Nebula Operator

Nebula Operator manages NebulaGraph clusters on Kubernetes and automates tasks related to operating a NebulaGraph cluster. It evolved from NebulaGraph Cloud Service, makes NebulaGraph a truly cloud-native database.

Quick Start

• Install Nebula Operator
• Create and Destroy
• Resize
• Rolling Upgrade
• Backup and Restore
• Failover

install nebula operator

See install/uninstall nebula operator .

Create and destroy a nebula cluster

$ kubectl create -f config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml

A none ha-mode nebula cluster will be created.

$ kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/cluster=nebula
NAME                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nebula-graphd-0     1/1     Running   0          1m
nebula-metad-0      1/1     Running   0          1m
nebula-storaged-0   1/1     Running   0          1m
nebula-storaged-1   1/1     Running   0          1m
nebula-storaged-2   1/1     Running   0          1m

See client service for how to access nebula clusters created by the operator.
If you are working with kubeadm locally, create a nodePort service and test that nebula is responding:

$ kubectl create -f config/samples/graphd-nodeport-service.yaml

$ nebula-console -u user -p password --address=192.168.8.26 --port=32236
2021/04/15 16:50:23 [INFO] connection pool is initialized successfully

Welcome to NebulaGraph!
(user@nebula) [(none)]>

Destroy the nebula cluster:

$ kubectl delete -f config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml

Resize a nebula cluster

Create a nebula cluster:

$ kubectl create -f config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml

In config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml the initial storaged replicas is 3.
Modify the file and change replicas from 3 to 5.

  storaged:
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: "1"
        memory: "1Gi"
      limits:
        cpu: "1"
        memory: "1Gi"
    replicas: 5
    image: vesoft/nebula-storaged
    version: v3.6.0
    storageClaim:
      resources:
        requests:
          storage: 2Gi
      storageClassName: fast-disks

Apply the replicas change to the cluster CR:

$ kubectl apply -f config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml

The storaged cluster will scale to 5 members (5 pods):

$ kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/cluster=nebula
NAME                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nebula-graphd-0     1/1     Running   0          2m
nebula-metad-0      1/1     Running   0          2m
nebula-storaged-0   1/1     Running   0          2m
nebula-storaged-1   1/1     Running   0          2m
nebula-storaged-2   1/1     Running   0          2m
nebula-storaged-3   1/1     Running   0          5m
nebula-storaged-4   1/1     Running   0          5m

Similarly, we can decrease the size of the cluster from 5 back to 3 by changing the replicas field again and reapplying the change.

  storaged:
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: "1"
        memory: "1Gi"
      limits:
        cpu: "1"
        memory: "1Gi"
    replicas: 3
    image: vesoft/nebula-storaged
    version: v3.6.0
    storageClaim:
      resources:
        requests:
          storage: 2Gi
      storageClassName: fast-disks

We should see that storaged cluster will eventually reduce to 3 pods:

$ kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/cluster=nebula
NAME                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nebula-graphd-0     1/1     Running   0          10m
nebula-metad-0      1/1     Running   0          10m
nebula-storaged-0   1/1     Running   0          10m
nebula-storaged-1   1/1     Running   0          10m
nebula-storaged-2   1/1     Running   0          10m

In addition, you can Install Nebula Cluster with helm.

Upgrade a nebula cluster

Create a nebula cluster with the version specified (v3.6.0):

$ kubectl apply -f config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml
$ kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/cluster=nebula
NAME                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nebula-graphd-0     1/1     Running   0          25m
nebula-metad-0      1/1     Running   0          26m
nebula-storaged-0   1/1     Running   0          22m
nebula-storaged-1   1/1     Running   0          24m
nebula-storaged-2   1/1     Running   0          25m

The container image version should be v3.6.0:

$ kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/cluster=nebula  -o jsonpath="{.items[*].spec.containers[*].image}" |tr -s '[[:space:]]' '\n' |sort |uniq -c
      1 vesoft/nebula-graphd:v3.6.0
      1 vesoft/nebula-metad:v3.6.0
      3 vesoft/nebula-storaged:v3.6.0

Now modify the file nebulacluster.yaml and change the version from v3.6.0 to v3.6.x:

Apply the version change to the cluster CR:

$ kubectl apply -f config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml

Wait few minutes. The container image version should be updated to v3.6.x:

$ kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/cluster=nebula  -o jsonpath="{.items[*].spec.containers[*].image}" |tr -s '[[:space:]]' '\n' |sort |uniq -c
      1 vesoft/nebula-graphd:v3.6.x
      1 vesoft/nebula-metad:v3.6.x
      3 vesoft/nebula-storaged:v3.6.x

Warning:

Rolling upgrade must be within the same vX.Y version, if you need upgrade enterprise edition, please contact us.

Backup and Restore a nebula cluster

See backup/restore nebula cluster .

Failover

If the minority of nebula components crash, the nebula operator will automatically recover the failure. Let's walk through this in the following steps.

Create a nebula cluster:

$ kubectl create -f config/samples/nebulacluster.yaml

Wait until pods are up. Simulate a member failure by deleting a storaged pod:

$ kubectl delete pod nebula-storaged-2 --now

The nebula operator will recover the failure by creating a new pod nebula-storaged-2:

$ kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/cluster=nebula
NAME                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nebula-graphd-0     1/1     Running   0          15m
nebula-metad-0      1/1     Running   0          15m
nebula-storaged-0   1/1     Running   0          15m
nebula-storaged-1   1/1     Running   0          15m
nebula-storaged-2   1/1     Running   0          19s

Guidelines

• Graphd HPA
• Admission webhook
• Custom flags
• Custom port
• Log
• Storaged
• PV reclaim
• PV expansion
• mTLS
• Specified cluster
• Security context
• ngctl
• nebula-console
• nebula-exporter

FAQ

Please refer to FAQ.md

Community

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. The maintainers of this project are reachable via:

• Filing an issue against this repo

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated.

• Start by some issues
• Submit Pull Requests to us. Please refer to how-to-contribute.

Acknowledgements

nebula-operator refers to tidb-operator. They have made a very good product. We have a similar architecture, although the product pattern is different from the application scenario, we would like to express our gratitude here.

License

NebulaGraph is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.