Multi-network Mesh Expansion

This example provides instructions to integrate VMs and bare metal hosts intoan Istio mesh deployed on Kubernetes with gateways. No VPN connectivity nor direct network access between workloads inVMs, bare metals and clusters is required.

Prerequisites

  • One or more Kubernetes clusters with versions: 1.13, 1.14, 1.15.

  • Mesh expansion machines must have IP connectivity to the Ingress gateways in the mesh.

  • Install the Helm client. Helm is needed to enable mesh expansion.

Installation steps

Setup consists of preparing the mesh for expansion and installing and configuring each VM.

Customized installation of Istio on the Cluster

The first step when adding non-Kubernetes services to an Istio mesh is to configure the Istio installation itself, andgenerate the configuration files that let mesh expansion VMs connect to the mesh. To prepare thecluster for mesh expansion, run the following commands on a machine with cluster admin privileges:

  • Generate a meshexpansion-gateways Istio configuration file using helm:
  1. $ helm template install/kubernetes/helm/istio --name istio --namespace istio-system \
  2. -f https://github.com/irisdingbj/meshExpansion/blob/master/values-istio-meshexpansion-gateways.yaml \ > $HOME/istio-mesh-expansion-gatways.yaml

For further details and customization options, refer to theInstallation with Helm instructions.

  • Deploy Istio control plane into the cluster
  1. $ kubectl create namespace istio-system
  2. $ helm template install/kubernetes/helm/istio-init --name istio-init --namespace istio-system | kubectl apply -f -
  3. $ kubectl apply -f $HOME/istio-mesh-expansion-gatways.yaml
  • Verify Istio is installed successfully
  1. $ istioctl verify-install -f $HOME/istio-mesh-expansion-gatways.yaml
  • Create vm namespace for the VM services.
  1. $ kubectl create ns vm
  • Define the namespace the VM joins. This example uses the SERVICE_NAMESPACE environment variable to store the namespace. The value of this variable must match the namespace you use in the configuration files later on.
  1. $ export SERVICE_NAMESPACE="vm"
  • Extract the initial keys the service account needs to use on the VMs.
  1. $ kubectl -n $SERVICE_NAMESPACE get secret istio.default \
  2. -o jsonpath='{.data.root-cert\.pem}' | base64 --decode > root-cert.pem
  3. $ kubectl -n $SERVICE_NAMESPACE get secret istio.default \
  4. -o jsonpath='{.data.key\.pem}' | base64 --decode > key.pem
  5. $ kubectl -n $SERVICE_NAMESPACE get secret istio.default \
  6. -o jsonpath='{.data.cert-chain\.pem}' | base64 --decode > cert-chain.pem
  • Determine and store the IP address of the Istio ingress gateway since the mesh expansion machines access Citadel and Pilot and workloads on cluster through this IP address.
  1. $ export GWIP=$(kubectl get -n istio-system service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')
  2. $ echo $GWIP
  3. 35.232.112.158
  • Generate a cluster.env configuration to deploy in the VMs. This file contains the Kubernetes cluster IP address rangesto intercept and redirect via Envoy.
  1. $ echo -e "ISTIO_CP_AUTH=MUTUAL_TLS\nISTIO_SERVICE_CIDR=$ISTIO_SERVICE_CIDR\n" > cluster.env
  • Check the contents of the generated cluster.env file. It should be similar to the following example:
  1. $ cat cluster.env
  2. ISTIO_CP_AUTH=MUTUAL_TLS
  3. ISTIO_SERVICE_CIDR=172.21.0.0/16

Setup DNS

Providing DNS resolution to allow services running on VM can access theservices running in the cluster. Istio itself does not use the DNS forrouting requests between services. Services local to a cluster share acommon DNS suffix(e.g., svc.cluster.local). Kubernetes DNS providesDNS resolution for these services.

To provide a similar setup to allow services accessible from VMs, you nameservices in the clusters in the format<name>.<namespace>.global. Istio also ships with a CoreDNS server thatwill provide DNS resolution for these services. In order to utilize thisDNS, Kubernetes’ DNS must be configured to stub a domain for .global.

Some cloud providers have different specific DNS domain stub capabilitiesand procedures for their Kubernetes services. Reference the cloud provider’sdocumentation to determine how to stub DNS domains for each uniqueenvironment. The objective of this bash is to stub a domain for .global onport 53 to reference or proxy the istiocoredns service in Istio’s servicenamespace.

Create one of the following ConfigMaps, or update an existing one, in eachcluster that will be calling services in remote clusters(every cluster in the general case):

For clusters that use kube-dns:

  1. $ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
  2. apiVersion: v1
  3. kind: ConfigMap
  4. metadata:
  5. name: kube-dns
  6. namespace: kube-system
  7. data:
  8. stubDomains: |
  9. {"global": ["$(kubectl get svc -n istio-system istiocoredns -o jsonpath={.spec.clusterIP})"]}
  10. EOF

For clusters that use CoreDNS:

  1. $ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
  2. apiVersion: v1
  3. kind: ConfigMap
  4. metadata:
  5. name: coredns
  6. namespace: kube-system
  7. data:
  8. Corefile: |
  9. .:53 {
  10. errors
  11. health
  12. kubernetes cluster.local in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa {
  13. pods insecure
  14. upstream
  15. fallthrough in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa
  16. }
  17. prometheus :9153
  18. proxy . /etc/resolv.conf
  19. cache 30
  20. loop
  21. reload
  22. loadbalance
  23. }
  24. global:53 {
  25. errors
  26. cache 30
  27. proxy . $(kubectl get svc -n istio-system istiocoredns -o jsonpath={.spec.clusterIP})
  28. }
  29. EOF

Setting up the VM

Next, run the following commands on each machine that you want to add to the mesh:

  • Copy the previously created cluster.env and *.pem files to the VM.

