Create StatefulSet

Introduction

StatefulSet consists of serviceName, replicas, template and volumeClaimTemplates:

• serviceName is “mysql”, headless service we created in previous section
• replicas is 3, the desired number of pod
• template is the configuration of pod
• volumeClaimTemplates is to claim volume for pod based on storageClassName, mysql-gp2 that we created in the Define Storageclass section.

Create StatefulSet

Copy/Paste the following commands into your Cloud9 Terminal.

cd ~/environment/templates
wget https://eksworkshop.com/beginner/170_statefulset/statefulset.files/mysql-statefulset.yml

Create the StatefulSet “mysql” by following command.

kubectl create -f ~/environment/templates/mysql-statefulset.yml

Watch StatefulSet

Watch the status of StatefulSet.

kubectl -n mysql rollout status statefulset mysql

It will take few minutes for pods to initialize and have StatefulSet created.

Waiting for 3 pods to be ready...
Waiting for 2 pods to be ready...
Waiting for 1 pods to be ready...
partitioned roll out complete: 3 new pods have been updated...

Open another Cloud9 Terminal and watch the progress of pods creation using the following command.

kubectl -n mysql get pods -l app=mysql --watch

You can see ordered, graceful deployment with a stable, unique name for each pod.

NAME      READY     STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE
mysql-0   0/2       Init:0/2   0          30s
mysql-0   0/2       Init:1/2   0         35s
mysql-0   0/2       PodInitializing   0         47s
mysql-0   1/2       Running   0         48s
mysql-0   2/2       Running   0         59s
mysql-1   0/2       Pending   0         0s
mysql-1   0/2       Pending   0         0s
mysql-1   0/2       Pending   0         0s
mysql-1   0/2       Init:0/2   0         0s
mysql-1   0/2       Init:1/2   0         35s
mysql-1   0/2       Init:1/2   0         45s
mysql-1   0/2       PodInitializing   0         54s
mysql-1   1/2       Running   0         55s
mysql-1   2/2       Running   0         1m
mysql-2   0/2       Pending   0         0s
mysql-2   0/2       Pending   0         0s
mysql-2   0/2       Pending   0         0s
mysql-2   0/2       Init:0/2   0         0s
mysql-2   0/2       Init:1/2   0         32s
mysql-2   0/2       Init:1/2   0         43s
mysql-2   0/2       PodInitializing   0         50s
mysql-2   1/2       Running   0         52s
mysql-2   2/2       Running   0         56s

Check the dynamically created PVC by following command.

kubectl -n mysql get pvc -l app=mysql

We can see data-mysql-0,data-mysql-1, and data-mysql-2 have been created with the STORAGECLASS mysql-gp2.

NAME           STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
data-mysql-0   Bound    pvc-2a9bb222-3fbe-11ea-94be-0aff3e98c5a0   10Gi       RWO            mysql-gp2      22m
data-mysql-1   Bound    pvc-47076f1d-3fbe-11ea-94be-0aff3e98c5a0   10Gi       RWO            mysql-gp2      21m
data-mysql-2   Bound    pvc-6b3d6667-3fbe-11ea-94be-0aff3e98c5a0   10Gi       RWO            mysql-gp2      20m

And now the same information from the EC2 console.