sample-controller

This repository implements a simple controller for watching Foo resources as defined with a CustomResourceDefinition (CRD).

This particular example demonstrates how to perform basic operations such as:

• How to register a new custom resource (custom resource type) of type Foo using a CustomResourceDefinition.
• How to create/get/list instances of your new resource type Foo.
• How to setup a controller on resource handling create/update/delete events.

It makes use of the generators in k8s.io/code-generator to generate a typed client, informers, listers and deep-copy functions. You can do this yourself using the ./hack/update-codegen.sh script.

The update-codegen script will automatically generate the following files & directories:

• pkg/apis/samplecontroller/v1alpha1/zz_generated.deepcopy.go
• pkg/client/

Changes should not be made to these files manually, and when creating your own controller based off of this implementation you should not copy these files and instead run the update-codegen script to generate your own.

Purpose

This is an example of how to build a kube-like controller with a single type.

Running

# assumes you have a working kubeconfig, not required if operating in-cluster
$ go run *.go -kubeconfig=$HOME/.kube/config

# create a CustomResourceDefinition
$ kubectl create -f artifacts/examples/crd.yaml

# create a custom resource of type Foo
$ kubectl create -f artifacts/examples/example-foo.yaml

# check deployments created through the custom resource
$ kubectl get deployments

Use Cases

CustomResourceDefinitions can be used to implement custom resource types for your Kubernetes cluster. These act like most other Resources in Kubernetes, and may be kubectl apply'd, etc.

Some example use cases:

• Provisioning/Management of external datastores/databases (eg. CloudSQL/RDS instances)
• Higher level abstractions around Kubernetes primitives (eg. a single Resource to define an etcd cluster, backed by a Service and a ReplicationController)

Defining types

Each instance of your custom resource has an attached Spec, which should be defined via a struct{} to provide data format validation. In practice, this Spec is arbitrary key-value data that specifies the configuration/behavior of your Resource.

For example, if you were implementing a custom resource for a Database, you might provide a DatabaseSpec like the following:

type DatabaseSpec struct {
	Databases []string `json:"databases"`
	Users     []User   `json:"users"`
	Version   string   `json:"version"`
}

type User struct {
	Name     string `json:"name"`
	Password string `json:"password"`
}

Cleanup

You can clean up the created CustomResourceDefinition with:

$ kubectl delete crd foos.samplecontroller.k8s.io

Compatibility

HEAD of this repository will match HEAD of k8s.io/apimachinery and k8s.io/client-go.

Where does it come from?

sample-controller is synced from https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-controller. Code changes are made in that location, merged into k8s.io/kubernetes and later synced here.