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Ta-Ching ChenandSoam Vasani a13015e75a Add function logs support (#53) (#131)
Add function log aggregation and persistence using Fluentd and InfluxDB.

Fluentd and a helper sidecar run as a daemonset.  The poolmgr sets up logging for each function pod, using the helper sidecar. Fluentd forwards logs to InfluxDB, which is run as a deployment and service. The client CLI directly queries InfluxDB for logs.

Fluentd supports many outputs besides InfluxDB, so we aren't very tied to InfluxDB.

The setup is somewhat manual, which we should be able to improve by integrating this into the helm chart.

Diagram of component interactions: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/202578/23100399/b0e3ea00-f6ba-11e6-8f2f-6588cfef2e84.png
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Running Fission on your Cluster

Setup Kubernetes

You can install Kubernetes on your laptop with minikube:

Install and start Kubernetes on OSX:

  $ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin
  $ curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.16.0/minikube-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/
  $ minikube start

Or, install and start Kubernetes on Linux:

  $ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin
  $ curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.16.0/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/
  $ minikube start

Or, you can use Google Container Engine's free trial to get a 3 node cluster.

Verify access to the cluster

  $ kubectl version

Get and Run Fission: Minikube or Local cluster

If you're using minikube or no cloud provider, use these commands to set up services with NodePort. This exposes fission on ports 31313 and 31314.

  $ kubectl create -f http://fission.io/fission.yaml
  $ kubectl create -f http://fission.io/fission-nodeport.yaml

Set the FISSION_URL and FISSION_ROUTER environment variables. FISSION_URL is used by the fission CLI to find the server. FISSION_URL should be prefixed with a http://. (FISSION_ROUTER is only needed for the examples below to work.)

If you're using minikube, use these commands:

  $ export FISSION_URL=http://$(minikube ip):31313
  $ export FISSION_ROUTER=$(minikube ip):31314

Get and Run Fission: GKE or other Cloud

If you're using GKE or any other cloud provider that supports the LoadBalancer service type, use these commands:

  $ kubectl create -f http://fission.io/fission.yaml
  $ kubectl create -f http://fission.io/fission-cloud.yaml

Save the external IP addresses of controller and router services in FISSION_URL and FISSION_ROUTER, respectively. Wait for services to get IP addresses (check this with kubectl --namespace fission get svc). Then:

  $ export FISSION_URL=http://$(kubectl --namespace fission get svc controller -o=jsonpath='{..ip}')
  $ export FISSION_ROUTER=$(kubectl --namespace fission get svc router -o=jsonpath='{..ip}')

Install the client CLI

Get the CLI binary for Mac:

  $ curl http://fission.io/mac/fission > fission && chmod +x fission && sudo mv fission /usr/local/bin/

Or Linux:

  $ curl http://fission.io/linux/fission > fission && chmod +x fission && sudo mv fission /usr/local/bin/

Run an example

Finally, you're ready to use Fission!

  $ fission env create --name nodejs --image fission/node-env

  $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fission/fission/master/examples/nodejs/hello.js > hello.js

  $ fission function create --name hello --env nodejs --code hello.js
  
  $ fission route create --method GET --url /hello --function hello
  
  $ curl http://$FISSION_ROUTER/hello
  Hello, world!

Enable Persistent Function Logs (Optional)

Fission uses InfluxDB to store logs and fluentd to forward them from function pods into InfluxDB. To setup both InfluxDB and fluentd:

Edit fission-logger.yaml to add a username and password for the Influxdb deployment. Then:

  $ kubectl create -f fission-logger.yaml

On the client side,

If you're using minikube or a local cluster:

$ export FISSION_LOGDB=http://$(minikube ip):31315

If you're using GKE or other cloud:

$ export FISSION_LOGDB=http://$(kubectl --namespace fission get svc influxdb -o=jsonpath='{..ip}'):8086

That's it for setup. You can now use this to view function logs:

  $ fission function logs --name hello

You can also list the all the pods that have hosted the function (including ones that aren't alive any more) and view logs for a particular pod:

  $ fission function pods --name hello

  $ fission function logs --name hello --pod <pod name>