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Kubernetes v4.9.1 published on Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 by Pulumi

App Rollout via ConfigMap Data Change

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Kubernetes v4.9.1 published on Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 by Pulumi

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    Uses nginx to reverse-proxy traffic to pulumi.github.io. The nginx configuration is contained in the file default.conf in this directory; this program reads that file and puts it in a ConfigMap. Hence, changing data in that file will cause register as a change in the ConfigMap’s data, which will trigger a rollout of the nginx Deployment.

    configmapRollout

    Running the App

    Follow the steps in Pulumi Installation and Setup and Configuring Pulumi Kubernetes to get setup with Pulumi and Kubernetes.

    Install dependencies:

    npm install
    

    Create a new stack:

    $ pulumi stack init
    Enter a stack name: configmap-rollout-dev
    

    This example will attempt to expose the nginx deployment to the Internet with a Service of type LoadBalancer. Since minikube does not support LoadBalancer, the application already knows to use type ClusterIP instead; all you need to do is to tell it whether you’re deploying to minikube:

    pulumi config set isMinikube <value>
    

    Perform the deployment:

    $ pulumi up
    Updating stack 'configmap-rollout-dev'
    Performing changes:
    
         Type                           Name                                     Status      Info
     +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack            configmap-rollout-configmap-rollout-dev  created
     +   ├─ kubernetes:core:ConfigMap   nginx                                    created
     +   ├─ kubernetes:apps:Deployment  nginx                                    created
     +   └─ kubernetes:core:Service     nginx                                    created
    
    ---outputs:---
    frontendIp: "35.193.210.254"
    
    info: 4 changes performed:
        + 4 resources created
    Update duration: 49.612528861s
    
    Permalink: https://app.pulumi.com/hausdorff/configmap-rollout-dev/updates/1
    

    We can see here in the ---outputs:--- section that our proxy was allocated a public IP, in this case 35.193.210.254. It is exported with a stack output variable, frontendIp. We can use curl and grep to retrieve the <title> of the site the proxy points at.

    $ curl -sL $(pulumi stack output frontendIp):80 | grep -C 1 "<title>"
    
        <title>Pulumi. Serverless // Containers // Infrastructure // Cloud // DevOps</title>
    

    Now, open default.conf and change .node.server and .server.location.proxy_set_header to point at google.com. If you’re on macOS you can run sed -i bak "s/pulumi.github.io/google.com/g" default.conf

    The result should look like this:

    upstream node {
      server google.com;
    }
    server {
      listen                  80;
      server_name             _;
      root                    /usr/share/nginx/html;
      location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP \$remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For \$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host google.com;
        proxy_pass http://node;
        proxy_redirect off;
        port_in_redirect off;
      }
    }
    

    Running preview now shows that this change will cause us to replace the ConfigMap with a new one containing the new data, and subsequently trigger a rollout in the Deployment.

    NOTE: This rollout is safe! Pulumi executes this plan with the following steps:

    1. Create a new ConfigMap with a new name and the new data.
    2. Update the PodTemplate of the Deployment to point at the new ConfigMap. This update triggers the Deployment controller to try to roll out a new set of containers with mounts that contain this new data.
    3. Only once that succeeds, delete the old ConfigMap.
    Previewing update of stack 'configmap-rollout-dev'
         Type                           Name                                     Status        Info
     *   pulumi:pulumi:Stack            configmap-rollout-configmap-rollout-dev  no change
     +-  ├─ kubernetes:core:ConfigMap   nginx                                    replace       changes: ~ data,metadata
     ~   └─ kubernetes:apps:Deployment  nginx                                    update        changes: ~ spec
    
    info: 2 changes previewed:
        ~ 1 resource to update
        +-1 resource to replace
          2 resources unchanged
    

    Running pulumi up should similarly look something like this:

    Updating stack 'configmap-rollout-dev'
         Type                           Name                                     Status       Info
     *   pulumi:pulumi:Stack            configmap-rollout-configmap-rollout-dev  done
     +-  ├─ kubernetes:core:ConfigMap   nginx                                    replaced     changes: ~ data,metadata
     ~   └─ kubernetes:apps:Deployment  nginx                                    updated      changes: ~ spec
    
    ---outputs:---
    frontendIp: "35.193.210.254"
    
    info: 2 changes performed:
        ~ 1 resource updated
        +-1 resource replaced
          2 resources unchanged
    Update duration: 5.679919856s
    
    Permalink: https://app.pulumi.com/hausdorff/configmap-rollout-dev/updates/13
    

    Now, if we curl the IP address once more, we see that it points at google.com!

    Note: minikube does not support type LoadBalancer; if you are deploying to minikube, make sure to run kubectl port-forward svc/frontend 8080:80 to forward the cluster port to the local machine and access the service via localhost:8080.

    $ curl -sL $(pulumi stack output frontendIp) | grep -o "<title>Google</title>"
    <title>Google</title>
    
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