* Use security context on pod level, which allows us to run all containers as non-root and to get rid of the init container for changing permissions * Fix typos in readme * Fix permissions for key when auth is enabled
MongoDB Helm Chart
Prerequisites Details
- Kubernetes 1.8+ with Beta APIs enabled.
- PV support on the underlying infrastructure.
StatefulSet Details
StatefulSet Caveats
Chart Details
This chart implements a dynamically scalable MongoDB replica set using Kubernetes StatefulSets and Init Containers.
Installing the Chart
To install the chart with the release name my-release:
$ helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
$ helm install --name my-release stable/mongodb-replicaset
Configuration
The following tables lists the configurable parameters of the mongodb chart and their default values.
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
replicas |
Number of replicas in the replica set | 3 |
replicaSetName |
The name of the replica set | rs0 |
podDisruptionBudget |
Pod disruption budget | {} |
port |
MongoDB port | 27017 |
installImage.repository |
Image name for the install container | k8s.gcr.io/mongodb-install |
installImage.tag |
Image tag for the install container | 0.5 |
installImage.pullPolicy |
Image pull policy for the init container that establishes the replica set | IfNotPresent |
image.repository |
MongoDB image name | mongo |
image.tag |
MongoDB image tag | 3.6 |
image.pullPolicy |
MongoDB image pull policy | IfNotPresent |
podAnnotations |
Annotations to be added to MongoDB pods | {} |
securityContext |
Security context for the pod | {runAsUser: 999, fsGroup: 999, runAsNonRoot: true} |
resources |
Pod resource requests and limits | {} |
persistentVolume.enabled |
If true, persistent volume claims are created |
true |
persistentVolume.storageClass |
Persistent volume storage class | `` |
persistentVolume.accessMode |
Persistent volume access modes | [ReadWriteOnce] |
persistentVolume.size |
Persistent volume size | 10Gi |
persistentVolume.annotations |
Persistent volume annotations | {} |
tls.enabled |
Enable MongoDB TLS support including authentication | false |
tls.cacert |
The CA certificate used for the members | Our self signed CA certificate |
tls.cakey |
The CA key used for the members | Our key for the self signed CA certificate |
auth.enabled |
If true, keyfile access control is enabled |
false |
auth.key |
Key for internal authentication | `` |
auth.existingKeySecret |
If set, an existing secret with this name for the key is used | `` |
auth.adminUser |
MongoDB admin user | `` |
auth.adminPassword |
MongoDB admin password | `` |
auth.existingAdminSecret |
If set, and existing secret with this name is used for the admin user | `` |
serviceAnnotations |
Annotations to be added to the service | {} |
configmap |
Content of the MongoDB config file | `` |
nodeSelector |
Node labels for pod assignment | {} |
affinity |
Node/pod affinities | {} |
tolerations |
List of node taints to tolerate | [] |
livenessProbe |
Liveness probe configuration | See below |
readinessProbe |
Readiness probe configuration | See below |
extraVars |
Set environment variables for the main container | {} |
MongoDB config file
All options that depended on the chart configuration are supplied as command-line arguments to mongod. By default,
the chart creates an empty config file. Entries may be added via the configmap configuration value.
Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install.
Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,
$ helm install --name my-release -f values.yaml stable/mongodb-replicaset
Tip
: You can use the default values.yaml
Once you have all 3 nodes in running, you can run the "test.sh" script in this directory, which will insert a key into
the primary and check the secondaries for output. This script requires that the $RELEASE_NAME environment variable
be set, in order to access the pods.
Authentication
By default, this chart creates a MongoDB replica set without authentication. Authentication can be
enabled using the parameter auth.enabled. Once enabled, keyfile access control is set up and an
admin user with root privileges is created. User credentials and keyfile may be specified directly.
Alternatively, existing secrets may be provided. The secret for the admin user must contain the
keys user and password, that for the key file must contain key.txt. The user is created with
full root permissions but is restricted to the admin database for security purposes. It can be
used to create additional users with more specific permissions.
