@flowfuse/driver-kubernetes

FlowForge Docker Container Driver

FlowForge driver to create projects as docker containers

Configuration

In the flowforge.yml file

...
driver:
  type: kubernetes
  options:
    registry: containers.flowforge.com
    projectSelector:
      role: projects
    projectNamespace: flowforge
    cloudProvider: aws
    privateCA: ff-ca-certs
    certManagerIssuer: lets-encrypt
    k8sDelay: 1000
    k8sRetries: 10
    logPassthrough: true
    customHostname:
      enabled: true
      cnameTarget: custom-loadbalancer.example.com
      certManagerIssuer: lets-encrypt
      ingressClass: custom-nginx
    storage:
      enabled: true
      storageClass: nfs-storage
      size: 5Gi
    podSecurityContext:
      runAsUser: 1000
      runAsGroup: 1000
      fsGroup: 1000

• registry is the Docker Registry to load Stack Containers from
• projectNamespace the namespace Project pods should run in
• projectSelector a list of labels that should be used to select which nodes Project Pods should run on
• cloudProvider normally not set, but can be aws This triggers the adding of AWS EKS specific annotation for ALB Ingress. or openshift to allow running on OpenShift (Enterprise license only)
• privateCA name of ConfigMap holding PEM CA Cert Bundle (file name certs.pem) Optional
• certManagerIssuer name of the ClusterIssuer to use to create HTTPS certs for instances (default not set)
• k8sRetries how many times to retry actions against the K8s API
• k8sDelay how long to wait (in ms) between retries to the K8s API
• logPassthrough Have Node-RED logs printed in JSON format to container stdout (default false)
• customHostname Settings linked to allowing instances to have a second hostname
• customHostname.enabled (default false)
• customHostname.cnameTarget The hostname users should configure their DNS entries to point at. Required. (default not set)
• customHostname.certManagerIssuer Name of the Cluster issuer to use to create HTTPS certs for the custom hostname (default not set)
• customHostname.ingressClass Name of the IngressClass to use to expose the custom hostname (default not set)
• storage.enabled Mounts a persistent volume on /data/storage (default false)
• storage.storageClass Name of StorageClass to use to allocate the volume (default not set)
• storage.storageClassEFSTag Used instead of storage.storageClass when needing to shard across multiple EFS file systems (default not set)
• storage.size Size of the volume to request (default not set)
• podSecurityContext Settings linked to the security context of the pod

Expects to pick up K8s credentials from the environment

Configuration via environment variables

Next variables are read from flowforge process environment in runtime:

• INGRESS_CLASS_NAME - Ingress class name for editor instances
• INGRESS_ANNOTATIONS - Ingress annotations for editor instances as JSON-encoded object
• DEPLOYMENT_TOLERATIONS - Editor Deployment tolerations as JSON-encoded object
• EDITOR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT - Editor service account.

Changelog

2.14.1: Release

• Only restart active MQTT Agents (#204) @hardillb