Installing Kanister

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.8 or higher with Beta APIs enabled

• kubectl installed and setup

• helm installed and initialized using the command helm init

• kanctl installed

• Access to an S3 compatible bucket and credentials.

• Docker (for source-based installs only)

Deploying via Helm

This will install the Kanister controller in the kanister namespace

# Add Kanister charts
$ helm repo add kanister https://charts.kanister.io/

# Install the Kanister operator controller using helm
$ helm install --name myrelease --namespace kanister kanister/kanister-operator --set image.tag=0.37.0

# Create an S3 Compliant Kanister profile using kanctl
$ kanctl create profile s3compliant --bucket <bucket> --access-key ${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID} \
                                    --secret-key ${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}               \
                                    --region <region>                                   \
                                    --namespace kanister

Building and Deploying from Source

Use the following commands to build, package, and deploy the controller to your Kubernetes cluster. It will push the controller docker image to your docker repo <MY REGISTRY> and the controller will be deployed in the default namespace.

# Build controller binary
$ make build

# Package the binary in a docker image and push it to your image registry
$ make release-controller REGISTRY=<MY REGISTRY>

# Deploy the controller to your Kubernetes repo
$ make deploy REGISTRY=<MY REGISTRY>

Deploy a Released Version

To deploy a released version of the controller, issue the command below. Modify the namespace fields in bundle.yaml.in to deploy in a namespace of your choice. By default, the controller will be deployed into the default namespace.

# Deploy controller version 0.37.0 to Kubernetes
$ make deploy VERSION="0.37.0"