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How to run a Deploy Cluster on Azure AKS setup with help of operator

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Requirements#

Documentation is applicable for a version 10.4.0-1209.942 or later.

Pre-requisites#

There are a couple of prerequisites which have to be performed in order to run the automation. You have to:

azUsername=...azPassword=...

How the full flow works#

  • Installing a docker based Deploy instance, because we will use Deploy to create necessary resources in kubernetes and to deploy an operator.
  • Checking out Deploy operator and modifying the configuration based on the user input
  • Installing XL CLI to apply YAML files
  • Verifying that deployment was successful and all required resources were created in kubernetes. If something went wrong, you'll be notified about it in logs.

You can also check this operator Azure AKS documentation for more information.

All of this is automated and can be triggered by ./gradlew clean :core:startIntegrationServer --stacktrace with the configuration that is similar to the following example.

When you would like to stop your cluster you can run ./gradlew :core:shutdownIntegrationServer --stacktrace. It will undeploy all CIs, remove all deployed resources on kubernetes and clean all created PVC.

Example#

An example for a complete configuration:

deployIntegrationServer {    cli {        overlays = [                ext: [                        fileTree(dir: "$rootDir/config/cli", includes: ["**/*.py"])                ],                lib: [                        "com.xebialabs.xl-platform.test-utils:py-modules:${testUtilsVersion}@jar"                ]        ]    }    cluster {        enable = true        profile = 'operator'        publicPort = 10001    }    clusterProfiles {        operator {            activeProviderName = "azure-aks"            azureAks {                name = 'azure-aks-test-cluster'                clusterNodeCount = 3                clusterNodeVmSize = 'Standard_DS2_v2'                location = 'northcentralus'            }        }    }    servers {        server01 {            dockerImage = "xebialabsunsupported/xl-deploy"            pingRetrySleepTime = 10            pingTotalTries = 120            version = "${xlDeployTrialVersion}"            overlays = [                    conf: [                            fileTree(dir: "$rootDir/config/conf", includes: ["*.*"])                    ],            ]        }        server02 {        }    }    workers {        worker01 {            dockerImage = "xebialabsunsupported/deploy-task-engine"        }        worker02 {        }    }}

The cluster will be created with amount of servers and workers specified in the configuration. For this case, it will create 2 masters and 2 workers. The final URL to connect to UI is: http://azure-aks-test-cluster.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/xl-deploy/#/explorer (composed of operator provider name and location). In case if you want to update the operator and use your own, you can change operatorImage. Cluster will create with 3 cluster nodes with default node-vm-size Standard_DS2_v2 with 7GiB and 2vCPU. The location of the cluster will be northcentralus, check with az account list-locations for other location.