Install the Kubernetes certificate authority#

To configure your web browser and personal Docker Engine to work with the managed services, install the Kubernetes CA certificate. You must perform this configuration once.

To install the Kubernetes CA certificate, perform the following steps:

1. Run the installation script:

   ./install-kubernetes-ca-cert.sh
   

2. If you are using MacOS or Windows, restart Docker:

   docker-machine restart <docker-machine>
   

Configure application metrics monitoring#

Rackspace Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS) provides an easy to use and configure Prometheus cloud monitoring solution that visualizes alerts and metrics through the Grafana dashboards. You can configure Prometheus to collect metrics from your Kubernetes applications through a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) called ServiceMonitor. You can define the ServiceMonitor in a simple yaml file and apply this file to your configuration using kubectl.

To configure application metrics monitoring, complete the following steps:

1. Create a yaml configuration file:

   apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1alpha1
   kind: ServiceMonitor
   metadata:
     name: your-application
     namespace: rackspace-monitoring
     labels:
     monitor: rackspace-prometheus # needs to have this label to be detected by the managed prometheus resource
   spec:
     selector:
       matchLabels:
         some-label: <that-will-match-your-application-service>
     namespaceSelector:
       matchNames:
       - the-namespace-where-your-application-lives # needs to be the namespace
         the app got deployed to
     endpoints:
     - port: the-name-of-the-port-that-exposes-your-metrics-endpoint
   

2. Save as service-monitor.yaml.

3. Apply this configuration:

   $ kubectl apply -f service-monitor.yaml
   

Access the Rackspace KaaS dashboards#

The Rackspace KaaS solution enables you to access the managed services user interface by using your web browser.

To access the dashboards, you need the following information:

• Kubernetes cluster name
• OpenStack DNS zone for the Kubernetes cluster
• Login and password

To get the required information for logging in to the Kubernetes dashboards:

1. Get the name of your Kubernetes cluster:

   kubectl config get-clusters
   

   System response:

   NAME
   kubernetes-test
   

2. Get the DNS zone name for your Kubernetes cluster:

   openstack zone list
   

   Example of system response:

   +--------------+-------------------+---------+----------+--------+--------+
   | id           | name              | type    |   serial | status | action |
   +--------------+-------------------+---------+----------+--------+--------+
   | 034d29de ... | test.mk8s.systems.| PRIMARY | 92303 ...| ACTIVE | NONE   |
   +--------------+-------------------+---------+----------+--------+--------+
   

   If your cluster name is kubernetes-test and the DNS zone name is test.mk8s.systems, the URL to log in to the manage services dashboards is https://ingress.kubernetes-test.test.mk8s.systems/<dashboard>.

3. Use the username and password provided to you by your administrator to log in.

The following table lists the customer-facing dashboards.