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Telepresence1.0Connect to a remote Kubernetes cluster
Connect to a remote Kubernetes cluster
Install Telepresence with Homebrew/apt/dnf
You will need the following available on your machine:
kubectlcommand line tool (here's the installation instructions).- Access to your Kubernetes cluster, with local credentials on your machine. You can test this by running
kubectl get pod- if this works you're all set.
OS X
On OS X you can install Telepresence by running the following:
Ubuntu 16.04 or later
Run the following to install Telepresence:
If you are running another Debian-based distribution that has Python 3.5 installable as python3, you may be able to use the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) packages. The following works on Linux Mint 18.2 (Sonya) and Debian 9 (Stretch) by forcing the PackageCloud installer to access Xenial packages.
A similar approach may work on Debian-based distributions with Python 3.6 by using the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful) packages.
Fedora 26 or later
Run the following:
If you are running a Fedora-based distribution that has Python 3.6 installable as \`python3\`, you may be able to use Fedora packages. See the Ubuntu section above for information on how to invoke the PackageCloud installer script to force OS and distribution.
Arch Linux
Until we have a *correct and working* AUR package, please install from source. See issue #135 for the latest information.
Windows
See the Windows support documentation.
Install from source
On systems with Python 3.5 or newer, install into \`/usr/local/share/telepresence\` and \`/usr/local/bin\` by running:
Install the software from the list of dependencies to finish.
Install into arbitrary locations by setting other environment variables before calling the install script. See the install script for more information. After installation you can safely delete the source code.
Other platforms
Don't see your favorite platform? Let us know and we'll try to add it. Also try installing from source.
Connecting to a remote cluster
In this tutorial you'll see how Telepresence allows you to get transparent access to a remote cluster from a local process. This allows you to use your local tools on your laptop to communicate with processes inside the cluster.
You should start by running a service in the cluster:
It may take a minute or two for the pod running the server to be up and running, depending on how fast your cluster is.
You can now run a local process using Telepresence that can access that service, even though the process is local but the service is running in the Kubernetes cluster:
(This will not work if the hello world pod hasn't started yet... if so, try again.)
What's going on:
- Telepresence creates a new
Deployment, which runs a proxy. - Telepresence runs
curllocally in a way that proxies networking through thatDeployment. - The DNS lookup and HTTP request done by
curlget routed through the proxy and transparently access the cluster... even thoughcurlis running locally. - When
curlexits the newDeploymentwill be cleaned up.
To learn more about what Telepresence proxies you can read the relevant reference documentation.
Install Telepresence with Homebrew/apt/dnf
You will need the following available on your machine:
kubectlcommand line tool (here's the installation instructions).- Access to your Kubernetes cluster, with local credentials on your machine. You can test this by running
kubectl get pod- if this works you're all set.
OS X
On OS X you can install Telepresence by running the following:
Ubuntu 16.04 or later
Run the following to install Telepresence:
If you are running another Debian-based distribution that has Python 3.5 installable as python3, you may be able to use the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) packages. The following works on Linux Mint 18.2 (Sonya) and Debian 9 (Stretch) by forcing the PackageCloud installer to access Xenial packages.
A similar approach may work on Debian-based distributions with Python 3.6 by using the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful) packages.
Fedora 26 or later
Run the following:
If you are running a Fedora-based distribution that has Python 3.6 installable as \`python3\`, you may be able to use Fedora packages. See the Ubuntu section above for information on how to invoke the PackageCloud installer script to force OS and distribution.
Arch Linux
Until we have a *correct and working* AUR package, please install from source. See issue #135 for the latest information.
Windows
See the Windows support documentation.
Install from source
On systems with Python 3.5 or newer, install into \`/usr/local/share/telepresence\` and \`/usr/local/bin\` by running:
Install the software from the list of dependencies to finish.
Install into arbitrary locations by setting other environment variables before calling the install script. See the install script for more information. After installation you can safely delete the source code.
Other platforms
Don't see your favorite platform? Let us know and we'll try to add it. Also try installing from source.
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