Repair

Follow these steps to configure and install Traefik Ingress custom resources for accessing your K8ssandra cluster’s repair interface (provided by Cassandra Reaper).

Tools

• Helm

Prerequisites

1. Kubernetes cluster with the following elements deployed:

   • Traefik
   • K8ssandra Operators
   • K8ssandra Cluster

   See the Configuring Kind for an example of how to set up a local installation.

2. DNS name where the repair service should be listening.

   Note if you do not have a DNS name available, consider using a service like xip.io to generate a domain name based on the ingress IP address. For local Kind clusters this may look like repair.127.0.0.1.xip.io which would return the address 127.0.0.1 during DNS lookup.

Helm Parameters

The k8ssandra Helm chart contains templates for Traefik IngressRoute and IngressRouteTCP Custom Resources. These may be enabled at any time either through a values.yaml file or via command-line flags.

values.yaml

ingress:
  traefik:
    # Set to `true` to enable the templating of Traefik ingress custom resources
    enabled: false

    # Repair service
    repair: 
      # Note this will **only** work if `traefik.enabled` is also `true`
      enabled: true

      # Name of the Traefik entrypoints where we want to source traffic.
      entrypoints: 
        - web

      # Hostname Traefik should use for matching requests.
      host: repair.k8ssandra.cluster.local

Note the host parameter, this is where the DNS name must be provided. You will reference this DNS when accessing Reaper in a Web URL.

If you maintain a values.yaml or traefik.values.yaml file, change the ingress.traefik.enabled Boolean from false to true. Or, specify --set ingress.traefik.enabled=true on the helm install command line.

Enabling Traefik Ingress

Traefik ingress may be enabled on the command-line or via a values.yaml file. The K8ssandra team recommends storing this information in a values.yaml as that may be version controlled and managed in a DevOps friendly manner. Examples of both approaches are provided below as reference.

values.yaml

# New Install
helm install cluster-name k8ssandra/k8ssandra -f traefik.values.yaml

# Existing Cluster
helm upgrade cluster-name k8ssandra/k8ssandra -f traefik.values.yaml

Command-line

# New Install
helm install cluster-name k8ssandra/k8ssandra \
  --set ingress.traefik.enabled=true \
  --set ingress.traefik.repair.host=repair.cluster-name.k8ssandra.cluster.local

# Existing Cluster
helm upgrade cluster-name k8ssandra/k8ssandra \
  --set ingress.traefik.enabled=true \
  --set ingress.traefik.repair.host=repair.cluster-name.k8ssandra.cluster.local

Validate Traefik Configuration

Note this step is optional. The next step will also prove the configuration is working.

With the ingress routes configured and deployed to Kubernetes we can access the Traefik dashboard to validate the configuration has been picked up and is detecting the appropriate services.

1. Open your web browser and point it at the Traefik dashboard. This may require kubectl port-forward or the steps in our Configuring Kind guide.

   

2. Navigate to the HTTP Routers page

   

   There should be an entry representing the hostname based rule created as part of the Helm command. Note the Kubernetes logo to the right of the table indicating it was provisioned via a Kubernetes custom resource.

3. Navigate to the HTTP Services page

   There should be an entry representing the Reaper service. Note the Kubernetes logo to the right of the table indicating it was provisioned via a Kubernetes custom resource.

Next Steps

Check out how to Access the Repair Interface

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