Deploying and Accessing Busola in a Kubernetes Cluster

Architecture

To expose Busola, you can use APIRule, Ingress, or create your own exposing mechanism. For more details about environment configuration, see Environment-Specific Settings.

Deploying Busola in a Kubernetes Cluster

Follow these steps to deploy Busola in a Kubernetes cluster:

1. Set the NAMESPACE shell environment variable and create your namespace:

   export NAMESPACE={YOUR_NAMESPACE_NAME}
   kubectl create namespace ${NAMESPACE}

2. Choose one of the following installation options that suit your case.

Accessing Busola Installed in a Kubernetes Cluster

You can access Busola using the kubectl port forward command or your Kubernetes cluster with Istio installed.

kubectl

Run the following command:

kubectl port-forward --namespace "${NAMESPACE}" services/busola 3001:3001

Kubernetes Cluster with Istio Installed

Prerequisites

• Sidecar Proxy injection for your namespace enabled; see Enable Istio Sidecar Proxy Injection.
• The API Gateway and Istio modules installed, see Quick Install

Procedure

Follow these steps to access your Busola page:

1. To install the Istio required resources, run the following command from the Busola root folder:

   (cd resources && kubectl apply --namespace "${NAMESPACE}" -k istio)

2. To get the Busola address, run:

   kubectl get --namespace "${NAMESPACE}" virtualservices.networking.istio.io

NOTE

The VirtualService creation takes a few minutes.

Under HOSTS, you should see an address that you can use to access the Busola page.