Containerizing​ kubectl for working with OKE (Oracle Kubernetes Engine)

kubectl is one of the command line interfaces for managing k8s. In this post, we are containerizing kubectl for easy utilization across different environments.

Because kubectl in OKE is related with OCI CLI, we are setting up the kubectl tool by adding it to ocloudshell container we created in this post.

STEP 1

STEP 2

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.12.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

STEP 3

Configure kubectl for OKE following instructions you can find in the main page of each K8s cluster created in the OCI dashboard UI:

STEP 4

Copy the .kube directory created in your home directory to the ocloudshell directory

STEP 5

Create Dockerfile

FROM store/oracle/serverjre:8
ENV LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 \
LANG=en_US.utf8
ARG OPC_CLI_VERSION=18.1.2
ENV OPC_CLI_PKG=opc-cli-$OPC_CLI_VERSION.zip
WORKDIR /ocloudshell/
RUN curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol7.repo http://yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol7.repo \
&& yum-config-manager --enable ol7_developer_EPEL \
&& yum-config-manager --enable ol7_developer \
&& yum -y install unzip python-oci-cli \
&& rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
WORKDIR /root
ADD .oci/ .oci/
RUN chmod 400 .oci/config
RUN chmod 400 .oci/oci_api_key.pem
ADD .kube/ .kube/
ADD kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl
CMD ["/bin/bash"]

STEP 6

docker build -t yourrepo/ocloudshell .

docker push yourrepo/ocloudshell

TEST IT

So far, so good. Let’s test the container executing a command, for instance:

docker run -it javiermugueta/ocloudshell kubectl get po

That’s all folks!

Enjoy 🙂