How to Deploy an Application on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Cluster

Objective

OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes service provides you Kubernetes clusters without the hassle of installing or operating them. This guide will explain how to deploy a simple Hello World application on a OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster.

Requirements

• an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
• at least one node on the cluster
• a well-configured kubectl (see the configuring kubectl guide for details)

Instructions

Step 1 - Deploy your first application

The following command will deploy a simple application (nginx image) using a Kubernetes Deployment and a Kubernetes Service.

Create a hello.yaml file for our ovhplatform/hello Docker image:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hello-world
  labels:
    app: hello-world
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
  - port: 80
    targetPort: 80
    protocol: TCP
    name: http
  selector:
    app: hello-world
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: hello-world-deployment
  labels:
    app: hello-world
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello-world
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: hello-world
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: hello-world
        image: ovhplatform/hello
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80

And apply the file:

# kubectl apply -f hello.yml

After applying the YAML file, a new hello-world service and the corresponding hello-world-deployment deployment are created:

# kubectl apply -f  hello.yml
service/hello-world created
deployment.apps/hello-world-deployment created

Step 2 - List the pods

You have just deployed a hello-world service in a pod in your worker node. Let’s verify that everything is correct by listing the pods.

# kubectl -n=default get pods

You should see your newly created pod:

# kubectl -n=default get pods
NAME                                           READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
hello-world-deployment-d98c6464b-7jqvg         1/1       Running   0          47s

Step 3 - List the deployments

You can also verify the deployment is active:

# kubectl -n=default get deploy

And you will see the hello-service-deployment:

# kubectl -n=default get deploy
NAME                          DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
hello-world-deployment        1         1         1            1           1m

Step 4 - List the services

And now you’re going to use kubectl to see your service:

# kubectl -n=default get services

You should see your newly created service:

# kubectl get service hello-world
NAME          TYPE           CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP                        PORT(S)        AGE
hello-world   LoadBalancer   10.3.81.234   6d6regsa9pc.lb.c1.gra.k8s.ovh.net   80:31699/TCP   4m

For each service you deploy with LoadBalancer type, you will get a new sub-domain XXXXXX.lb.c1.gra.k8s.ovh.net to access the service. In my example that URL to access the service would be http://6d6regsa9pc.lb.c1.gra.k8s.ovh.net

Step 5 - Test your service

If you point your web browser to the service URL, the hello-world service will answer you:

Step 6 - Clean up

At the end you can proceed to clean up by deleting the service and the deployment.

Let’s begin by deleting the service:

# kubectl delete service hello-world

If you list the services you will see that hello-world doesn’t exist anymore:

# kubectl delete service hello-world
service "hello-world" deleted
$ kubectl get services
No resources found.

Then, you can delete the deployment:

# kubectl delete deploy hello-world-deployment

And now if you list you deployment you will find no resources:

# kubectl delete deploy hello-world-deployment
deployment.extensions "hello-world-deployment" deleted
$ kubectl get deployments
No resources found.

If now you list the pods:

# kubectl get pods

you will see that the pod created for hello-world has been deleted too:

$ kubectl -n=default get pods
No resources found

Go further

To learn more about using your Kubernetes cluster the practical way, we invite you to look at our OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes doc site.