SSP Operator

Operator that deploys resources for KubeVirt

Functionality

The operator deploys and manages resources needed by these six components:

• Common Instancetypes and Preferences Bundle
• Common Templates Bundle
• VM Console Proxy
• KubeVirt Tekton Tasks
• Template Validator
• Metrics rules - Currently it is only a single Prometheus rule containing the count of all running VMs.

Installation

The ssp-operator requires an Openshift cluster to run properly.

Requirements

The following resource types and CRDs are needed by ssp-operator when deployed on an OpenShift environment:

Resource type / CRD	Needed by
dataimportcrons.cdi.kubevirt.io	data-sources operand (Kind DataImportCron)
datavolumes.cdi.kubevirt.io/v1beta1	data-sources operand (Kind DataVolume and DataVolumeSource)
datasources.cdi.kubevirt.io/v1beta1	data-sources operand (Kind DataSource)
prometheusrules.monitoring.coreos.com	metrics operand (Kind PrometheusRule)
template.openshift.io/v1	common-templates operand (Kind Template)
virtualmachineclusterinstancetypes.instancetypes.kubevirt.io/v1alpha2	common-instancetypes operand (Kind VirtualMachineClusterInstancetype)
virtualmachineclusterpreferences.instancetypes.kubevirt.io/v1alpha2	common-instancetypes operand (Kind VirtualMachineClusterPreference)
pipelines.tekton.dev	tekton-pipelines operand (Kind Pipeline)
tasks.tekton.dev	tekton-tasks operand (Kind Task)

The following resource types and CRDs are needed by ssp-operator when deployed on a vanilla k8s environment:

Resource type / CRD	Needed by
virtualmachineclusterinstancetypes.instancetypes.kubevirt.io/v1alpha2	common-instancetypes operand (Kind VirtualMachineClusterInstancetype)
virtualmachineclusterpreferences.instancetypes.kubevirt.io/v1alpha2	common-instancetypes operand (Kind VirtualMachineClusterPreference)
pipelines.tekton.dev	tekton-pipelines operand (Kind Pipeline)
tasks.tekton.dev	tekton-tasks operand (Kind Task)
virtualMachine.kubevirt.io	vm-controller operand (Kind VirtualMachine)

Using HCO

The Hyperconverged Cluster Operator automatically installs the SSP operator when deploying.

Manual installation

The operator can be installed manually by applying the file ssp-operator.yaml from GitHub releases:

oc apply -f ssp-operator.yaml

To install the latest released version, the following commands can be used:

export SSP_VERSION=$(curl https://api.github.com/repos/kubevirt/ssp-operator/releases/latest | jq '.name' | tr -d '"')
oc apply -f https://github.com/kubevirt/ssp-operator/releases/download/${SSP_VERSION}/ssp-operator.yaml

To activate the operator, a CR needs to be created. An example is in config/samples/ssp_v1beta2_ssp.yaml.

Building

The Make will try to install kustomize, however if it is already installed it will not reinstall it. In case of an error, make sure you are using at least v3 of kustomize, available here: https://kustomize.io/

To build the container image run:

make container-build

To upload the image to the default repository run:

make container-push

The repository and image name and tag can be changed with these variables:

export IMG_REPOSITORY=<registry>/<image_name> # for example: export IMG_REPOSITORY=quay.io/kubevirt/ssp-operator
export IMG_TAG=<image_tag> # for example: export IMG_TAG=latest

After the image is pushed to the repository, manifests and the operator can be deployed using:

make deploy

Building the Template Validator

Please note that building and deploying the Template Validator requires a separate process

To build the container image run:

make build-template-validator-container

To upload the image to the default repository run:

make push-template-validator-container

The repository and image name and tag can be changed with these variables:

export VALIDATOR_REPOSITORY=<registry>/<image_name> # for example: export VALIDATOR_REPOSITORY=quay.io/kubevirt/kubevirt-template-validator
export VALIDATOR_IMG_TAG=<image_tag> # for example: export VALIDATOR_IMG_TAG=latest

You should also edit the deployment to pull the image you want, for example you can use this command:

oc set env deployment/ssp-operator VALIDATOR_IMAGE=$VALIDATOR_IMG

Pausing the operator

The reconciliation can be paused by adding the following annotation to the SSP resource:

kubevirt.io/operator.paused: "true"

The operator will not react to any changes to the SSP resource or any of the watched resources. If a paused SSP resource is deleted, the operator will still cleanup all the dependent resources.

Development

See docs/development.md