Chapter 15. Using ContainerSource with Service Mesh


You can use ContainerSource with Service Mesh.

This procedure describes how to configure container source with Service Mesh.

Prerequisites

  • You have set up integration of Service Mesh and Serverless.

Procedure

  1. Create a Service in a namespace that is member of the ServiceMeshMemberRoll:

    Example event-display-service.yaml configuration file

    apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
      name: event-display
      namespace: <namespace> 
    1
    
    spec:
      template:
        metadata:
          annotations:
            sidecar.istio.io/inject: "true" 
    2
    
            sidecar.istio.io/rewriteAppHTTPProbers: "true"
        spec:
          containers:
          - image: quay.io/openshift-knative/knative-eventing-sources-event-display:latest

    • namespace: <namespace>: A namespace that is a member of the ServiceMeshMemberRoll.
    • sidecar.istio.io/inject: "true": This annotation injects Service Mesh sidecars into the Knative service pods.
  2. Apply the Service resource by running the following command:

    $ oc apply -f event-display-service.yaml
  3. Create a ContainerSource object in a namespace that is member of the ServiceMeshMemberRoll and sink set to the event-display:

    The following example displayes test-heartbeats-containersource.yaml configuration file:

    apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1
    kind: ContainerSource
    metadata:
      name: test-heartbeats
      namespace: <namespace>
    spec:
      template:
        metadata:
          annotations:
            sidecar.istio.io/inject": "true"
            sidecar.istio.io/rewriteAppHTTPProbers: "true"
        spec:
          containers:
            # This corresponds to a heartbeats image URI that you have built and published
            - image: quay.io/openshift-knative/heartbeats
              name: heartbeats
              args:
                - --period=1s
              env:
                - name: POD_NAME
                  value: "example-pod"
                - name: POD_NAMESPACE
                  value: "event-test"
      sink:
        ref:
          apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
          kind: Service
          name: event-display-service
    • namespace: <namespace>: A namespace that is part of the ServiceMeshMemberRoll.
    • metadata: These annotations enable Service Mesh integration with the ContainerSource object.
  4. Apply the ContainerSource resource by running the following command:

    $ oc apply -f test-heartbeats-containersource.yaml
  5. Optional: Verify that events reach the Knative event sink by checking the message dumper function logs:

    You get an output similar to the following example command:

    $ oc logs $(oc get pod -o name | grep event-display) -c user-container

    You get an output similar to the following example:

    ☁️  cloudevents.Event
    Validation: valid
    Context Attributes,
      specversion: 1.0
      type: dev.knative.eventing.samples.heartbeat
      source: https://knative.dev/eventing-contrib/cmd/heartbeats/#event-test/mypod
      id: 2b72d7bf-c38f-4a98-a433-608fbcdd2596
      time: 2019-10-18T15:23:20.809775386Z
      contenttype: application/json
    Extensions,
      beats: true
      heart: yes
      the: 42
    Data,
      {
        "id": 1,
        "label": ""
      }
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