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
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.
Creating a local Kubernetes cluster
1. Create a local Kubernetes cluster with k3d by running:
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. The kubectl context is immediately set to this cluster.
2. 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 your k3d cluster:
gefyra up
2. Run a local Docker container with Gefyra in order to connect it with the cluster.
2.1 Build a simple Docker image with a local tag. Save the following two files in a directory on your disk.
File ./Dockerfile
FROM ubuntu
# run a server on port 8000
RUN apt update && apt install -y iproute2 iputils-ping python3 traceroute wget curl
COPY local.py local.py
CMD python3 local.py
File ./local.py
import http.server
import signal
import socket
import socketserver
import sys
from datetime import datetime
if sys.argv[1:]:
port = int(sys.argv[1])
else:
port = 8000
class MyHttpRequestHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
self.end_headers()
hostname = socket.gethostname()
now = datetime.utcnow()
self.wfile.write(
bytes(
f"<html><body><h1>Hello from Gefyra. It is {now} on"
f" {hostname}.</h1></body></html>".encode("utf-8")
)
)
my_handler = MyHttpRequestHandler
server = socketserver.ThreadingTCPServer(("", port), my_handler)
def signal_handler(signal, frame):
try:
if server:
server.server_close()
finally:
sys.exit(0)
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
try:
while True:
sys.stdout.flush()
server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass
server.server_close()
2.2 Build it by running docker build -f Dockerfile . -t pyserver in your directory.
2.3 Execute Gefyra's run command:
gefyra run -d -i pyserver -N mypyserver -n default
Important: gefyra run is just a wrapper for docker run (with additional flags), yet it also applies Gefyra's networking
configuration to connect the container with Kubernetes. Check out the docs for gefyra run
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. 🚀
4. Create a bridge to redirect the traffic from the cluster application to the one running locally:
gefyra bridge -N mypyserver -n default --ports 80:8000 --target deploy/hello-nginxdemo/hello-nginx
Check out the locally running server serving the cluster by refreshing the address from the service in Kubernetes.
It shows you a different message: Hello from Gefyra. It is .... Yes, that is really coming from your local container! 😎
5. List all running bridges:
You can list all currently active bridges with:
gefyra list --bridges
You will find all local containers that are currently linked into the cluster serving requests.
6. Unbridge the local container and reset the cluster to its original state:
gefyra unbridge --all
Check out the original response from from the service. The cluster is now reset to its inital state again.
Cleaning up
Remove Gefyra's components from the cluster and your local Docker host with:
gefyra down
Deleting the locally running k3d Kubernetes cluster with
k3d cluster delete mycluster
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