Deploy a mongo cluster on kubernetes. Based on Enabling Microservices: Containers & Orchestration Explained

replica/mongo-replica-rs.yaml creates 3 mongodb replication controllers and their corresponding services. The 3 mongodb instances can consist a replica set named as "my_replica_set".

One of mongodb replication controller's yaml:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
  name: mongo-replica-rc0
  labels:
    name: mongo-replica-rc
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    name: mongo-replica-node0
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        name: mongo-replica-node0
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: mongo-replica-node0
        image: hyge/mongo-cluster
        env:
          - name: mongo_node_name
            value: mongo-replica-node
          - name: mongo_nodes_number
            value: "3"
          - name: mongo_replica_set_name
            value: my_replica_set
        ports:
        - containerPort: 27017
        volumeMounts:
        - name: mongo-replica-storage0
          mountPath: /data/db
      volumes:
      - name: mongo-replica-storage0
        emptyDir: {}

• To scale nodes of the mongo replica, promote the environmental variable "mongo_nodes_number".
• Environmental variable "mongo_replica_set_name" is the name of replica set.
• Environmental variable "mongo_node_name" is the name prefix for each node. The suffix of the name will be "Nth" number. It must match k8s svc's name.
• See replica/start_replica.sh and replica/Dockerfile for more details.

One mongo service yaml:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: mongo-replica-node-0
  labels:
    name: mongo-svc
spec:
  clusterIP: None
  ports:
  - port: 27017
    targetPort: 27017
    protocol: TCP
    name: mongo-svc-port
  selector:
    name: mongo-replica-node0

To start a 3 node mongo rs, run kubectl create -f ./replica/mongo-replica-rs.yaml

For example: node.js

var connectionString = 'mongodb://mongo-replica-svc-a:27017,mongo-replica-svc-b:27017,mongo-replica-svc-c:27017/your_db?replicaSet=my_replica_set' +

MongoClient.connect(connectionString, callback)

Update: The bug has been fixed since k8s v1.2.4. Note: Before Kubernetes v1.2.4 has a bug that a pod cannot connect to itself via its service's cluster IP. I used headless services, which means all services do not have cluster IP and can be accessed only inside K8s cluster through service name like mongo-replica-svc-a. E.g. mongodb://service-name:27017/test

• If the number of replica set members are even, you may add a mongodb arbiter to create an "imbalance" (optional).

It is similar to build a replica set.

./run_shards.sh It will deploy 3 config servers in replica set, and a mongos instance as controller.

Then you can connect to mongos and add mongo instances as shards. e.g., Add replica set as one shard: sh.addShard("my_replica_set/mongo-replica-svc-a")