This section walks you through single-user deployment of Che on Kubernetes.

Prerequisites

  • A Kubernetes cluster with at least 4 GB RAM and RBAC:

    • For Minikube 0.26.0 and higher, use the following command:

      minikube start --cpus 2 --memory 4096 --extra-config=apiserver.authorization-mode=RBAC

    • For Minikube 0.25.2 and lower, use the following command:

      minikube start --cpus 2 --memory 4096 --extra-config=apiserver.Authorization.Mode=RBAC

  • To deploy role binding, use the following command:

    kubectl create clusterrolebinding add-on-cluster-admin --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:default

  • Install the Helm CLI. HELM is the package manager for Kubernetes.

  • Set your default Kubernetes context (this is required to use Helm). In Minikube, this is set automatically. Otherwise, modify the KUBECONFIG environment variable and run the following coammnd:

    kubectl config use-context <my-context>

  • Install tiller, the Helm server, on your cluster.

    1. Create a tiller serviceAccount.

      kubectl create serviceaccount tiller --namespace kube-system

    2. Bind it to the cluster-admin role.

      kubectl apply -f ./tiller-rbac.yaml

    3. Install tiller.

      helm init --service-account tiller --wait

  • Ensure that you have an Ingress controller enabled. To start it on Minikube, use the minikube addons enable ingress command.

  • DNS discovery should be enabled. It is enabled by default in Minikube.

Obtaining the cluster IP

To obtain the cluster IP:

  • To run your cluster on Minikube, type minikube ip on the command line.

  • If your cluster is in the cloud, obtain the hostname or IP address from your cloud provider.

In production, you must specify a hostname. For details, see the issue details at Add an ability to use host-based routing instead of path-based for k8s infras. To use a host-based configuration when you do not have a hostname, use services such as nip.io or xip.io.

To specify a hostname, pass it as the value of the ingressDomain parameter in the deployment syntax in the following section.

To use the IP address, for example, when your corporate policy prevents you from using nip.io, set isHostBased to false.

Deployment syntax

The context of the commands below is che/deploy/kubernetes/helm/che.

Deploying Che

To deploy single-user Che:

  1. Make sure Helm dependencies are up-to-date:

    helm dependency update

  2. Use following two methods to override the default values:

    • Change the values.yaml file. On the command line, run the following command:

      helm upgrade --install <my-che-installation> --namespace <my-che-namespace> ./

    • Or, override default values during installation, using the --set flag:

      helm upgrade --install <my-che-installation> --namespace <my-che-namespace> --set global.ingressDomain=<my-hostname> --set cheImage=<my-image> ./

Once the deployment finishes, you can access Che on the following locations:

Deleting Che deployment

To delete a deployment, run the following command:

helm delete <che-release-name>
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