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Version: v1.9

Propagate a CRD application with Karmada

This section guides you to cover:

  • Install Karmada control plane.
  • Propagate a CRD application to multiple clusters.
  • Customize the application within a specific cluster.

Start up Karmada clusters

To start up Karmada, you can refer to here. If you just want to try Karmada, we recommend building a development environment by hack/local-up-karmada.sh.

git clone https://github.com/karmada-io/karmada
cd karmada
hack/local-up-karmada.sh

Propagate CRD application

The following steps walk you through how to propagate a Guestbook defined by a CRD.

Assume you are under the guestbook directory of the Karmada repo.

cd samples/guestbook

Set the KUBECONFIG environment with Karmada configuration.

export KUBECONFIG=${HOME}/.kube/karmada.config
  1. Create Guestbook CRD in Karmada control plane
kubectl apply -f guestbooks-crd.yaml 

The CRD should be applied to karmada-apiserver.

  1. Create ClusterPropagationPolicy that will propagate Guestbook CRD to member1
kubectl apply -f guestbooks-clusterpropagationpolicy.yaml
# guestbooks-clusterpropagationpolicy.yaml
apiVersion: policy.karmada.io/v1alpha1
kind: ClusterPropagationPolicy
metadata:
name: example-policy
spec:
resourceSelectors:
- apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
name: guestbooks.webapp.my.domain
placement:
clusterAffinity:
clusterNames:
- member1

The CRD will be propagated to member clusters according to the rules defined in ClusterPropagationPolicy.

Note: We can only use ClusterPropagationPolicy not PropagationPolicy here. Please refer to FAQ Difference between PropagationPolicy and ClusterPropagationPolicy for more details.

  1. Create a Guestbook CR named guestbook-sample in Karmada control plane
kubectl apply -f guestbook.yaml
  1. Create PropagationPolicy that will propagate guestbook-sample to member1
kubectl apply -f guestbooks-propagationpolicy.yaml
# guestbooks-propagationpolicy.yaml
apiVersion: policy.karmada.io/v1alpha1
kind: PropagationPolicy
metadata:
name: example-policy
spec:
resourceSelectors:
- apiVersion: webapp.my.domain/v1
kind: Guestbook
placement:
clusterAffinity:
clusterNames:
- member1
  1. Check the guestbook-sample status from Karmada
kubectl get guestbook -oyaml

The output is similar to:

apiVersion: webapp.my.domain/v1
kind: Guestbook
metadata:
annotations:
kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: |
{"apiVersion":"webapp.my.domain/v1","kind":"Guestbook","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"guestbook-sample","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"alias":"Name","configMapName":"test","size":2}}
creationTimestamp: "2022-11-18T06:56:24Z"
generation: 1
labels:
propagationpolicy.karmada.io/name: example-policy
propagationpolicy.karmada.io/namespace: default
name: guestbook-sample
namespace: default
resourceVersion: "682895"
uid: 2f8eda5f-35ab-4ac3-bcd4-affcf36a9341
spec:
alias: Name
configMapName: test
size: 2

Customize CRD application

  1. Create OverridePolicy that will override the size field of guestbook-sample in member1
kubectl apply -f guestbooks-overridepolicy.yaml
# guestbooks-overridepolicy.yaml
apiVersion: policy.karmada.io/v1alpha1
kind: OverridePolicy
metadata:
name: guestbook-sample
spec:
resourceSelectors:
- apiVersion: webapp.my.domain/v1
kind: Guestbook
overrideRules:
- targetCluster:
clusterNames:
- member1
overriders:
plaintext:
- path: /spec/size
operator: replace
value: 4
- path: /metadata/annotations
operator: add
value: {"OverridePolicy":"test"}
  1. Check the size field of guestbook-sample from member cluster
kubectl --kubeconfig=${HOME}/.kube/members.config config use-context member1
kubectl --kubeconfig=${HOME}/.kube/members.config get guestbooks -o yaml

If it works as expected, the .spec.size will be overwritten to 4:

apiVersion: webapp.my.domain/v1
kind: Guestbook
metadata:
annotations:
OverridePolicy: test
kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: |
{"apiVersion":"webapp.my.domain/v1","kind":"Guestbook","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"guestbook-sample","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"alias":"Name","configMapName":"test","size":2}}
resourcebinding.karmada.io/name: guestbook-sample-guestbook
resourcebinding.karmada.io/namespace: default
resourcetemplate.karmada.io/uid: 2f8eda5f-35ab-4ac3-bcd4-affcf36a9341
creationTimestamp: "2022-11-18T06:56:37Z"
generation: 2
labels:
propagationpolicy.karmada.io/name: example-policy
propagationpolicy.karmada.io/namespace: default
resourcebinding.karmada.io/key: 6849fdbd59
work.karmada.io/name: guestbook-sample-6849fdbd59
work.karmada.io/namespace: karmada-es-member1
name: guestbook-sample
namespace: default
resourceVersion: "430024"
uid: 8818e33d-10bf-4270-b3b9-585977425bc9
spec:
alias: Name
configMapName: test
size: 4