frappe_docker/installation/kubernetes

Prerequisites

• Access to Kubernetes cluster.
• kubectl
• helm 3

Install Ingress Controller

You can use Ingress Controller of your choice. During Creation of new ingress, cert-manager annotations are used.

kubectl create namespace nginx-ingress
helm repo add nginx-stable https://helm.nginx.com/stable
helm repo update
helm install --namespace nginx-ingress nginx-controller nginx-stable/nginx-ingress

Notes:

• If apps from cluster need to access other apps hosted on same cluster by domain name, set service.spec.externalTrafficPolicy to Cluster. Read More
• Once LoadBalancer Service is up, set Wildcard entry in your DNS Configuration

Install Cert Manager

Cert Manager can be used to automate Letsencrypt certificate management. During Creation of new ingress, cert-manager annotations are used.

• Installation
• Configure Issuer

Prepare MariaDB

MariaDB options :

• Host separately (access by Private IP)
• Use managed service (e.g. AWS RDS)
• Install mariadb on kubernetes cluster

Install MariaDB Helm chart

Download and edit values.yaml for frappe related mariadb config.

wget -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/charts/master/bitnami/mariadb/values-production.yaml

# Use editor of choice
code values-production.yaml

Set rootUser.password and replication.password.

rootUser:
  password: super_secret_password

replication:
  password: super_secret_password

Change master.config as follows:

  config: |-
    [mysqld]
    character-set-client-handshake=FALSE
    skip-name-resolve
    explicit_defaults_for_timestamp
    basedir=/opt/bitnami/mariadb
    plugin_dir=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/plugin
    port=3306
    socket=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock
    tmpdir=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp
    max_allowed_packet=16M
    bind-address=0.0.0.0
    pid-file=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysqld.pid
    log-error=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/logs/mysqld.log
    character-set-server=utf8mb4
    collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci

    [client]
    port=3306
    socket=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock
    default-character-set=utf8mb4
    plugin_dir=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/plugin

    [manager]
    port=3306
    socket=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock
    pid-file=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysqld.pid    

Change slave.config as follows:

  config: |-
    [mysqld]
    character-set-client-handshake=FALSE
    skip-name-resolve
    explicit_defaults_for_timestamp
    basedir=/opt/bitnami/mariadb
    port=3306
    socket=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock
    tmpdir=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp
    max_allowed_packet=16M
    bind-address=0.0.0.0
    pid-file=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysqld.pid
    log-error=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/logs/mysqld.log
    character-set-server=utf8mb4
    collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci

    [client]
    port=3306
    socket=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock
    default-character-set=utf8mb4

    [manager]
    port=3306
    socket=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock
    pid-file=/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysqld.pid    

Create namespace and Install Helm Chart

kubectl create namespace mariadb

helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm repo update
helm install -n mariadb bitnami/mariadb -f values-production.yaml

Prepare Shared Filesystem

Options are:

• NFS, recommended for small cluster
• Rook/Ceph, Hyper-converged infrastructure
  • Quickstart
  • Shared Filesystem

Note: After preparing storage, we get a storageClass which has ReadWriteMany accessMode available. e.g. nfs or rook-cephfs

Install Frappe/ERPNext Helm Chart

kubectl create namespace erpnext
helm repo add erpnext https://helm.erpnext.com/repo
helm repo update

helm install frappe-bench-0001 --namespace erpnext erpnext-v12 \
    --set mariadbHost=mariadb.mariadb.svc.cluster.local \
    --set persistence.storageClass=rook-cephfs

Site Operations

Following scripts take environment variables and generate a YAML file. Generated YAML file can be modified as per need.

Create MariaDB Root Password Secret

Generate Root Password. Export environment variable BASE64_PASSWORD and set it to base64 encoded mariadb root password.

# In case mariadb helm chart is installed
export BASE64_PASSWORD=$(kubectl get secret --namespace mariadb mariadb -o jsonpath="{.data.mariadb-root-password}")

./create-mariadb-root-password-secret.sh

kubectl -n erpnext apply -f mariadbrootpasswordsecret.yaml

Create New Site

export SITE_NAME=mysite.example.com
export DB_ROOT_USER=root
export ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(cat /tmp/site_admin_password)
export SITES_PVC=erpnext-v12
export VERSION=v12

./create-new-site-job.sh

kubectl -n erpnext apply -f newsitejob-mysite.example.com-1587301207.yaml

Note: Site admin password is set in /tmp/site_admin_password file.

Create New Ingress

export SITE_NAME=mysite.example.com
export INGRESS_NAME=$SITE_NAME
export FRAPPE_SERVICE=erpnext-v12
export TLS_SECRET_NAME=mysite-example-com-tls

./create-new-site-ingress.sh

kubectl -n erpnext apply -f newsiteingress_mysite.example.com.yaml

Backup New Site

export SITES_PVC=erpnext-v12
export VERSION=v12

./create-backup-sites-job.sh

kubectl -n erpnext apply -f backupsitesjob-1587303964.yaml

Migrate Sites

export SITES_PVC=erpnext-v12
export VERSION=v12

./create-migrate-sites-job.sh

kubectl -n erpnext apply -f migratesitesjob-1587306818.yaml