Terraform Kubernetes Engine Module

This module handles opinionated Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes Engine cluster creation and configuration with Node Pools, IP MASQ, Network Policy, etc. The resources/services/activations/deletions that this module will create/trigger are:

• Create a GKE cluster with the provided addons
• Create GKE Node Pool(s) with provided configuration and attach to cluster
• Replace the default kube-dns configmap if stub_domains are provided
• Activate network policy if network_policy is true
• Add ip-masq-agent configmap with provided non_masquerade_cidrs if configure_ip_masq is true

Sub modules are provided from creating private clusters, beta private clusters, and beta public clusters as well. Beta sub modules allow for the use of various GKE beta features. See the modules directory for the various sub modules.

Compatibility

This module is meant for use with Terraform 0.12. If you haven't upgraded and need a Terraform 0.11.x-compatible version of this module, the last released version intended for Terraform 0.11.x is 3.0.0.

Usage

There are multiple examples included in the examples folder but simple usage is as follows:

module "gke" {
  source                     = "terraform-google-modules/kubernetes-engine/google"
  project_id                 = "<PROJECT ID>"
  name                       = "gke-test-1"
  region                     = "us-central1"
  zones                      = ["us-central1-a", "us-central1-b", "us-central1-f"]
  network                    = "vpc-01"
  subnetwork                 = "us-central1-01"
  ip_range_pods              = "us-central1-01-gke-01-pods"
  ip_range_services          = "us-central1-01-gke-01-services"
  http_load_balancing        = false
  horizontal_pod_autoscaling = true
  network_policy             = true

  node_pools = [
    {
      name               = "default-node-pool"
      machine_type       = "n1-standard-2"
      min_count          = 1
      max_count          = 100
      local_ssd_count    = 0
      disk_size_gb       = 100
      disk_type          = "pd-standard"
      image_type         = "COS"
      auto_repair        = true
      auto_upgrade       = true
      service_account    = "project-service-account@<PROJECT ID>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
      preemptible        = false
      initial_node_count = 80
    },
  ]

  node_pools_oauth_scopes = {
    all = []

    default-node-pool = [
      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform",
    ]
  }

  node_pools_labels = {
    all = {}

    default-node-pool = {
      default-node-pool = true
    }
  }

  node_pools_metadata = {
    all = {}

    default-node-pool = {
      node-pool-metadata-custom-value = "my-node-pool"
    }
  }

  node_pools_tags = {
    all = []

    default-node-pool = [
      "default-node-pool",
    ]
  }
}

Then perform the following commands on the root folder:

• terraform init to get the plugins
• terraform plan to see the infrastructure plan
• terraform apply to apply the infrastructure build
• terraform destroy to destroy the built infrastructure

