How to Run the OSM Automated Demo

System Requirements

  • MacOS, Linux or WSL2 on Windows
  • GCC
  • Go version 1.15 or higher
  • Kubectl version 1.15 or higher
  • Docker CLI
    • on a Debian based GNU/Linux system: sudo apt-get install docker
    • on a macOS use brew install docker or alternatively visit Docker for Mac
    • on Windows visit Docker for Windows
  • Watch
    • brew install watch on macOS

Prerequisites

  1. Clone this repo on your workstation

  2. Setup .env environment variable file

    • From the root of the repository run make .env
    • It is already listed in .gitignore so that anything you put in it would not accidentally leak into a public git repo. Refer to .env.example in the root of this repo for the mandatory and optional environment variables.

  3. Provision access to a Kubernetes cluster. Any certified conformant Kubernetes cluster (version 1.15 or higher) can be used. Here are a couple of options:

    • Option 1: Local kind cluster
      • Install kind
        • brew install kind on macOS
      • Provision a local cluster and registry in Docker: make kind-up
    • Option 2: A Kubernetes cluster - use an already provisioned cluster config, either in the default location ($HOME/.kube/config) or referenced by the $KUBECONFIG environment variable.

    We will use images from Docker Hub. Ensure you can pull these containers using: docker pull openservicemesh/osm-controller

Run the Demo

From the root of this repository execute:

./demo/run-osm-demo.sh

Observability

By default, Prometheus is deployed by the demo script. To turn this off. Set the variable DEPLOY_PROMETHEUS in your .env file to false. By default, Grafana is deployed by the demo script. To turn this off. Set the variable DEPLOY_GRAFANA in your .env file to false.

This script will:

  • compile OSM’s control plane (cmd/osm-controller), create a separate container image and push it to the workstation’s default container registry (See ~/.docker/config.json)

  • build and push demo application images described below

  • create the following topology in Kubernetes:

    Graph

    • bookbuyer and bookthief continuously issue HTTP GET requests against bookstore to buy books and github.com to verify egress traffic.
    • bookstore is a service backed by two servers: bookstore-v1 and bookstore-v2. Whenever either sells a book, it issues an HTTP POST request to the bookwarehouse to restock.

  • applies SMI traffic policies allowing bookbuyer to access bookstore-v1 and bookstore-v2, while preventing bookthief from accessing the bookstore services

  • installs Jaeger and points all Envoy pods to it

  • finally, a command indefinitely watches the relevant pods within the Kubernetes cluster

To see the results of deploying the services and the service mesh - run the tailing scripts:

  • the scripts will connect to the respective Kubernetes Pod and stream its logs
  • the output will be the output of the curl command to the bookstore service and the count of books sold, and the output of the curl command to github.com to demonstrate access to an external service
  • a properly working service mesh will result in HTTP 200 OK response code for the bookstore service with ./demo/tail-bookbuyer.sh along with a monotonically increasing counter appearing in the response headers, while ./demo/tail-bookthief.sh will result in HTTP 404 Not Found response code for the bookstore service. When egress is enabled, HTTP requests to an out-of-mesh host will result in a HTTP 200 OK response code for both the bookbuyer and bookthief services. This can be automatically checked with go run ./ci/cmd/maestro.go

View Mesh Topology with Jaeger

The OSM demo will install a Jaeger pod, and configure all participating Envoys to send spans to it. Jaeger’s UI is running on port 16686. To view the web UI, forward port 16686 from the Jaeger pod to the local workstation and navigate to http://localhost:16686/. In the ./scripts directory we have included a helper script to find the Jaeger pod and forward the port: ./scripts/port-forward-jaeger.sh

Demo Web UI

The Bookstore, Bookbuyer, and Bookthief apps have simple web UI visualizing the number of requests made between the services.

To expose web UI ports of all components of the service mesh the local workstation use the following helper script: /scripts/port-forward-all.sh

Deleting the kind cluster

When you are done with the demo and want to clean up your local kind cluster, just run the following.

make kind-reset