Deploy PPM on AWS EKS (Beta)

This section provides the details on how to deploy PPM on AWS EKS.

In this topic:

Set up AWS EKS environment

1. Install the command line tools that are required to create and manage an AWS EKS cluster.

   For details, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started-eksctl.html.

2. Create an Amazon EKS cluster.

   See the example eksctl create cluster -f spec/01-cluster.yaml for reference.

   For details, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/create-cluster.html.

3. Create a Kubernetes namespace.

   See the example kubectl apply -f spec/02-ns-and-sa.yaml for reference.

   For details, see https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/namespaces/#creating-a-new-namespace.

4. Create an Amazon EFS filesystem as PPM shared folder.

   An example sample/aws_efs.md is provided for your reference.

   For details, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/efs-csi.html.

5. Create an Amazon MQ instance.

   PPM uses external messaging queue system in Kubernetes. Therefore, you need to create an Amazon MQ instance. For details, see https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq.

6. Set up private docker registry with AWS ECR.

   An example sample/aws_ecr.md is provided for your reference.

   For details, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide.

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Create PPM docker image

1. Install your PPM in a local disk or in an EC2 Virtual Machine.

2. In the machine where your PPM is installed, run the following commands to create PPM docker image:

   1. cd <ppm_home>

   2. docker build -f utilities/k8s/Dockerfile -t ppm:latest

   3. docker tag ppm:latest 044456413569.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ppm-ecr:latest

3. Push the docker image to ECR by running the following command:

   docker push 044456413569.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ppm-ecr:latest

   Replace 044456413569.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ppm-ecr with your account path.

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Deploy PPM on AWS EKS

1. Configure the parameters in server.conf:

   An example resources/server.conf is provided for your reference.

   1. Run the following command to configure external JMS URL with your MQ link:

      • com.kintana.core.server.JMS_BROKER_URL=<you MQ link>

        For example: com.kintana.core.server.JMS_BROKER_URL=ssl://b-1898ca83-2e13-4c48-bc89-80bb177c8cee-1.mq.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:61617>

      • com.kintana.core.server.JMS_USERNAME=xxx

      • com.kintana.core.server.JMS_PASSWORD=xxxx

   2. Configure the base URL with your ALB public URL or your domain.

2. Copy the shared files to EFS filesystem.

   • Run the following command to copy the server.conf configured in step1 to EFS filesystem:

     kubectl cp resources/server.conf <namespace>/<kubernetes-pod>:/data/

   • Run the following command to copy the security folder to EFS filesystem:

     kubectl cp resources/security <namespace>/<kubernetes-pod>:/data/

3. Start up the Amazon cluster by running the following command:

   kubectl apply -f spec/06-app-service.yamlthe

4. Start up ingress to get the base URL by running the following command:

   kubectl apply -f spec/07-ingress.yaml

   Note: Add the host parameter if bound to a domain. For details, see https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#name-based-virtual-hosting.

   Limitation: ALB does not support session sticky with cookie. It only supports IP persistence mode.

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Set up Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Set up an Application Load Balancer (ALB).

See the following examples for reference.

sample/ aws_alb.md

kubectl apply -f spec/05-rbac-role.yaml

kubectl apply -f spec/04-alb-ingress-controller.yaml

For details, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/introduction.html

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Visit PPM Base URL

1. Run the following command to get the PPM base URL in Amazon:

   kubectl get ingress -n ppm-ns

   The output is similar as follows:

   NAME HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE

   ppm-ingress * 7c2f2fa8-ppmns-microingres-10f6-512963143.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com 80 20h

2. Copy the returned address to your web browser to visit your PPM base URL in Amazon.

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