HashiCorp Consul packaged by Bitnami¶

HashiCorp Consul is a tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure.

Overview of HashiCorp Consul

Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR¶

使用加速地址添加仓库:

helm repo add bitnami "https://helm-charts.itboon.top/bitnami" --force-update
helm update bitnami

helm install my-release bitnami/consul

Introduction¶

This chart bootstraps a HashiCorp Consul deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters.

Looking to use HashiCorp Consul in production? Try VMware Application Catalog, the enterprise edition of Bitnami Application Catalog.

Prerequisites¶

• Kubernetes 1.19+
• Helm 3.2.0+
• PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure

Installing the Chart¶

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

helm install my-release bitnami/consul

These commands deploy HashiCorp Consul on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart¶

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release. Remove also the chart using --purge option:

helm delete --purge my-release

Parameters¶

Global parameters¶

Common parameters¶

HashiCorp Consul parameters¶

Statefulset parameters¶

Exposure parameters¶

Persistence parameters¶

Volume Permissions parameters¶

Metrics parameters¶

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

helm install my-release --set domain=consul-domain,gossipKey=secretkey bitnami/consul

The above command sets the HashiCorp Consul domain to consul-domain and sets the gossip key to secretkey.

NOTE: Once this chart is deployed, it is not possible to change the application's access credentials, such as usernames or passwords, using Helm. To change these application credentials after deployment, delete any persistent volumes (PVs) used by the chart and re-deploy it, or use the application's built-in administrative tools if available.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the above parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

helm install my-release -f values.yaml bitnami/consul

Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Configuration and installation details¶

Rolling VS Immutable tags¶

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Using custom configuration¶

This helm chart supports to customize the whole configuration file.

You can specify the Hashicorp Consul configuration using the configuration parameter.

In addition to this option, you can also set an external ConfigMap with all the configuration files. This is done by setting the existingConfigmap parameter. Note that this will override the previous option.

Ingress¶

This chart provides support for ingress resources. If you have an ingress controller installed on your cluster, such as nginx-ingress or traefik you can utilize the ingress controller to serve your ASP.NET Core application.

To enable ingress integration, please set ingress.enabled to true.

Hosts¶

Most likely you will only want to have one hostname that maps to this ASP.NET Core installation. If that's your case, the property ingress.hostname will set it. However, it is possible to have more than one host. To facilitate this, the ingress.extraHosts object can be specified as an array. You can also use ingress.extraTLS to add the TLS configuration for extra hosts.

For each host indicated at ingress.extraHosts, please indicate a name, path, and any annotations that you may want the ingress controller to know about.

For annotations, please see this document. Not all annotations are supported by all ingress controllers, but this document does a good job of indicating which annotation is supported by many popular ingress controllers.

TLS Secrets¶

This chart will facilitate the creation of TLS secrets for use with the ingress controller, however, this is not required. There are three common use cases:

• Helm generates/manages certificate secrets
• User generates/manages certificates separately
• An additional tool (like cert-manager) manages the secrets for the application

In the first two cases, one will need a certificate and a key. We would expect them to look like this:

• certificate files should look like (and there can be more than one certificate if there is a certificate chain)

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIID6TCCAtGgAwIBAgIJAIaCwivkeB5EMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMFYxCzAJBgNV
...
jScrvkiBO65F46KioCL9h5tDvomdU1aqpI/CBzhvZn1c0ZTf87tGQR8NK7v7
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

• keys should look like:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEogIBAAKCAQEAvLYcyu8f3skuRyUgeeNpeDvYBCDcgq+LsWap6zbX5f8oLqp4
...
wrj2wDbCDCFmfqnSJ+dKI3vFLlEz44sAV8jX/kd4Y6ZTQhlLbYc=
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

If you are going to use Helm to manage the certificates, please copy these values into the certificate and key values for a given ingress.secrets entry.

If you are going to manage TLS secrets outside of Helm, please know that you can create a TLS secret (named consul-ui.local-tls for example).

Please see this example for more information.

Enable TLS encryption between servers¶

You must manually create a secret containing your PEM-encoded certificate authority, your PEM-encoded certificate, and your PEM-encoded private key.

Take into account that you will need to create a config map with the proper configuration.

If the secret is specified, the chart will locate those files at /opt/bitnami/consul/certs/, so you will want to use the below snippet to configure HashiCorp Consul TLS encryption in your config map:

  "ca_file": "/opt/bitnami/consul/certs/ca.pem",
  "cert_file": "/opt/bitnami/consul/certs/consul.pem",
  "key_file": "/opt/bitnami/consul/certs/consul-key.pem",
  "verify_incoming": true,
  "verify_outgoing": true,
  "verify_server_hostname": true,

After creating the secret, you can install the helm chart specyfing the secret name using tlsEncryptionSecretName=consul-tls-encryption.

Metrics¶

The chart can optionally start a metrics exporter endpoint on port 9107 for prometheus. The data exposed by the endpoint is intended to be consumed by a prometheus chart deployed within the cluster and as such the endpoint is not exposed outside the cluster.

Adding extra environment variables¶

In case you want to add extra environment variables (useful for advanced operations like custom init scripts), you can use the extraEnvVars property.

extraEnvVars:
  - name: LOG_LEVEL
    value: error

Alternatively, you can use a ConfigMap or a Secret with the environment variables. To do so, use the .extraEnvVarsCM or the extraEnvVarsSecret properties.

