Version: v1.1

Provision and Binding

Cloud-oriented development is now becoming the norm, there is an urgent need to integrate cloud resources from different sources and types. Whether it is the most basic object storage, cloud database, or load balancing, it is all faced with the challenges of hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and other complex environments. KubeVela is perfect to satisfy the needs.

KubeVela efficiently and securely integrates different types of cloud resources through resource binding capabilities in cloud resource Components and Traits. At present, you can directly use the default components of AliCloud Kubernetes(ACK), AliCloud Object Storage Service (OSS) and AliCloud Relational Database Service (RDS). At the same time, more new cloud resources will gradually become the default option under the support of the community in the future. You can use cloud resources of various manufacturers in a standardized and unified way.

This tutorial will talk about how to provision and consume Cloud Resources by Terraform.

⚠️ This section requires your platform engineers have already enabled add-on ‘terraform/provider-alicloud’.

Supported Cloud Resource list

Terraform

All supported Terraform cloud resources can be seen in the list above. You can also filter them by command by vela components --label type=terraform.

Provision cloud resources

Use the following Application to provision an OSS bucket:

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: provision-cloud-resource-sample
spec:
  components:
    - name: sample-oss
      type: alibaba-oss
      properties:
        bucket: vela-website-0911
        acl: private
        writeConnectionSecretToRef:
          name: oss-conn

The above alibaba-oss component will create an OSS bucket named vela-website-0911, with private acl, with connection information stored in a secreted named oss-conn. description, whether it’s compulsory, and default value.

Apply the above application, then check the status:

$ vela ls
APP                             COMPONENT   TYPE        TRAITS  PHASE   HEALTHY STATUS                                          CREATED-TIME
provision-cloud-resource-sample sample-oss  alibaba-oss         running healthy Cloud resources are deployed and ready to use   2021-09-11 12:55:57 +0800 CST

After the phase becomes running and healthy, you can then check the OSS bucket in Alibaba Cloud console or by ossutil command.

$ ossutil ls oss://
CreationTime                                 Region    StorageClass    BucketName
2021-09-11 12:56:17 +0800 CST        oss-cn-beijing        Standard    oss://vela-website-0911

Bind cloud resources

Let’s deploy the application below to provision Alibaba Cloud OSS and RDS cloud resources, and consume them by the web component.

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: webapp
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      properties:
        image: zzxwill/flask-web-application:v0.3.1-crossplane
        ports: 80
      traits:
        - type: service-binding
          properties:
            envMappings:
              # environments refer to db-conn secret
              DB_PASSWORD:
                secret: db-conn                                   # 1) If the env name is the same as the secret key, secret key can be omitted.
              endpoint:
                secret: db-conn
                key: DB_HOST                                      # 2) If the env name is different from secret key, secret key has to be set.
              username:
                secret: db-conn
                key: DB_USER
              # environments refer to oss-conn secret
              BUCKET_NAME:
                secret: oss-conn
    - name: sample-db
      type: alibaba-rds
      properties:
        instance_name: sample-db
        account_name: oamtest
        password: U34rfwefwefffaked
        writeConnectionSecretToRef:
          name: db-conn
    - name: sample-oss
      type: alibaba-oss
      properties:
        bucket: vela-website-0911
        acl: private
        writeConnectionSecretToRef:
          name: oss-conn

The component sample-db will generate secret db-conn with these keys, and the component sample-oss will generate secret oss-conn. These secrets are binded to the Envs of component express-server by trait Service Binding. Then the component can consume instances of OSS and RDS.

Deploy and verify the application.

$ vela ls
APP     COMPONENT       TYPE        TRAITS          PHASE           HEALTHY     STATUS  CREATED-TIME
webapp  express-server  webservice  service-binding running         healthy             2021-09-08 16:50:41 +0800 CST
├─      sample-db       alibaba-rds                 running         healthy             2021-09-08 16:50:41 +0800 CST
└─      sample-oss      alibaba-oss                 running         healthy             2021-09-08 16:50:41 +0800 CST

$ sudo kubectl port-forward deployment/express-server 80:80
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:80 -> 80
Forwarding from [::1]:80 -> 80
Handling connection for 80
Handling connection for 80

Next

• Component Observability
• Data Pass Between Components
• Multi-Cluster and Environment