Setting up your SimKube development environment
This guide will walk you through the steps to build and install SimKube from source. You’ll need to have a pre-existing Kubernetes cluster to install SimKube on (follow the steps to set up a local cluster with Kind).
Prerequisites
In addition to the project prerequisites, you will need to have the following installed:
- pre-commit
- Nightly version of rustfmt
SimKube uses 🔥Config to generate Kubernetes manifests from definitions located
in ./k8s/. If you want to make changes to the generated Kubernetes manifests, you will need to install the
following additional dependencies:
- Python 3.11
- Python Poetry (https://python-poetry.org/docs/)
- NodeJS
Optional prerequisites
- grcov (if you want to generate coverage reports locally)
- openapi-generator (if you need to make changes to the SimKube API)
- msgpack-tools (for inspecting the contents of exported trace files)
Setup
Run make setup to install the pre-commit hooks and configure the Poetry virtualenv in ./k8s
Building SimKube
To build all SimKube artifacts for the first time run:
git clone https://github.com/acrlabs/simkube && cd simkube
git submodule init && git submodule update
make build
For all subsequent builds of SimKube artifacts, run only make build from the root of this repository.
Docker images
To build and push Docker images for all the artifacts, run DOCKER_REGISTRY=path_to_your_registry:5000 make image
Running the artifacts:
To run the artifacts using the images you built in the previous step, run make run. You should now see the SimKube
pods running in the simkube namespace on your Kubernetes cluster:
> kubectl get pods -n simkube
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
simkube sk-ctrl-depl-b6fbb7744-l8bwm 1/1 Running 0 11h
simkube sk-tracer-depl-74546ccb48-5gmbc 1/1 Running 0 11h
Cleaning up
All build artifacts are placed in the .build/ directory. You can remove this directory or run make clean to clean
up.