Deploying WordPress on an existing one-node EKS cluster

Services Covered

  •  EKS

Lab description

This lab comes with an EKS cluster provided by Cloud Academy – it consists of one EC2 Worker Node

Learning Objectives

  • Use an EC2 instance to issue commands against the EKS cluster.
  • Manage EKS Kubernetes cluster, install several Kubernetes management-related tools and utilities
  • Launch the backend MySQL database using the previously prepared Kubernetes deployment
  • Launch the frontend Web server using the previously prepared Kubernetes deployment

Lab date

23-12-2021

Prerequisites

  • AWS account
  • EC2 instance running

Lab steps

  1. Launch an instance to be used to connect to EKS cluster. Then use Instance Connect. This lab comes with EKS cluster and six EBS Volumes for persistence storage

    And three EC2 instances

  2. Using the EC2 Connect download the kubectl utility: 
    curl -o kubectl https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.21.2/2021-07-05/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo cp ./kubectl /usr/local/bin
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

    Download the AWS CLI utility, give it executable permissions, and copy it into a directory that is part of the PATH environment variable

    curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

    Use the aws utility, to retrieve EKS Cluster name:

    EKS_CLUSTER_NAME=$(aws eks list-clusters --region us-west-2 --query clusters[0] --output text)
echo $EKS_CLUSTER_NAME

    Use the aws utility to query and retrieve your Amazon EKS cluster connection details, saving them into the ~/.kube/config file

    aws eks update-kubeconfig --name $EKS_CLUSTER_NAME --region us-west-2

    View the EKS Cluster connection details.

    cat ~/.kube/config

    Use the kubectl utility to list the EKS Cluster Worker Nodes:

    kubectl get nodes

    Use the kubectl utility to describe in more detail the EKS Cluster Worker Nodes:

    kubectl describe nodes
  3. Install the git command and then clone the CloudAcademy k8s-wordpress Github repository: 
    sudo yum -y install git curl-devel
git clone https://github.com/cloudacademy/k8s-wordpress.git
cd k8s-wordpress

    Retrieve the AZ (Availability Zone) that the first EKS worker node has been deployed into

    EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ=$(kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath="{.items[*].metadata.labels.topology.kubernetes.io/zone}" | cut -d" " -f1)
echo $EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ

    Discover the dedicated backend MySQL EBS Volume that was automatically created during the lab provisioning process. Query for the Volume ID and then update the respective Kubernetes deployment YAML file for launching the backend MySQL database:

    VOLUMEID_DB=$(aws ec2 describe-volumes --region us-west-2 
 --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=wordpress.mysql.volume" "Name=tag:Zone,Values=$EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ" 
 --query Volumes[0].VolumeId 
 --output text)
echo $VOLUMEID_DB

sed -i.bak s/EBS_VOLUME_ID/$VOLUMEID_DB/g wordpress.deployment.mysql.yaml
sed -i.bak s/EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ/$EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ/g wordpress.deployment.mysql.yaml

echo updated:
cat wordpress.deployment.mysql.yaml | grep 'volumeID|zone'

    Discover the dedicated frontend Web Server EBS Volume that was automatically created during the lab provisioning process. Query for the Volume ID and then update the respective Kubernetes deployment YAML file for launching the frontend Web server:

    VOLUMEID_WEB=$(aws ec2 describe-volumes --region us-west-2 
 --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=wordpress.web.volume" "Name=tag:Zone,Values=$EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ" 
 --query Volumes[0].VolumeId 
 --output text)
echo $VOLUMEID_WEB

sed -i.bak s/EBS_VOLUME_ID/$VOLUMEID_WEB/g wordpress.deployment.web.yaml
sed -i.bak s/EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ/$EKS_WORKER_NODE_AZ/g wordpress.deployment.web.yaml

echo updated:
cat wordpress.deployment.web.yaml | grep 'volumeID|zone'
  4. Launch the backend MySQL database using the previously prepared Kubernetes deployment wordpress.deployment.mysql.yaml 
    kubectl create -f wordpress.deployment.mysql.yaml

    Examine the status of the backend MySQL database pod:

    kubectl get pods

  5. Launch the frontend Web server using the previously prepared Kubernetes deployment wordpress.deployment.web.yaml 
    kubectl create -f wordpress.deployment.web.yaml

    Examine the status of the frontend Web server pod:

    kubectl get pods

  6. Examine the existing deployed Kubernetes Services using the following command. 
    kubectl get services -o wide
  7. Open a new web browser tab and navigate to the host
  8. Run the following command to delete your Secret: 
    kubectl delete secret mysql-pass

    Run the following command to delete all Deployments:

    kubectl delete deployment -l app=wordpress

    Run the following command to delete all Services:

    kubectl delete service -l app=wordpress

    Perform the following list of commands to confirm that all Kubernetes resources have been removed:

    kubectl get deployments
kubectl get pods
kubectl get services
kubectl get secrets

Lab files

Acknowledgements

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