Pattern Library Introduction
Chef Habitat Pattern Library
The Chef Habitat Pattern Library is an evolving set of design patterns to use as starting-points. These patterns are examples and require configuration and customization for your unique situation.
For help with Chef Habitat and these patterns, ask:
- Your customer support agent
- In the Chef Discourse
Kubernetes Bastion Ring Pattern
A bastion ring is a robust type of Supervisor network in which a small number of Supervisors are set up as permanent peers and that are dedicated to anchoring Supervisor network communication. These Supervisors are designated solely for communication between Supervisor and do not run services. These solely to anchor the entire Supervisor network. See Supervisor Networks for more information. The following examples demonstrate running a bastion ring in Kubernetes.
Kubernetes Bastion Ring Plan
pkg_name=hab_bastion
pkg_origin=habitat
pkg_version="0.1.0"
pkg_maintainer="irvingpop"
pkg_license=("Apache-2.0")
pkg_deps=(core/busybox-static)
pkg_svc_run="while true; do sleep 60; done"
do_build() {
return 0
}
do_install() {
return 0
}
Kubernetes Bastion Ring Producer Pattern
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: hab-bastion
spec:
ports:
- name: gossip-listener
protocol: UDP
port: 9638
targetPort: 9638
- name: http-gateway
protocol: TCP
port: 9631
targetPort: 9631
selector:
app: hab-bastion
clusterIP: None
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: hab-bastion
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: hab-bastion
serviceName: hab-bastion
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: hab-bastion
spec:
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
securityContext:
fsGroup: 42
containers:
- name: hab-bastion
image: irvingpop/hab_bastion:latest
args:
- '--permanent-peer'
resources:
requests:
memory: "100Mi"
cpu: "100m" # equivalent to 0.1 of a CPU core
ports:
- name: gossip-listener
protocol: UDP
containerPort: 9638
- name: http-gateway
protocol: TCP
containerPort: 9631
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /
port: 9631
initialDelaySeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 10
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /
port: 9631
initialDelaySeconds: 15
periodSeconds: 20
volumeMounts:
- name: hab-bastion
mountPath: /hab/sup
volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: hab-bastion
spec:
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
# uncomment if you don't have a default storageclass
# storageClassName: "standard"
resources:
requests:
storage: 10Gi
Kubernetes Bastion Ring Consumer Pattern
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: cockroachdb
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: cockroachdb
serviceName: cockroachdb
replicas: 3
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: cockroachdb
spec:
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
securityContext:
fsGroup: 42
containers:
- name: cockroachdb
image: irvingpop/cockroach:latest
args:
- --peer
- hab-bastion
- --topology
- leader
# env:
# - name: HAB_COCKROACH
# value: |
resources:
requests:
memory: "300Mi"
cpu: "500m" # equivalent to 0.5 CPU core
ports:
- name: http
containerPort: 8080
- name: cockroachdb
containerPort: 26257
volumeMounts:
- name: cockroachdb-data
mountPath: /hab/svc/cockroach/data
volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: cockroachdb-data
spec:
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
resources:
requests:
storage: 10Gi
hab pkg download Patterns
The hab pkg download
command can be used to download individual
packages (along with their dependencies and keys) from Builder,
without installing them. This allows you to more easily transfer
packages from one Builder instance to another, or to take a selective
snapshot of particular packages.
While you can download packages one-at-a-time, it can be more convenient to use a file to specify your packages. Two formats are recognized: plain text and TOML.
Plain Text Download Descriptors
The simplest thing you can do is create a plain text file with a package identifier on each line, like so:
# These are the packages needed to run a Supervisor
core/hab-launcher
core/hab
core/hab-sup
Each line is a valid package identifier. You can also add comments using #
.
To download these packages (and their dependencies), save that to a file named supervisor.txt
and run:
hab pkg download --file=supervisor.txt
This will download the packages into your existing Habitat cache directory.
Alternatively, you can specify a directory using the --download-directory
option.
(You can also specify --channel
and --target
to further control which specific packages you download; run hab pkg download --help
for more).
TOML Download Descriptors
Plain text is fine for simple cases, but has drawbacks. For instance, all packages will come from the same channel and will be for the same platform target. For maximum flexibility, you’ll want to use TOML to write your download descriptor. Here is an example of one that the Habitat core team uses to take periodic snapshots of everything needed to run Builder itself:
format_version = 1
file_descriptor = "Packages needed to run an instance of Builder"
[[x86_64-linux]]
channel = "stable"
packages = [
# Supervisor and prerequisites
"core/hab-launcher",
"core/hab",
"core/hab-sup",
# Utilities
"core/sumologic",
"core/nmap"
]
# Targets can be repeated to specify additional subsets of packages,
# possibly from different channels
[[x86_64-linux]]
channel = "stable"
packages = [
# Builder services
"habitat/builder-api",
"habitat/builder-api-proxy",
"habitat/builder-jobsrv",
"habitat/builder-worker",
"habitat/builder-memcached",
]
[[x86_64-linux-kernel2]]
channel = "stable"
packages = [
# Supervisor and prerequisites
"core/hab-launcher",
"core/hab",
"core/hab-sup",
"habitat/builder-worker"
]
[[x86_64-windows]]
channel = "stable"
packages = [
# Supervisor and prerequisites
"core/windows-service",
"core/hab",
"core/hab-sup",
"habitat/builder-worker"
]
This format allows us to specify multiple subsets of packages from different channels and for different architectures.
Here, we are pulling down all the core service packages, which run on Linux, but are also pulling down the platform-specific versions of the
habitat/builder-worker
package.
Without this format, we would have to invoke hab pkg download
multiple times with different parameters.
The file allows us to capture our full intention in one place.