  • Install the Debian package with the Envoy sidecar.

  1. $ curl -L https://storage.googleapis.com/istio-release/releases/1.4.0/deb/istio-sidecar.deb > istio-sidecar.deb
  2. $ sudo dpkg -i istio-sidecar.deb
  • Add the IP address of the Istio gateway to /etc/hosts. Revisit the Customized installation of Istio on the Cluster section to learn how to obtain the IP address.The following example updates the /etc/hosts file with the Istio gateway address:
  1. $ echo "35.232.112.158 istio-citadel istio-pilot istio-pilot.istio-system" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
  • Install root-cert.pem, key.pem and cert-chain.pem under /etc/certs/.
  1. $ sudo mkdir -p /etc/certs
  2. $ sudo cp {root-cert.pem,cert-chain.pem,key.pem} /etc/certs
  • Install cluster.env under /var/lib/istio/envoy/.
  1. $ sudo cp cluster.env /var/lib/istio/envoy
  • Transfer ownership of the files in /etc/certs/ and /var/lib/istio/envoy/ to the Istio proxy.
  1. $ sudo chown -R istio-proxy /etc/certs /var/lib/istio/envoy
  • Verify the node agent works:
  1. $ sudo node_agent
  2. ....
  3. CSR is approved successfully. Will renew cert in 1079h59m59.84568493s
  • Start Istio using systemctl.
  1. $ sudo systemctl start istio-auth-node-agent
  2. $ sudo systemctl start istio

Added Istio resources

Below Istio resources are added to support Mesh Expansion with gateways. This released the flat network requirement between the VM and cluster.

Resource KindResource NameFunction
configmapcorednsSend .global request to istiocordns service
serviceistiocorednsResolve .global to Istio Ingress gateway
gateway.networking.istio.iomeshexpansion-gatewayOpen port for Pilot, Citadel and Mixer
gateway.networking.istio.ioistio-multicluster-egressgatewayOpen port 15443 for outbound .global traffic
gateway.networking.istio.ioistio-multicluster-ingressgatewayOpen port 15443 for inbound .global traffic
envoyfilter.networking.istio.ioistio-multicluster-ingressgatewayTransform .global to . svc.cluster.local
destinationrule.networking.istio.ioistio-multicluster-destinationruleSet traffic policy for 15443 traffic
destinationrule.networking.istio.iomeshexpansion-dr-pilotSet traffic policy for istio-pilot
destinationrule.networking.istio.ioistio-policySet traffic policy for istio-policy
destinationrule.networking.istio.ioistio-telemetrySet traffic policy for istio-telemetry
virtualservice.networking.istio.iomeshexpansion-vs-pilotSet route info for istio-pilot
virtualservice.networking.istio.iomeshexpansion-vs-citadelSet route info for istio-citadel

Expose service running on cluster to VMs

Every service in the cluster that needs to be accessed from the VM requires a service entry configuration in the cluster. The host used in the service entry should be of the form <name>.<namespace>.global where name and namespace correspond to the service’s name and namespace respectively.

To demonstrate access from VM to cluster services, configure thethe httpbin servicein the cluster.

  • Deploy the httpbin service in the cluster

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  1. $ kubectl create namespace bar
  2. $ kubectl label namespace bar istio-injection=enabled
  3. $ kubectl apply -n bar -f @samples/httpbin/httpbin.yaml@
  • Create a service entry for the httpbin service in the cluster.

To allow services in VM to access httpbin in the cluster, we need to createa service entry for it. The host name of the service entry should be of the form<name>.<namespace>.global where name and namespace correspond to theremote service’s name and namespace respectively.

For DNS resolution for services under the *.global domain, you need to assign theseservices an IP address.

Each service (in the .global DNS domain) must have a unique IP within the cluster.

If the global services have actual VIPs, you can use those, but otherwise we suggestusing IPs from the loopback range 127.0.0.0/8 that are not already allocated.These IPs are non-routable outside of a pod.In this example we’ll use IPs in 127.255.0.0/16 which avoids conflicting withwell known IPs such as 127.0.0.1 (localhost).Application traffic for these IPs will be captured by the sidecar and routed to theappropriate remote service.

