kind-cilium

Setup k8s Kind cluster with Cilium CNI with StartWars demo workloads.

• Nodes: 1 master, 2 workers (ubuntu 22.04)
• Kubernetes v1.26.2
• Workloads from Cilium StartWars demo
• Observability: Hubble + UI (optional)

Pre-requisites

• MacOS (Intel or Apple Silicon)
• Docker
• Helm

Installation

To provision the cluster run (it also installs kubectl, Kind and Cilium Cli, if missing):

bin/istall.sh

Verify the cluster:

kubectl get nodes -o wide

NAME                   STATUS   ROLES           AGE     VERSION   INTERNAL-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   OS-IMAGE             KERNEL-VERSION     CONTAINER-RUNTIME
cilium-control-plane   Ready    control-plane   2m35s   v1.26.2   172.19.0.4    <none>        Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS   5.15.49-linuxkit   containerd://1.6.18
cilium-worker          Ready    worker          2m17s   v1.26.2   172.19.0.2    <none>        Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS   5.15.49-linuxkit   containerd://1.6.18
cilium-worker2         Ready    worker          2m17s   v1.26.2   172.19.0.3    <none>        Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS   5.15.49-linuxkit   containerd://1.6.18

Observability

To get to the Hubble UI run:

cilium hubble ui
ℹ️ Opening "http://localhost:12000" in your browser...

Generate some network traffic with Cilium tests:

cilium connectivity test

Select cilium-test namespace in the Hubble Dashboard (http://localhost:12000/cilium-test):

Clean-up

kind delete cluster --name cilium

Troubleshooting

• Kind
• Cilium