Setting Pod's affinity¶

This chart allows you to set your custom affinity using the affinity parameter. Find more information about Pod's affinity in the kubernetes documentation.

As an alternative, you can use of the preset configurations for pod affinity, pod anti-affinity, and node affinity available at the bitnami/common chart. To do so, set the podAffinityPreset, podAntiAffinityPreset, or nodeAffinityPreset parameters.

Sidecars and Init Containers¶

If you have a need for additional containers to run within the same pod as MongoDB®, you can do so via the sidecars config parameter. Simply define your container according to the Kubernetes container spec.

sidecars:
  - name: your-image-name
    image: your-image
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    ports:
      - name: portname
       containerPort: 1234

Similarly, you can add extra init containers using the initContainers parameter.

initContainers:
  - name: your-image-name
    image: your-image
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    ports:
      - name: portname
        containerPort: 1234

Persistence¶

The Bitnami HashiCorp Consul image stores the HashiCorp Consul data at the /bitnami path of the container.

Persistent Volume Claims are used to keep the data across deployments. This is known to work in GCE, AWS, and minikube. See the Parameters section to configure the PVC or to disable persistence.

Adjust permissions of persistent volume mountpoint¶

As the image run as non-root by default, it is necessary to adjust the ownership of the persistent volume so that the container can write data into it.

By default, the chart is configured to use Kubernetes Security Context to automatically change the ownership of the volume. However this feature does not work in all Kubernetes distributions. As an alternative, this chart supports using an initContainer to change the ownership of the volume before mounting it in the final destination.

You can enable this initContainer by setting volumePermissions.enabled to true.

Troubleshooting¶

Find more information about how to deal with common errors related to Bitnami's Helm charts in this troubleshooting guide.

Upgrading¶

To 10.0.0¶

This major release renames several values in this chart and adds missing features, in order to be inline with the rest of assets in the Bitnami charts repository.

Affected values:

• service.port renamed as service.port.http.
• service.nodePort renamed as service.nodePorts.http.
• updateStrategy changed from String type (previously default to 'rollingUpdate') to Object type, allowing users to configure other updateStrategy parameters, similar to other charts.

To 9.0.0¶

On November 13, 2020, Helm v2 support was formally finished, this major version is the result of the required changes applied to the Helm Chart to be able to incorporate the different features added in Helm v3 and to be consistent with the Helm project itself regarding the Helm v2 EOL.

What changes were introduced in this major version?¶

• Previous versions of this Helm Chart use apiVersion: v1 (installable by both Helm 2 and 3), this Helm Chart was updated to apiVersion: v2 (installable by Helm 3 only). Here you can find more information about the apiVersion field.
• Move dependency information from the requirements.yaml to the Chart.yaml
• After running helm dependency update, a Chart.lock file is generated containing the same structure used in the previous requirements.lock
• The different fields present in the Chart.yaml file has been ordered alphabetically in a homogeneous way for all the Bitnami Helm Charts

Considerations when upgrading to this version¶

• If you want to upgrade to this version from a previous one installed with Helm v3, you shouldn't face any issues
• If you want to upgrade to this version using Helm v2, this scenario is not supported as this version doesn't support Helm v2 anymore
• If you installed the previous version with Helm v2 and wants to upgrade to this version with Helm v3, please refer to the official Helm documentation about migrating from Helm v2 to v3

Useful links¶

• https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/resolve-helm2-helm3-post-migration-issues/
• https://helm.sh/docs/topics/v2_v3_migration/
• https://helm.sh/blog/migrate-from-helm-v2-to-helm-v3/

To 8.0.0¶

• Several parameters were renamed or disappeared in favor of new ones on this major version:
• securityContext.* is deprecated in favor of podSecurityContext and containerSecurityContext.
• replicas is renamed to replicaCount.
• updateStrategy.type is renamed to updateStrategy.
• configmap is renamed to configuration.
• Chart labels were adapted to follow the Helm charts standard labels.
• This version also introduces bitnami/common, a library chart as a dependency. More documentation about this new utility could be found here. Please, make sure that you have updated the chart dependencies before executing any upgrade.

To 7.0.0¶

Consul pods are now deployed in parallel in order to bootstrap the cluster and be discovered.

The field podManagementPolicy can't be updated in a StatefulSet, so you need to destroy it before you upgrade the chart to this version.

kubectl delete statefulset consul
helm upgrade <DEPLOYMENT_NAME> bitnami/consul

To 6.0.0¶

This release updates the Bitnami Consul container to 1.6.1-debian-9-r6, which is based on Bash instead of Node.js.

To 3.1.0¶

Consul container was moved to a non-root approach. There shouldn't be any issue when upgrading since the corresponding securityContext is enabled by default. Both the container image and the chart can be upgraded by running the command below:

helm upgrade my-release bitnami/consul

If you use a previous container image (previous to 1.4.0-r16) disable the securityContext by running the command below:

helm upgrade my-release bitnami/consul --set securityContext.enabled=false,image.tag=XXX

To 2.0.0¶

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless you modify the labels used on the chart's deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 2.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is consul:

kubectl delete statefulset consul --cascade=false

License¶

Copyright © 2023 VMware, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.