  1. $ kubectl apply -n bar -f - <<EOF
  2. apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
  3. kind: ServiceEntry
  4. metadata:
  5. name: httpbin.bar.forvms
  6. spec:
  7. hosts:
  8. # must be of form name.namespace.global
  9. - httpbin.bar.global
  10. location: MESH_INTERNAL
  11. ports:
  12. - name: http1
  13. number: 8000
  14. protocol: http
  15. resolution: DNS
  16. addresses:
  17. # the IP address to which httpbin.bar.global will resolve to
  18. # must be unique for each service, within a given cluster.
  19. # This address need not be routable. Traffic for this IP will be captured
  20. # by the sidecar and routed appropriately.
  21. # This address will also be added into VM's /etc/hosts
  22. - 127.255.0.3
  23. endpoints:
  24. # This is the routable address of the ingress gateway in the cluster.
  25. # Traffic from the VMs will be
  26. # routed to this address.
  27. - address: ${CLUSTER_GW_ADDR}
  28. ports:
  29. http1: 15443 # Do not change this port value
  30. EOF

The configurations above will result in all traffic from VMs forhttpbin.bar.global on any port to be routed to the endpoint<IPofClusterIngressGateway>:15443 over a mutual TLS connection.

The gateway for port 15443 is a special SNI-aware Envoypreconfigured and installed as part of the meshexpansion with gateway Istio installation stepin the Customized installation of Istio on the Cluster section. Traffic entering port 15443 will beload balanced among pods of the appropriate internal service of the targetcluster (in this case, httpbin.bar in the cluster).

Do not create a Gateway configuration for port 15443.

Send requests from VM to Kubernetes services

After setup, the machine can access services running in the Kubernetes cluster.

The following example shows accessing a service running in the Kubernetes cluster from a mesh expansion VM using/etc/hosts/, in this case using a service from the httpbin service.

  • On the mesh expansion machine, add the service name and address to its /etc/hosts file. You can then connect tothe cluster service from the VM, as in the example below:
  1. $ echo "127.255.0.3 httpbin.bar.global" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
  2. $ curl -v httpbin.bar.global:8000
  3. < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  4. < server: envoy
  5. < content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  6. < content-length: 9593
  7. ... html content ...

The server: envoy header indicates that the sidecar intercepted the traffic.

Running services on a mesh expansion machine

  • Setup an HTTP server on the VM instance to serve HTTP traffic on port 8888:
  1. $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888
  • Determine the VM instance’s IP address.

  • Configure a service entry to enable service discovery for the VM. You can add VM services to the mesh using aservice entry. Service entries let you manually addadditional services to Pilot’s abstract model of the mesh. Once VM services are part of the mesh’s abstract model,other services can find and direct traffic to them. Each service entry configuration contains the IP addresses, ports,and appropriate labels of all VMs exposing a particular service, for example:

  1. $ kubectl -n ${SERVICE_NAMESPACE} apply -f - <<EOF
  2. apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
  3. kind: ServiceEntry
  4. metadata:
  5. name: vmhttp
  6. spec:
  7. hosts:
  8. - vmhttp.${SERVICE_NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local
  9. ports:
  10. - number: 8888
  11. name: http
  12. protocol: HTTP
  13. resolution: STATIC
  14. endpoints:
  15. - address: ${VM_IP}
  16. ports:
  17. http: 8888
  18. labels:
  19. app: vmhttp
  20. version: "v1"
  21. EOF
  • The workloads in a Kubernetes cluster need a DNS mapping to resolve the domain names of VM services. Tointegrate the mapping with your own DNS system, use istioctl register and creates a Kubernetes selector-lessservice, for example:
  1. $ istioctl register -n ${SERVICE_NAMESPACE} vmhttp ${VM_IP} 8888

Ensure you have added the istioctl client to your path, as described in the download page.

  • Deploy a pod running the sleep service in the Kubernetes cluster, and wait until it is ready:

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  1. $ kubectl apply -f @samples/sleep/sleep.yaml@
  2. $ kubectl get pod
  3. NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
  4. productpage-v1-8fcdcb496-xgkwg 2/2 Running 0 1d
  5. sleep-88ddbcfdd-rm42k 2/2 Running 0 1s
  6. ...
  • Send a request from the sleep service on the pod to the VM’s HTTP service:
  1. $ kubectl exec -it sleep-88ddbcfdd-rm42k -c sleep -- curl vmhttp.${SERVICE_NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local:8888

If configured properly, you will see something similar to the output below.

  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"><html>
  2. <title>Directory listing for /</title>
  3. <body>
  4. <h2>Directory listing for /</h2>
  5. <hr>
  6. <ul>
  7. <li><a href=".bashrc">.bashrc</a></li>
  8. <li><a href=".ssh/">.ssh/</a></li>
  9. ...
  10. </body>

Congratulations! You successfully configured a service running in a pod within the cluster tosend traffic to a service running on a VM outside of the cluster and tested thatthe configuration worked.

Cleanup

Run the following commands to remove the expansion VM from the mesh’s abstractmodel.

  1. $ istioctl deregister -n ${SERVICE_NAMESPACE} vmhttp ${VM_IP}
  2. 2019-02-21T22:12:22.023775Z info Deregistered service successfull
  3. $ kubectl delete ServiceEntry vmhttp -n ${SERVICE_NAMESPACE}
  4. serviceentry.networking.istio.io "vmhttp" deleted

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