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Version: v1.3

Deploy First Application

Before starting, please confirm that you've installed KubeVela and enabled the VelaUX addon according to the installation guide.

Welcome to KubeVela! This section will guide you to deliver your first app.

Deploy a classic application

Below is a classic KubeVela application which contains one component with one operational trait, basically, it means to deploy a container image as webservice with one replica. Additionally, there are three policies and workflow steps, it means to deploy the application into two different environments with a bit different configurations.

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
name: first-vela-app
spec:
components:
- name: express-server
type: webservice
properties:
image: oamdev/hello-world
ports:
- port: 8000
expose: true
traits:
- type: scaler
properties:
replicas: 1
policies:
- name: target-default
type: topology
properties:
# The cluster with name local is installed the KubeVela.
clusters: ["local"]
namespace: "default"
- name: target-prod
type: topology
properties:
clusters: ["local"]
# This namespace must be created before deploying.
namespace: "prod"
- name: deploy-ha
type: override
properties:
components:
- type: webservice
traits:
- type: scaler
properties:
replicas: 2
workflow:
steps:
- name: deploy2default
type: deploy
properties:
policies: ["target-default"]
- name: manual-approval
type: suspend
- name: deploy2prod
type: deploy
properties:
policies: ["target-prod", "deploy-ha"]
  • Create an environment for your first app.
# This command will create a namespace in the local cluster
$ vela env init prod --namespace prod
environment prod with namespace prod created
  • Starting deploy the application
$ vela up -f https://kubevela.net/example/applications/first-app.yaml
Applying an application in vela K8s object format...
I0516 15:45:18.123356 27156 apply.go:107] "creating object" name="first-vela-app" resource="core.oam.dev/v1beta1, Kind=Application"
✅ App has been deployed 🚀🚀🚀
Port forward: vela port-forward first-vela-app
SSH: vela exec first-vela-app
Logging: vela logs first-vela-app
App status: vela status first-vela-app
Endpoint: vela status first-vela-app --endpoint
Application prod/first-vela-app applied.
  • View the process and status of the application deploy
$ vela status first-vela-app
About:

Name: first-vela-app
Namespace: prod
Created at: 2022-05-16 15:45:18 +0800 CST
Status: workflowSuspending

Workflow:

...

Services:

- Name: express-server
Cluster: local Namespace: default
Type: webservice
Healthy Ready:1/1
Traits:
✅ scaler

The application will become a workflowSuspending status, it means the workflow has finished the first two steps and waiting for manuel approval as the step specified.

  • Access the application

We can check the application by:

vela port-forward first-vela-app 8000:8000

It will invoke your browser and your can see the website:

<xmp>
Hello KubeVela! Make shipping applications more enjoyable.

...snip...
  • Resume the workflow

After we finished check the application, we can approve the workflow to continue:

$ vela workflow resume first-vela-app
Successfully resume workflow: first-vela-app

Then the rest part will be delivered in prod namespace:

$ vela status first-vela-app
About:

Name: first-vela-app
Namespace: prod
Created at: 2022-05-16 15:45:18 +0800 CST
Status: running

Workflow:

...snipt...

Services:

- Name: express-server
Cluster: local Namespace: prod
Type: webservice
Healthy Ready:2/2
Traits:
✅ scaler
- Name: express-server
Cluster: local Namespace: default
Type: webservice
Healthy Ready:1/1
Traits:
✅ scaler

Great! You have finished deploying your first KubeVela application, you can also view and manage it in UI.

Manage application with UI Console

Currently, the application created by CLI is readonly in your dashboard.

After finished the installation of VelaUX, you can view and manage the application created.

  • Port forward the UI if you don't have endpoint for access:
vela port-forward addon-velaux -n vela-system 8080:80
  • Check the password by:
vela logs -n vela-system --name apiserver addon-velaux | grep "initialized admin username"
  • Check the resources deployed

Click the application card, then you can view the details of the application.

Clean up

$ vela delete first-vela-app
Deleting Application "first-vela-app"
app "first-vela-app" deleted from namespace "prod"

That's it! You succeed at the first application delivery. Congratulation!

Next Step

  • View Core Concepts to learn more about how it works.
  • View User Guide to look on more of what you can achieve with KubeVela.