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The DNS add-on allows your services to have a DNS name in addition to an IP address. This is helpful for simplified service discovery between applications. More info can be found in the Kubernetes DNS documentation.
Add-ons are built on the same Kubernetes components as user-submitted jobs — Pods, Replication Controllers and Services. We're going to install the DNS add-on with kubectl.
First create dns-addon.yml on your local machine and replace the variable. There is a lot going on in there, so let's break it down after you create it.
${DNS_SERVICE_IP}dns-addon.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: kube-dns
namespace: kube-system
labels:
k8s-app: kube-dns
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
kubernetes.io/name: "KubeDNS"
spec:
selector:
k8s-app: kube-dns
clusterIP: ${DNS_SERVICE_IP}
ports:
- name: dns
port: 53
protocol: UDP
- name: dns-tcp
port: 53
protocol: TCP
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
name: kube-dns-v11
namespace: kube-system
labels:
k8s-app: kube-dns
version: v11
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
k8s-app: kube-dns
version: v11
template:
metadata:
labels:
k8s-app: kube-dns
version: v11
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
spec:
containers:
- name: etcd
image: gcr.io/google_containers/etcd-amd64:2.2.1
resources:
limits:
cpu: 100m
memory: 500Mi
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 50Mi
command:
- /usr/local/bin/etcd
- -data-dir
- /var/etcd/data
- -listen-client-urls
- http://127.0.0.1:2379,http://127.0.0.1:4001
- -advertise-client-urls
- http://127.0.0.1:2379,http://127.0.0.1:4001
- -initial-cluster-token
- skydns-etcd
volumeMounts:
- name: etcd-storage
mountPath: /var/etcd/data
- name: kube2sky
image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube2sky:1.14
resources:
limits:
cpu: 100m
memory: 200Mi
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 50Mi
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /healthz
port: 8080
scheme: HTTP
initialDelaySeconds: 60
timeoutSeconds: 5
successThreshold: 1
failureThreshold: 5
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /readiness
port: 8081
scheme: HTTP
initialDelaySeconds: 30
timeoutSeconds: 5
args:
# command = "/kube2sky"
- --domain=cluster.local
- name: skydns
image: gcr.io/google_containers/skydns:2015-10-13-8c72f8c
resources:
limits:
cpu: 100m
memory: 200Mi
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 50Mi
args:
# command = "/skydns"
- -machines=http://127.0.0.1:4001
- -addr=0.0.0.0:53
- -ns-rotate=false
- -domain=cluster.local.
ports:
- containerPort: 53
name: dns
protocol: UDP
- containerPort: 53
name: dns-tcp
protocol: TCP
- name: healthz
image: gcr.io/google_containers/exechealthz:1.0
resources:
limits:
cpu: 10m
memory: 20Mi
requests:
cpu: 10m
memory: 20Mi
args:
- -cmd=nslookup kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local 127.0.0.1 >/dev/null
- -port=8080
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
protocol: TCP
volumes:
- name: etcd-storage
emptyDir: {}
dnsPolicy: Default
This single YAML file is actually creating 2 different Kubernetes objects, separated by ---.
The first object is a service that provides DNS lookups over port 53 for any service that requires it.
The second object is a Replication Controller, which consists of several different containers that work together to provide DNS lookups. There's too much going on to explain it all, but it's using health checks, resource limits, and intra-pod networking over multiple ports.
Next, start the DNS add-on:
$ kubectl create -f dns-addon.yml
And check for kube-dns-v11-* pod up and running:
$ kubectl get pods --namespace=kube-system | grep kube-dns-v11
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