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Understanding Kubernetes Architecture

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Containers have become the de nitive way to develop applications because they provide packages that contain everything you
need to run your applications. In this blog, we will discuss Kubernetes architecture and the moving parts of Kubernetes and also
what are the key elements, what are the roles and responsibilities of them in Kubernetes architecture.

Kubernetes: An Overview
Kubernetes is an open-source Container Management tool which automates container deployment, container (de)scaling &
container load balancing.

Written on Golang, it has a huge community because it was rst developed by Google & later donated
to CNCF
Can group ‘n’ no of containers into one logical unit for managing & deploying them

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This video will give you an introduction to popular DevOps tool – Kubernetes, and will deep dive into Kubernetes Architecture
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Kubernetes Architecture/Kubernetes Components

Kubernetes Architecture has the following main components:

Master nodes
Worker/Slave nodes
Distributed key-value store(etcd.)

Master Node
It is the entry point for all administrative tasks which is responsible for managing the Kubernetes cluster. There can be more than
one master node in the cluster to check for fault tolerance. More to
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For managing the cluster state, it uses etcd in which all the master nodes connect to it.

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Performs all the administrative tasks through the API server within the master node.
In this REST commands are sent to the API server which validates and processes the requests.
After requesting, the resulting state of the cluster is stored in the distributed key-value store.

Scheduler:

The scheduler schedules the tasks to slave nodes. It stores the resource usage information for each slave node.
It schedules the work in the form of Pods and Services.
Before scheduling the task, the scheduler also takes into account the quality of the service requirements, data locality,
a nity, anti-a nity, etc.

Controller manager:

Also known as controllers.

It is a daemon which regulates the Kubernetes cluster which manages the di erent non-terminating control loops.
It also performs lifecycle functions such as namespace creation and lifecycle, event garbage collection, terminated-pod
garbage collection, cascading-deletion garbage collection, node garbage collection, etc.
Basically, a controller watches the desired state of the objects it manages and watches their current state through the API
server. If the current state of the objects it manages does not meet the desired state, then the control loop takes corrective
steps to make sure that the current state is the same as the desired state.

What is the ETCD?

etcd is a distributed key-value store which stores the cluster state.

It can be part of the Kubernetes Master, or, it can be con gured externally.
etcd is written in the Go programming language. In Kubernetes, besides storing the cluster state (based on the Raft
Consensus Algorithm) it is also used to store con guration details such as subnets, Con gMaps, Secrets, etc.
A raft is a consensus algorithm designed as an alternative to Paxos. The Consensus problem involves multiple servers
agreeing on values; a common problem that arises in the context of replicated state machines. Raft de nes three di erent
roles (Leader, Follower, and Candidate) and achieves consensus via an elected leader

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It is a physical server or you can say a VM which runs the applications using Pods (a pod scheduling unit) which is controlled by
the master node. On a physical server (worker/slave node), pods are scheduled. For accessing the applications from the external

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Container runtime:

To run and manage a container’s lifecycle, we need a container

runtime on the worker node.
Sometimes, Docker is also referred to as a container runtime, but to be
precise, Docker is a platform which uses containers as a container
runtime.

Kubelet:

It is an agent which communicates with the Master node and executes on

nodes or the worker nodes. It gets the Pod speci cations through the API
server and executes the containers associated with the Pod and ensures
that the containers described in those Pod are running and healthy.

Kube-proxy:

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Kube-proxy runs on each node to deal with individual host sub-netting and ensure that the services are available to external
parties.
It serves as a network proxy and a load balancer for a service on a single worker node and manages the network routing for
TCP and UDP packets.
It is the network proxy which runs on each worker node and listens to the API server for each Service endpoint
creation/deletion.
For each Service endpoint, kube-proxy sets up the routes so that it can reach to it.

Pods
A pod is one or more containers that logically go together. Pods run on nodes. Pods run together as a logical unit. So they have
the same shared content. They all share the same IP address but can reach other Pods via localhost, as well as shared storage.
Pods don’t need to all run on the same machine as containers can span more than one machine. One node can run multiple
pods.

Use Case: How Luminis Technologies used Kubernetes in production

Problem: Luminis, a software technology company used AWS for deploying their applications. For deploying the applications, it
required custom scripts and tools to automate which was not easy for teams other than operations. Their small teams didn’t
have the resources to learn all of the details about the scripts and tools.

Main Issue: There was no unit-of-deployment which created a gap between the development and the operations teams.

Solution:

How did they Deploy in Kubernetes:

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They used a blue-green deployment mechanism to reduce the complexity of handling multiple concurrent versions. (As there’s
always only one version of the application running in the background)

In this, a component called “Deployer” that orchestrated the deployment was created by their team by open sourcing
their implementation under the Apache License as part of the Amdatu umbrella project. This mechanism performed the health
checking on the pods before re-con guring the load balancer because they wanted each component that was deployed to
provide a health check.

How did they Automate Deployments?

With the Deployer in place, they were able to engage up deployments

to a build pipeline. After a successful build, their build server pushed
a new Docker image to a registry on Docker Hub. Then the build
server invoked the Deployer to automatically deploy the new version
to a test environment. That same image was promoted to production
by triggering the Deployer on the production environment.

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