Steps I took to install this to kubernetes

I had some issues deploying this to kubernetes, so to at least try to document my steps for the next person, this is what I did:

1. Add a standard deployment, define your mounts/PVC’s as you normally do. Add init as an argument to the container, such as:

    containers:
      - name: archivebox
        args: ["init"]
        image: archivebox/archivebox

(If you mount a block-device, using for example Rook, as your PVC, you’ll have a Lost+Found-folder in /data - archivebox will not do the init-phase then, I used a sleep-container (davralin/sleep), exec’ed into it and removed lost+found)

1. After the initial run, change init to server, like so:

    containers:
      - name: archivebox
        args: ["server"]
        image: archivebox/archivebox

(dont forget to reapply with kubectl) 3. Exec into the container, and drop to archivebox’s dedicated user, like so:

su -l archivebox -s /bin/bash

This allows you to manage the installation, using archivebox add or whatever. I used archivebox manage createsuperuser to create a user, and then do the rest from the web-page.

This is the steps I did to deploy AB to my kubernetes-cluster, put the docs somewhere you think it’s appropriate. 😃

Let me know if I should add the manifests I used for the deployment anywhere.

The init-part was the hardest to be honest, because the container exists immediately when started - some kind of configuration-options (using env) for doing the initial init (and ignoring lost+found) would be much appreciated for the next person. (Could probably be done by an init-container, but I’m not there yet)

[davralin]

Nice, so with those changes in place, this is my relevant manifest:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: archivebox
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  labels:
    app: archivebox
  name: archivebox
  namespace: archivebox
spec:
  storageClassName: rook-ceph-block
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 2Gi
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: archivebox
  namespace: archivebox
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: archivebox
  replicas: 1
  strategy:
    type: Recreate
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: archivebox
    spec:
      initContainers:
      - name: init-archivebox
        image: archivebox/archivebox
        args: ['init']
        volumeMounts:
          - mountPath: /data
            name: archivebox
      containers:
        - name: archivebox
          args: ["server"]
          image: archivebox/archivebox
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8000
              protocol: TCP
              name: http
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: 50m
              memory: 32Mi
          volumeMounts:
            - mountPath: /data
              name: archivebox
      restartPolicy: Always
      volumes:
        - name: archivebox
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: archivebox
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: archivebox
  namespace: archivebox
spec:
  ports:
    - name: http
      port: 8000
  selector:
    app: archivebox
  type: LoadBalancer

[davralin]

Now who can pass up free Github credits… 😃