TLS support
To enable full TLS encryption set tls.enabled to true. It is recommended to create your own CA by executing:
$ openssl genrsa -out ca.key 2048
$ openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key ca.key -days 10000 -out ca.crt -subj "/CN=mydomain.com"
After that paste the base64 encoded (cat ca.key | base64 -w0) cert and key into the fields tls.cacert and
tls.cakey. Adapt the configmap for the replicaset as follows:
configmap:
storage:
dbPath: /data/db
net:
port: 27017
ssl:
mode: requireSSL
CAFile: /ca/tls.crt
PEMKeyFile: /work-dir/mongo.pem
replication:
replSetName: rs0
security:
authorization: enabled
clusterAuthMode: x509
keyFile: /keydir/key.txt
To access the cluster you need one of the certificates generated during cluster setup in /work-dir/mongo.pem of the
certain container or you generate your own one via:
$ cat >openssl.cnf <<EOL
[req]
req_extensions = v3_req
distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
[req_distinguished_name]
[ v3_req ]
basicConstraints = CA:FALSE
keyUsage = nonRepudiation, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment
subjectAltName = @alt_names
[alt_names]
DNS.1 = $HOSTNAME1
DNS.1 = $HOSTNAME2
EOL
$ openssl genrsa -out mongo.key 2048
$ openssl req -new -key mongo.key -out mongo.csr -subj "/CN=$HOSTNAME" -config openssl.cnf
$ openssl x509 -req -in mongo.csr \
-CA $MONGOCACRT -CAkey $MONGOCAKEY -CAcreateserial \
-out mongo.crt -days 3650 -extensions v3_req -extfile openssl.cnf
$ rm mongo.csr
$ cat mongo.crt mongo.key > mongo.pem
$ rm mongo.key mongo.crt
Please ensure that you exchange the $HOSTNAME with your actual hostname and the $HOSTNAME1, $HOSTNAME2, etc. with
alternative hostnames you want to allow access to the MongoDB replicaset. You should now be able to authenticate to the
mongodb with your mongo.pem certificate:
$ mongo --ssl --sslCAFile=ca.crt --sslPEMKeyFile=mongo.pem --eval "db.adminCommand('ping')"
Readiness probe
The default values for the readiness probe are:
readinessProbe:
initialDelaySeconds: 5
timeoutSeconds: 1
failureThreshold: 3
periodSeconds: 10
successThreshold: 1
Liveness probe
The default values for the liveness probe are:
livenessProbe:
initialDelaySeconds: 30
timeoutSeconds: 5
failureThreshold: 3
periodSeconds: 10
successThreshold: 1
Deep dive
Because the pod names are dependent on the name chosen for it, the following examples use the
environment variable RELEASENAME. For example, if the helm release name is messy-hydra, one would need to set the
following before proceeding. The example scripts below assume 3 pods only.
export RELEASE_NAME=messy-hydra
Cluster Health
$ for i in 0 1 2; do kubectl exec $RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset-$i -- sh -c 'mongo --eval="printjson(db.serverStatus())"'; done
Failover
One can check the roles being played by each node by using the following:
$ for i in 0 1 2; do kubectl exec $RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset-$i -- sh -c 'mongo --eval="printjson(rs.isMaster())"'; done
MongoDB shell version: 3.6.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017
MongoDB server version: 3.6.3
{
"hosts" : [
"messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
"messy-hydra-mongodb-1.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
"messy-hydra-mongodb-2.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017"
],
"setName" : "rs0",
"setVersion" : 3,
"ismaster" : true,
"secondary" : false,
"primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
"me" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
"electionId" : ObjectId("7fffffff0000000000000001"),
"maxBsonObjectSize" : 16777216,
"maxMessageSizeBytes" : 48000000,
"maxWriteBatchSize" : 1000,
"localTime" : ISODate("2016-09-13T01:10:12.680Z"),
"maxWireVersion" : 4,
"minWireVersion" : 0,
"ok" : 1
}
This lets us see which member is primary.
Let us now test persistence and failover. First, we insert a key (in the below example, we assume pod 0 is the master):
$ kubectl exec $RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset-0 -- mongo --eval="printjson(db.test.insert({key1: 'value1'}))"
MongoDB shell version: 3.6.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017
{ "nInserted" : 1 }
Watch existing members:
$ kubectl run --attach bbox --image=mongo:3.6 --restart=Never --env="RELEASE_NAME=$RELEASE_NAME" -- sh -c 'while true; do for i in 0 1 2; do echo $RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset-$i $(mongo --host=$RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset-$i.$RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset --eval="printjson(rs.isMaster())" | grep primary); sleep 1; done; done';
Waiting for pod default/bbox2 to be running, status is Pending, pod ready: false
If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter.
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
Kill the primary and watch as a new master getting elected.
$ kubectl delete pod $RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset-0
pod "messy-hydra-mongodb-0" deleted
Delete all pods and let the statefulset controller bring it up.
$ kubectl delete po -l "app=mongodb-replicaset,release=$RELEASE_NAME"
$ kubectl get po --watch-only
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 Pending 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 Pending 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 Pending 0 7s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 Init:0/2 0 7s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 Init:1/2 0 27s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 Init:1/2 0 28s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 PodInitializing 0 31s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 0/1 Running 0 32s
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 1/1 Running 0 37s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 0/1 Pending 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 0/1 Pending 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 0/1 Init:0/2 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 0/1 Init:1/2 0 20s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 0/1 Init:1/2 0 21s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 0/1 PodInitializing 0 24s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 0/1 Running 0 25s
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 1/1 Running 0 30s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 0/1 Pending 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 0/1 Pending 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 0/1 Init:0/2 0 0s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 0/1 Init:1/2 0 21s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 0/1 Init:1/2 0 22s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 0/1 PodInitializing 0 25s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 0/1 Running 0 26s
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 1/1 Running 0 30s
...
messy-hydra-mongodb-0 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
messy-hydra-mongodb-1 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
messy-hydra-mongodb-2 "primary" : "messy-hydra-mongodb-0.messy-hydra-mongodb.default.svc.cluster.local:27017",
Check the previously inserted key:
$ kubectl exec $RELEASE_NAME-mongodb-replicaset-1 -- mongo --eval="rs.slaveOk(); db.test.find({key1:{\$exists:true}}).forEach(printjson)"
MongoDB shell version: 3.6.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017
{ "_id" : ObjectId("57b180b1a7311d08f2bfb617"), "key1" : "value1" }
Scaling
Scaling should be managed by helm upgrade, which is the recommended way.