Deploy a PHP Guestbook stateless application with Redis on Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster on Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU

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This article shows you how to build and deploy a simple, multi-tier web application using Kubernetes and Azure Arc. This example consists of the following components:

• A single-instance Redis master to store guestbook entries
• Multiple replicated Redis instances to serve reads
• Multiple web frontend instances

The deployment is done using GitOps on the Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster on your Azure Stack Edge Pro device.

This procedure is intended for people who have reviewed the Kubernetes workloads on Azure Stack Edge Pro device and are familiar with the concepts of What is Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Preview).

Prerequisites

Before you can deploy the stateless application, make sure that you have completed the following prerequisites on your device and the client that you will use to access the device:

For device

1. You have sign-in credentials to a 1-node Azure Stack Edge Pro device.

   1. The device is activated. See Activate the device.
   2. The device has the compute role configured via Azure portal and has a Kubernetes cluster. See Configure compute.

2. You have enabled Azure Arc on the existing Kubernetes cluster on your device and you have a corresponding Azure Arc resource in the Azure portal. For detailed steps, see Enable Azure Arc on Azure Stack Edge Pro device.

For client accessing the device

1. You have a Windows client system that will be used to access the Azure Stack Edge Pro device.

   • The client is running Windows PowerShell 5.0 or later. To download the latest version of Windows PowerShell, go to Install Windows PowerShell.

   • You can have any other client with a Supported operating system as well. This article describes the procedure when using a Windows client.

2. You have completed the procedure described in Access the Kubernetes cluster on Azure Stack Edge Pro device. You have:

   • Installed kubectl on the client.

   • Make sure that the kubectl client version is skewed no more than one version from the Kubernetes master version running on your Azure Stack Edge Pro device.

     • Use kubectl version to check the version of kubectl running on the client. Make a note of the full version.
     • In the local UI of your Azure Stack Edge Pro device, go to Overview and note the Kubernetes software number.
     • Verify these two versions for compatibility from the mapping provided in the Supported Kubernetes version.

3. You have a GitOps configuration that you can use to run an Azure Arc deployment. In this example, you will use the following yaml files to deploy on your Azure Stack Edge Pro device.

   • frontend-deployment.yaml
   • frontend-service.yaml
   • redis-master-deployment.yaml
   • redis-master-service.yaml
   • redis-slave-deployment.yaml
   • redis-slave-service.yaml

Deploy configuration

Follow these steps to configure the Azure Arc resource to deploy a GitOps configuration via the Azure portal:

1. In your Azure portal, go to the Azure Arc resource that you have created when you enabled Azure Arc on the Kubernetes cluster on your device.

   

2. Go to Configurations and select + Add configuration.

   

3. Specify the Flux version 1 Extension.

4. In Add a GitOps configuration, enter the appropriate values for the fields, and then select Add.

   Parameter	Description
   Configuration name	Name for the configuration resource.
   Operator instance name	Instance name of the operator to identify a specific configuration. Name is a string of maximum 253 characters that must be lowercase, alphanumeric, hyphen, and period only.
   Operator namespace	Set to demotestguestbook to match the namespace specified in the deployment yaml. The field defines the namespace where the operator is installed. Name is a string of maximum 253 characters that must be lowercase, alphanumeric, hyphen, and period only.
   Repository URL	Path to the git repository in http://github.com/username/repo or git://github.com/username/repo format where your GitOps configuration is located.
   Operator scope	Select Namespace. This parameter defines the scope at which the operator is installed. Select Namespace to install your operator in the namespace specified in the deployment yaml files.
   Operator type	Leave at default. This parameter specifies the type of the operator - by default, set as flux.
   Operator params	Leave this blank. This parameter contains parameters to pass to the flux operator.
   Helm	Leave this checkbox Unchecked. Enable this option if you will do chart-based deployments.

   

5. The configuration deployment starts and the Operator state shows as Pending.

   

6. The deployment takes a couple minutes. When the deployment completes, the Operator state shows as Installed.

   

Verify deployment

The deployment via the GitOps configuration creates a demotestguestbook namespace as specified in the deployment yaml files located in the git repo.

1. After you have applied the GitOps configuration, Connect to the PowerShell interface of the device.

2. Run the following command to list the pods running in the demotestguestbook namespace corresponding to the deployment.

   kubectl get pods -n <your-namespace>

   Here is a sample output.

   [10.128.44.240]: PS>kubectl get pods -n demotestguestbook
   NAME                            READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   aseoperator1-5569658644-cqtb5   1/1     Running   0          91m
   frontend-6cb7f8bd65-4xb4f       1/1     Running   0          91m
   frontend-6cb7f8bd65-q9cxj       1/1     Running   0          91m
   frontend-6cb7f8bd65-xpzs6       1/1     Running   0          91m
   memcached-86bdf9f56b-5l2fq      1/1     Running   0          91m
   redis-master-7db7f6579f-2z29w   1/1     Running   0          91m
   redis-slave-7664787fbc-lgr2n    1/1     Running   0          91m
   redis-slave-7664787fbc-vlvzn    1/1     Running   0          91m
   [10.128.44.240]: PS>
   

3. In this example, the frontend service was deployed as type:LoadBalancer. You will need to find the IP address of this service to view the guestbook. Run the following command.

   kubectl get service -n <your-namespace>

   [10.128.44.240]: PS>kubectl get service -n demotestguestbook
   NAME           TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP     PORT(S)        AGE
   frontend       LoadBalancer   10.96.79.38      10.128.44.245   80:31238/TCP   85m
   memcached      ClusterIP      10.102.47.75     <none>          11211/TCP      85m
   redis-master   ClusterIP      10.104.32.99     <none>          6379/TCP       85m
   redis-slave    ClusterIP      10.104.215.146   <none>          6379/TCP       85m
   [10.128.44.240]: PS>
   

4. The frontend service of type:LoadBalancer has an external IP address. This IP is from the IP address range that you specified for external services when configuring the Compute network settings on the device. Use this IP address to view the guestbook at URL: https://<external-IP-address>.

   

Delete deployment

To delete the deployment, you can delete the configuration from the Azure portal. Deleting the configuration will delete the objects that were created, including deployments and services.

1. In the Azure portal, go the Azure Arc resource > Configurations.
2. Locate the configuration you want to delete. Select the ... to invoke the context menu and select Delete.

It may take up several minutes for the configuration to be deleted.

Next steps

Learn how to Use Kubernetes Dashboard to monitor deployments on your Azure Stack Edge Pro device