Get redis running on GKE with a demo app. For Redis Conf 2019

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First, let's create a small GKE cluster that you can use to run Redis and some sample apps in.

We will use the gcloud cli to provision the cluster:

gcloud container clusters create "redis-cluster" --zone "us-west2-b" --machine-type "g1-small" --num-nodes "2"

This will create a small 2-node cluster in your current GCP project.

Next, let's deploy Redis to this clusters

kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/application/guestbook/redis-master-deployment.yaml

kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/application/guestbook/redis-master-service.yaml

Great! This will deploy a single master redis instance, and create a endpoint that you can connect to.

Let's try it out!

Connect to the Redis master and run the redis-cli

kubectl exec -it $(kubectl get pods -l app=redis -o jsonpath={.items[0].metadata.name}) -- redis-cli

This allows us to connect to the redis master without messing with firewalls or creating load balancers!

You can run this command anytime to connect to your database.

Type exit to close the connection.

During the course of the conference, speakers will share their code as a Docker container you can run in your cluster. Let's see a sample of that in action.

Let's deploy a sample app that will connect to Redis.

The container is called "gcr.io/google-samples/gb-frontend:v4" and is a simple PHP guestbook that uses Redis to store information.

To run this container, run:

kubectl run php-guestbook --image=gcr.io/google-samples/gb-frontend:v4

To save time and costs, we are going to use a NodePort to connect to the service.

First, create a Firewall Rule that will expose NodePorts to the internet.

gcloud compute firewall-rules create gke-node-ports --allow tcp:30000-32767

Then, find the IP addresses of your node and save it to an environment variable:

NODE=$(kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath='{ $.items[0].status.addresses[?(@.type=="ExternalIP")].address }')

To connect to this container, we need to create a service:

kubectl expose deployment php-guestbook --type=NodePort --port=80 --target-port=80

This will expose a port on the IP address you found earlier. Save the port to an environment variable:

PHP_GUESTBOOK_PORT=$(kubectl get -o jsonpath="{.spec.ports[0].nodePort}" services php-guestbook)

Remember, each service you expose with a NodePort will have a different port number, so make sure you save them to different variables.

Now, you can visit the combined URL to see your new app in action:

echo http://${NODE}:${PHP_GUESTBOOK_PORT}

To clean everything up once you are done, delete the Firewall Rule and the Cluster

gcloud compute firewall-rules delete gke-node-ports
gcloud container clusters delete "redis-cluster" --zone "us-west2-b"

This guide is designed to get you started with Kubernetes, but there is a lot more to learn!

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