Run WSO2 API Manager + MySQL in OpenShift
Take a look at this follow-up article that shows how to run MySQL and deploy it in Minishift.
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Join For FreeThis is a follow-up article of this where I explained from scratch how to install Minishift, create a Docker image of WSO2 API Manager and finally, run it in Minishift. In this article, we are going to explore how to configure MySQL in the WSO2 API Manager and deploy it in Minishift. It's quite easy.
Too Long; Didn't Read
Here are the complete YAML configuration files for the deployment. Note that the Docker image of WSO2 API Manager being used in the YAML configuration file is from the Minishift internal Docker registry. You are not restricted to use the internal Docker registry. Instead, you can put the Docker image in a private Docker registry or Docker hub. Also, the Docker image file is quite simple to focus on Minishift only. To automate the whole process, a script can be written. But I left it to make it understandable for any beginner.
Prerequisites
Please refer to the previous article regarding how to create a project, Docker image, image stream in Minishift. In this article, we assume that the following things are already created:
- Created a project/namespace named wso2.
- Created an Image Stream named wso2am.
- Created Docker Image for WSO2 API Manager and pushed it to Minishift internal Docker registry.
YAML Configurations
The whole deployment can be divided into two parts, MySQL and the API Manager.
Deployment Configuration – MySQL
Before plugging MySQL into the API Manager, it's important to create the necessary databases and tables. Here is the deployment configuration for MySQL. Note that deployment configuration creates the container POD/s in the cluster.
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: mysql-deployment
labels:
app: mysql
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: mysql
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: mysql
spec:
containers:
- name: mysql
image: mysql:5.7
env:
- name: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
value: root
ports:
- containerPort: 3306
protocol: TCP
volumeMounts:
- name: init-data
mountPath: /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
volumes:
- name: init-data
configMap:
name: init-data
The important thing to note here is to create the ConfigMap named init-data. In the config map, we declare the database scripts to be volume-mounted at the /Docker-entrypoint-initdb.d location so that at MySQL container startup, the databases, as well as the tables, are created.
Here is the command to create the init-data config map.
# Assume that we are at the folder apim-mysql
$ oc create configmap init-data --from-file=./mysql/scripts
We are creating the config map from a directory, kube-wso2/apim-mysql/mysql/scripts.
Service Configuration — MySQL
From the Kubernetes directory:
A Kubernetes Service is an abstraction which defines a logical set of Pods and a policy by which to access them — sometimes called a microservice. The set of Pods targeted by a Service is (usually) determined by a Label Selector (see below for why you might want a Service without a selector).
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: mysql-service
spec:
type: ClusterIP
selector:
app: mysql
ports:
- name: mysql-port
port: 3306
targetPort: 3306
protocol: TCP
Note that in this service we are selecting pods with labels app: mysql.
And that's it. Execute the following commands to create the MySQL pod and service.
# Assume that we are at the folder apim-mysql.
$ oc create -f ./mysql/kube/mysql-deployment.yaml
$ oc create -f ./mysql/kube/mysql-service.yaml
Once deployment is successful, you can see this in Minishift web console:
Note that this MySQL instance running inside the Minishift cluster is not accessible from outside. To do that, you have to do a port-forwarding. It's quite simple.
$ oc port-forward <pod-name> :<remote-port>
Deployment Configuration — WSO2 API Manager
Here is the complete configuration file. Just some points I would like to make here.
The Docker image of the WSO2 API Manager is being pulled from the internal Docker registry of Minishift.
We need to push some changes done in the following files: master-datasources.xml; api-manager.xml; registry.xml; and user-mgt.xml to the Docker image. To achieve that, we create config maps for each configuration file and mount them as volumes. Here are the commands to create the config maps,
# Assume that we are at the folder apim-mysql
$ oc create configmap config-apim --from-file=./apim/configs/api-manager.xml
$ oc create configmap config-datasource --from-file=./apim/configs/master-datasources.xml
$ oc create configmap config-registry --from-file=./apim/configs/registry.xml
$ oc create configmap config-usermgt --from-file=./apim/configs/user-mgt.xml
One important thing is configuring data sources in master-datasources.xml.
Check that the database host is the name of the MySQL service we deployed in the previous section. It's accessible inside the cluster by its service name.
Service Configuration — WSO2 API Manager
Here is the complete configuration file.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: apim-service
spec:
selector:
app: apim
ports:
- name: servlet-http
port: 9763
targetPort: 9763
protocol: TCP
- name: servlet-https
port: 9443
targetPort: 9443
protocol: TCP
- name: gw-http
port: 8280
targetPort: 8280
protocol: TCP
- name: gw-https
port: 8243
targetPort: 8243
protocol: TCP
It's a simple configuration file exposing the ports. Note that in this service we are selecting pods with labels app: apim.
And that's it. Execute the following commands to create the WSO2 API Manager pod and service.
# Assume that we are at the folder apim-mysql.
$ oc create -f ./apim/kube/apim-deployment.yaml
$ oc create -f ./apim/kube/apim-service.yaml
Once the API Manager pod and service are created you should be able to navigate them in the web console.
Now, create a route with passthrough HTTS security as shown in the previous article and you should be able to access the WSO2 API Manager.
Conclusion
In this article, I have demonstrated how to configure WSO2 API Manager with MySQL as RDBMS. In the next article, I will show how to configure a Load Balancer for two instances of APIM in Minishift.
Thanks for reading.
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