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
basic_auth_password	The password to be used with Basic Authentication.	string	""	no
basic_auth_username	The username to be used with Basic Authentication. An empty value will disable Basic Authentication, which is the recommended configuration.	string	""	no
cluster_ipv4_cidr	The IP address range of the kubernetes pods in this cluster. Default is an automatically assigned CIDR.	string	"null"	no
cluster_resource_labels	The GCE resource labels (a map of key/value pairs) to be applied to the cluster	map(string)	<map>	no
configure_ip_masq	Enables the installation of ip masquerading, which is usually no longer required when using aliasied IP addresses. IP masquerading uses a kubectl call, so when you have a private cluster, you will need access to the API server.	string	"false"	no
create_service_account	Defines if service account specified to run nodes should be created.	bool	"true"	no
default_max_pods_per_node	The maximum number of pods to schedule per node	string	"110"	no
description	The description of the cluster	string	""	no
disable_legacy_metadata_endpoints	Disable the /0.1/ and /v1beta1/ metadata server endpoints on the node. Changing this value will cause all node pools to be recreated.	bool	"true"	no
grant_registry_access	Grants created cluster-specific service account storage.objectViewer role.	bool	"false"	no
horizontal_pod_autoscaling	Enable horizontal pod autoscaling addon	bool	"true"	no
http_load_balancing	Enable httpload balancer addon	bool	"true"	no
initial_node_count	The number of nodes to create in this cluster's default node pool.	number	"0"	no
ip_masq_link_local	Whether to masquerade traffic to the link-local prefix (169.254.0.0/16).	bool	"false"	no
ip_masq_resync_interval	The interval at which the agent attempts to sync its ConfigMap file from the disk.	string	"60s"	no
ip_range_pods	The name of the secondary subnet ip range to use for pods	string	n/a	yes
ip_range_services	The name of the secondary subnet range to use for services	string	n/a	yes
issue_client_certificate	Issues a client certificate to authenticate to the cluster endpoint. To maximize the security of your cluster, leave this option disabled. Client certificates don't automatically rotate and aren't easily revocable. WARNING: changing this after cluster creation is destructive!	bool	"false"	no
kubernetes_version	The Kubernetes version of the masters. If set to 'latest' it will pull latest available version in the selected region.	string	"latest"	no
logging_service	The logging service that the cluster should write logs to. Available options include logging.googleapis.com, logging.googleapis.com/kubernetes (beta), and none	string	"logging.googleapis.com/kubernetes"	no
maintenance_start_time	Time window specified for daily or recurring maintenance operations in RFC3339 format	string	"05:00"	no
master_authorized_networks	List of master authorized networks. If none are provided, disallow external access (except the cluster node IPs, which GKE automatically whitelists).	object	<list>	no
monitoring_service	The monitoring service that the cluster should write metrics to. Automatically send metrics from pods in the cluster to the Google Cloud Monitoring API. VM metrics will be collected by Google Compute Engine regardless of this setting Available options include monitoring.googleapis.com, monitoring.googleapis.com/kubernetes (beta) and none	string	"monitoring.googleapis.com/kubernetes"	no
name	The name of the cluster (required)	string	n/a	yes
network	The VPC network to host the cluster in (required)	string	n/a	yes
network_policy	Enable network policy addon	bool	"true"	no
network_policy_provider	The network policy provider.	string	"CALICO"	no
network_project_id	The project ID of the shared VPC's host (for shared vpc support)	string	""	no
node_pools	List of maps containing node pools	list(map(string))	<list>	no
node_pools_labels	Map of maps containing node labels by node-pool name	map(map(string))	<map>	no
node_pools_metadata	Map of maps containing node metadata by node-pool name	map(map(string))	<map>	no
node_pools_oauth_scopes	Map of lists containing node oauth scopes by node-pool name	map(list(string))	<map>	no
node_pools_tags	Map of lists containing node network tags by node-pool name	map(list(string))	<map>	no
node_version	The Kubernetes version of the node pools. Defaults kubernetes_version (master) variable and can be overridden for individual node pools by setting the version key on them. Must be empyty or set the same as master at cluster creation.	string	""	no
non_masquerade_cidrs	List of strings in CIDR notation that specify the IP address ranges that do not use IP masquerading.	list(string)	<list>	no
project_id	The project ID to host the cluster in (required)	string	n/a	yes
region	The region to host the cluster in (optional if zonal cluster / required if regional)	string	"null"	no
regional	Whether is a regional cluster (zonal cluster if set false. WARNING: changing this after cluster creation is destructive!)	bool	"true"	no
registry_project_id	Project holding the Google Container Registry. If empty, we use the cluster project. If grant_registry_access is true, storage.objectViewer role is assigned on this project.	string	""	no
remove_default_node_pool	Remove default node pool while setting up the cluster	bool	"false"	no
service_account	The service account to run nodes as if not overridden in node_pools. The create_service_account variable default value (true) will cause a cluster-specific service account to be created.	string	""	no
skip_provisioners	Flag to skip all local-exec provisioners. It breaks stub_domains and upstream_nameservers variables functionality.	bool	"false"	no
stub_domains	Map of stub domains and their resolvers to forward DNS queries for a certain domain to an external DNS server	map(list(string))	<map>	no
subnetwork	The subnetwork to host the cluster in (required)	string	n/a	yes
upstream_nameservers	If specified, the values replace the nameservers taken by default from the node’s /etc/resolv.conf	list(string)	<list>	no
zones	The zones to host the cluster in (optional if regional cluster / required if zonal)	list(string)	<list>	no

