Introduction

This repo is a small demo of how to deploy an AMQ Streams Kafka instance using OpenShift GitOps.

Pre-Requisites

This demo requires that the OpenShift GitOps and AMQ Streams operator be deployed in the cluster

Demo

1. Create two namespaces as follows: a. int-dev. This is where we will install the Kafka cluster b. int-tools. This is where we will install the OpenShift GitOps instance

2. In the Openshift console, navigate to the Installed Operators while making sure that int-tools is selected

3. In Installed Operators, select OpenShift GitOps and click the Argo CD tab. Click the create button and paste the contents from argocd-cr.yaml here. Select Save

4. Wait for the Argo CD instance to be running, oc get pods should show the following:

$ oc get pods -n int-tools
NAME                                                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
argocd-application-controller-0                     1/1     Running   0          6m19s
argocd-applicationset-controller-75797955d4-8krzn   1/1     Running   0          6m19s
argocd-dex-server-75698c4ffd-2db28                  1/1     Running   0          6m19s
argocd-redis-6fb8d68fd5-2nn8m                       1/1     Running   0          6m19s
argocd-repo-server-585d76876-wq655                  1/1     Running   0          6m19s
argocd-server-d6ccff7c6-ztksg                       1/1     Running   0          6m19s

5. Prior to using the Argo CD we need enable it to manage the int-dev namespace, typically this involves creating a bunch of roles and rolebindings for the serviceaccounts in int-tools but OpenShift GitOps can do this for you automatically. To do so, add the following label to int-dev:

oc label namespace int-dev argocd.argoproj.io/managed-by=int-tools

6. verify the new roles have been created in int-dev:

$ oc get roles -n int-dev
NAME                                   CREATED AT
argocd-argocd-application-controller   2021-12-14T21:09:46Z
argocd-argocd-dex-server               2021-12-14T21:09:46Z
argocd-argocd-redis-ha                 2021-12-14T21:09:46Z
argocd-argocd-server                   2021-12-14T21:09:46Z

7. Get the admin password:

oc get secret/argocd-cluster -n int-tools -o jsonpath='{.data.admin\.password}' | base64 -d

8. Login into Argo CD using admin as the user and the password

9. Click on the Gear icon on the left bar and select Cluster and then select in-cluster, confirm that int-dev and int-tools are shown as the namespaces

10. Create a new application as follows:

• Application Name - Kafka Dev
• Project - default
• Sync Policy - Automatic
• Self Heal - Checked
• Repository URL - https://github.com/gnunn-gitops/amq-streams-gitops
• Branch - Main
• Path - kafka/overlays/dev

11. Wait for application to synchronize and then confirm that kafka is deployed in int-dev namespace