check out this workload running under: http://hello.127.0.0.1.nip.io:8080/

Running Gefyra​

  1. Set up Gefyra with 
gefyra up

  1. Run a local Docker image with Gefyra in order to make it part of the cluster.

    1. Build your Docker image with a local tag, for example from the testing directory: cd testing/images/ && docker build -f Dockerfile.local . -t pyserver
    2. Execute Gefyra's run command: 
      gefyra run -i pyserver -N mypyserver -n default
    3. exec into the running container and look around. You will find the container to run within your Kubernetes cluster. 
      docker exec -it mypyserver bash
      wget -O- hello-nginx
      will print out the website of the cluster service hello-nginx from within the cluster.

  2. Create a bridge in order to intercept the traffic to the cluster application with the one running locally: 

gefyra bridge -N mypyserver -n default --port 8000:80 --target deploy/hello-nginxdemo/hello-nginx

Check out the locally running server comes up under: http://hello.127.0.0.1.nip.io:8080/

  1. List all running bridges: 
gefyra list --bridges
  1. Unbridge the local container and reset the cluster to its original state: 
gefyra unbridge -N mypybridge

Check out the initial response from: http://hello.127.0.0.1.nip.io:8080/

Cleaning up​

  1. Remove Gefyra's components from the cluster with 
gefyra down
10. Remove the locally running Kubernetes cluster with ```sh k3d cluster delete mycluster ```

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