By Xianwei
Recently, Alibaba Cloud serverless Container Service for Kubernetes added support for mounting elastic IP addresses (EIPs) with pods. This feature further simplifies the deployment of some serverless container applications and service access.
Currently Serverless Kubernetes supports two methods of mounting EIPs: automatically assigning an EIP or specifying an EIP instance.
When the "k8s.aliyun.com/enable-eip" annotation is set to "true", Serverless Kubernetes automatically assigns an EIP to this pod and binds that IEP to the pod
Example:
#cat nginx-enable-eip-pod.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: nginx
annotations:
"k8s.aliyun.com/enable-eip": "true"
spec:
containers:
- image: registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/jovi/nginx:alpine
imagePullPolicy: Always
name: nginx
ports:
- containerPort: 80
name: http
protocol: TCP
restartPolicy: OnFailure
Create a pod:
#kubectl apply -f nginx-enable-eip-pod.yaml
pod "nginx" created
#kubectl get pod
nginx 1/1 Running 0 20s
View the IP address of the pod:
# kubectl describe pod
Name: nginx
Namespace: default
Node: viking-c7d16b6c584544f65bfa4eba3a8b04d63/
Start Time: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:19:47 +0800
Labels: <none>
Annotations: k8s.aliyun.com/allocated-eipAddress=47.96.67.132
k8s.aliyun.com/allocated-eipInstanceId=eip-bp1wtbt7vp18tgu5g7rb2
k8s.aliyun.com/enable-eip=true
kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration={"apiVersion":"v1","kind":"Pod","metadata":{"annotations":{"k8s.aliyun.com/enable-eip":"true"},"name":"nginx","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"container...
kubernetes.io/limit-ranger=LimitRanger plugin set: cpu, memory request for container nginx
Status: Running
IP: 10.1.89.103
Containers:
nginx:
Container ID: eci://779380281b08b325b4b7a1b66c4cb9e706985b25cde0c36345af93a308745b95
Image: registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/jovi/nginx:alpine
Image ID:
Port: 80/TCP
State: Running
Started: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:19:47 +0800
Ready: True
Restart Count: 0
Requests:
cpu: 1
memory: 2Gi
Environment: <none>
...
# kubectl describe pod|grep allocated-eipAddress
Annotations: k8s.aliyun.com/allocated-eipAddress=47.96.67.132
The Annotations of the pod shows the assigned EIP, which can be used to directly access that pod.
# curl 47.96.67.132
<! DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx! </title>
...
Because an EIP is dynamically assigned in this method, the lifecycle of the EIP is the same as that of the pod. When a pod is deleted, the EIP dynamically assigned to that pod is also deleted.
Note that if you are creating a Deployment, each pod in that Deployment will mount a different EIP. Please perform this action with caution.
Purchase an EIP in the EIP console first.
Set the "k8s.aliyun.com/eipInstanceId" annotation of the pod to an EIP instance ID:
# cat nginx-eipid-pod.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: nginx
annotations:
"k8s.aliyun.com/eipInstanceId": "eip-bp19trewkig3i9pnek99i"
spec:
containers:
- image: registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/jovi/nginx:alpine
imagePullPolicy: Always
name: nginx
ports:
- containerPort: 80
name: http
protocol: TCP
restartPolicy: OnFailure
Create a pod:
# kubectl apply -f nginx-eipid-pod.yaml
pod "nginx" created
# kubectl get pod
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
nginx 1/1 Running 0 20s
Access the pod by using the EIP:
# curl 47.111.20.92
<! DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx! </title>
<style>
body {
width: 35em;
margin: 0 auto;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to nginx! </h1>
...
In this method, when a pod is deleted, the pod and the EIP are unbound. When the pod is re-created, the EIP are bound to the pod again.
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