Outputs

Name	Description
ca_certificate	Cluster ca certificate (base64 encoded)
endpoint	Cluster endpoint
horizontal_pod_autoscaling_enabled	Whether horizontal pod autoscaling enabled
http_load_balancing_enabled	Whether http load balancing enabled
location	Cluster location (region if regional cluster, zone if zonal cluster)
logging_service	Logging service used
master_authorized_networks_config	Networks from which access to master is permitted
master_version	Current master kubernetes version
min_master_version	Minimum master kubernetes version
monitoring_service	Monitoring service used
name	Cluster name
network_policy_enabled	Whether network policy enabled
node_pools_names	List of node pools names
node_pools_versions	List of node pools versions
region	Cluster region
service_account	The service account to default running nodes as if not overridden in node_pools.
type	Cluster type (regional / zonal)
zones	List of zones in which the cluster resides

node_pools variable

The node_pools variable takes the following parameters:

Name	Description	Default	Requirement
accelerator_count	The number of the guest accelerator cards exposed to this instance	0	Optional
accelerator_type	The accelerator type resource to expose to the instance	" "	Optional
auto_repair	Whether the nodes will be automatically repaired	true	Optional
autoscaling	Configuration required by cluster autoscaler to adjust the size of the node pool to the current cluster usage	true	Optional
auto_upgrade	Whether the nodes will be automatically upgraded	true (if cluster is regional)	Optional
disk_size_gb	Size of the disk attached to each node, specified in GB. The smallest allowed disk size is 10GB	100GB	Optional
disk_type	Type of the disk attached to each node (e.g. 'pd-standard' or 'pd-ssd')	pd-standard	Optional
image_type	The image type to use for this node. Note that changing the image type will delete and recreate all nodes in the node pool	COS	Optional
initial_node_count	The initial number of nodes for the pool. In regional or multi-zonal clusters, this is the number of nodes per zone. Changing this will force recreation of the resource. Defaults to the value of min_count	" "	Optional
local_ssd_count	The amount of local SSD disks that will be attached to each cluster node	0	Optional
machine_type	The name of a Google Compute Engine machine type	n1-standard-2	Optional
max_count	Maximum number of nodes in the NodePool. Must be >= min_count	100	Optional
min_count	Minimum number of nodes in the NodePool. Must be >=0 and <= max_count. Should be used when autoscaling is true	1	Optional
name	The name of the node pool		Required
node_count	The number of nodes in the nodepool when autoscaling is false. Otherwise defaults to 1. Only valid for non-autoscaling clusers		Required
preemptible	A boolean that represents whether or not the underlying node VMs are preemptible	false	Optional
service_account	The service account to be used by the Node VMs	" "	Optional
tags	The list of instance tags applied to all nodes		Required
version	The Kubernetes version for the nodes in this pool. Should only be set if auto_upgrade is false	" "	Optional

Requirements

Before this module can be used on a project, you must ensure that the following pre-requisites are fulfilled:

1. Terraform and kubectl are installed on the machine where Terraform is executed.
2. The Service Account you execute the module with has the right permissions.
3. The Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine APIs are active on the project you will launch the cluster in.
4. If you are using a Shared VPC, the APIs must also be activated on the Shared VPC host project and your service account needs the proper permissions there.

The project factory can be used to provision projects with the correct APIs active and the necessary Shared VPC connections.

Software Dependencies

Kubectl

• kubectl 1.9.x

Terraform and Plugins

• Terraform 0.12
• Terraform Provider for GCP v2.9

Configure a Service Account

In order to execute this module you must have a Service Account with the following project roles:

• roles/compute.viewer
• roles/container.clusterAdmin
• roles/container.developer
• roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin
• roles/iam.serviceAccountUser
• roles/resourcemanager.projectIamAdmin (only required if service_account is set to create)

Additionally, if service_account is set to create and grant_registry_access is requested, the service account requires the following role on the registry_project_id project:

• roles/resourcemanager.projectIamAdmin

Enable APIs

In order to operate with the Service Account you must activate the following APIs on the project where the Service Account was created:

• Compute Engine API - compute.googleapis.com
• Kubernetes Engine API - container.googleapis.com

File structure

The project has the following folders and files:

• /: root folder
• /examples: Examples for using this module and sub module.
• /helpers: Helper scripts.
• /scripts: Scripts for specific tasks on module (see Infrastructure section on this file).
• /test: Folders with files for testing the module (see Testing section on this file).
• /main.tf: main file for the public module, contains all the resources to create.
• /variables.tf: Variables for the public cluster module.
• /output.tf: The outputs for the public cluster module.
• /README.MD: This file.
• /modules: Private and beta sub modules.