gcp-cloud-provider

Description

This subordinate charm manages the cloud controller-manager components for gcp.

Requirements

• these polices are defined as prerequisites
• the primary unit, the gcp-integrator application must have access to create IAM Policies

Usage

The charm requires gcp credentials and connection information, which can be provided the gcp-integration relation to the GCP Integrator charm.

Deployment

Quickstart

The GCP Cloud Provider subordinate charm can be deployed alongside Charmed Kubernetes using the overlay provided in the Charmed Kubernetes bundle repository:

juju deploy charmed-kubernetes --overlay gcp-cloud-overlay.yaml

The full process

juju deploy charmed-kubernetes
juju deploy gcp-integrator --trust
juju deploy gcp-cloud-provider

juju relate gcp-cloud-provider:certificates            easyrsa
juju relate gcp-cloud-provider:kube-control            kubernetes-control-plane
juju relate gcp-cloud-provider:external-cloud-provider kubernetes-control-plane
juju relate gcp-cloud-provider:gcp-integration         gcp-integrator

##  wait for the gcp controller daemonset to be running
# the cloud-controller will set the node's ProviderID
kubectl describe nodes |egrep "Taints:|Name:|Provider"

Storage

• to access Native GCP storage, see the GCP Storage charm.

Details

• Requires a charmed-kubernetes deployment on a gcp cloud launched by juju with the allow-privileged flag enabled.
• Deploy the gcp-integrator charm into the model using --trust so juju provided vsphere credentials
• Deploy the gcp-cloud-provider charm in the model relating to the integrator and to charmed-kubernetes components
• Once the model is active/idle, the cloud-provider charm will have successfully deployed the gcp controller-manager in the kube-system namespace
• Taint the existing nodes so the controller will apply the correct provider id to those nodes.
• Confirm the ProviderID is set on each node
• For the controller to operate, the gcp-integrator charm will apply the appropriate IAM policies and standardize the cluster-tag
• the Kubernetes-Worker and Kuberenetes-Control-Plane charms start their binaries with --external-provider rather than the in-tree switch --cloud-provider=gcp which has been removed starting in kubernetes 1.27

Contributing

Please see the Juju SDK docs for guidelines on enhancements to this charm following best practice guidelines, and CONTRIBUTING.md for developer guidance.