Fissile converts existing BOSH dev releases into docker images.
It does this using just the releases, without a BOSH deployment, CPIs, or a BOSH agent.
You can find detailed usage documentation here.
[ ] Implement extension of the role manifest in the fissile model [ ] Implement the conversion of role manifest information to kube objects in fissile [ ] Alter the role manifest so we no longer use HCP constructs (for service discovery) [ ] Deploy & test
Note: we now have almost all the information we need in the role manifest to be able to generate the needed kube objects. However, if one can assume that at some point kube may be the only deployment mechanism for HCF, it's interesting to consider that we could maintain all the kube configurations for HCF manually. The role manifest would then be reduced to a minimal size - only the information required to transform the BOSH releases to docker images.
Each object can have it's own file. We should be able to concatenate them if we need to. We have 3 things we need in Cloud Foundry:
- stateful sets (mysql, consul, etcd)
- jobs (post-deployment-setup, sso-create-service, autoscaler-create-service)
- deployments (all other roles that are not stateful sets and are not jobs)
As far as I can tell, this is not really required.
We need to generate persistent volumes for the stateful sets. The deployments should not require any persistence.
Nothing special here. Most of the things we have should be deployments.
We should be able to identify these based on the fact that they need persistent storage.
Everything that's a bosh-task should be a job. These should never be associated with a service.
We need to create services for all exposed ports in the role manifest. It would seem that for our stateful sets we could make do with headless services because none of them need load balancing, or an allocated clusterIP.
At this point the environment variables needed by each pod need to be exposed for each pod. The user needs to configure and match all of them. Not sure how we'll be able to make it nice for the user yet.
Notes
- Why aren't all the defaults for env vars in the role manifest strings?
- The UAA auth settings should move away from the role manifest.
- The kube client-go library is about to change structure (and move from PetSet to StatefulSet) Would it make sense to start directly with that?