My Portworx

This is my little cheat sheet for deploying Portworx and other stuff. This includes backup and monitoring.

Docs

Portworx Install -https://docs.portworx.com/portworx-enterprise/platform/kubernetes/rancher/install
Portworx Central Install - https://docs.portworx.com/portworx-central-on-prem/install/px-central

install you k8s of choice

I like Digital Ocean : https://github.com/clemenko/rke2

add volumes on DO if needed

I need to add volumes.

for num in 1 2 3; do
   doctl compute volume-action attach $(doctl compute volume create port$num --region nyc1 --size 60GiB | grep -v ID| awk '{print $1}') $(doctl compute droplet list | grep rke$num | awk '{print $1}')
done

Create PX StorageCluster spec

Create an account and get the spec from https://central.portworx.com/specGen

We will need 3 things. A. The operator install. B. The StorageCluster and C. A patch for the storageclass.

install portworx

# operator
kubectl apply -f 'https://install.portworx.com/3.3?comp=pxoperator&kbver=1.31.0&ns=portworx'

# StorageCluster spec
kubectl apply -f 'https://install.portworx.com/3.3?operator=true&mc=false&kbver=1.31.0&ns=portworx&b=true&iop=6&c=px-cluster1&stork=true&csi=true&mon=true&tel=false&st=k8s&promop=true'

# make a default storage class
kubectl patch storageclass px-csi-db -p '{"metadata": {"annotations":{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class":"true"}}}'

Note you may need to either use k8s 1.31.x or add portworx.io/health-check: "skip" as an annotation in the storagecluster object.

Add monitor/gui

add portworx central

helm repo add portworx http://charts.portworx.io/ --force-update

helm upgrade -i px-central portworx/px-central --namespace px-central --create-namespace --set persistentStorage.enabled=true,persistentStorage.storageClassName="px-csi-db",service.pxCentralUIServiceType="ClusterIP",pxbackup.enabled=true,pxmonitor.enabled=true,installCRDs=true

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -n px-central -f - 
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: px-central-ui
  namespace: px-central
spec:
  rules:
  - host: px.rfed.io
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: px-central-ui
            port:
              number: 80
        path: /
        pathType: ImplementationSpecific
EOF

Add Grafana

https://docs.portworx.com/portworx-enterprise/operations/operate-kubernetes/monitoring/monitor-portworx-cluster#configure-grafana

tl:dr

export PX_URL="https://docs.portworx.com/samples/portworx-enterprise/k8s/pxc"

# create config maps
kubectl create configmap -n portworx  grafana-dashboard-config --from-literal=grafana-dashboard-config.yaml="$(curl -sk $PX_URL/grafana-dashboard-config.yaml)"
kubectl create configmap -n portworx  grafana-source-config --from-literal=grafana-dashboard-config.yaml="$(curl -sk $PX_URL/grafana-datasource.yaml)"

# dashboards
kubectl -n portworx create configmap grafana-dashboards \
--from-literal=portworx-cluster-dashboard.json="$(curl -sk $PX_URL/portworx-cluster-dashboard.json)" \
--from-literal=portworx-performance-dashboard.json="$(curl -sk $PX_URL/portworx-performance-dashboard.json)" \
--from-literal=portworx-node-dashboard.json="$(curl -sk $PX_URL/portworx-node-dashboard.json)" \
--from-literal=portworx-volume-dashboard.json="$(curl -sk $PX_URL/portworx-volume-dashboard.json)" \
--from-literal=portworx-etcd-dashboard.json="$(curl -sk $PX_URL/portworx-etcd-dashboard.json)"

# install with ingress
cat << EOF | kubectl apply -n portworx -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: grafana
  labels:
    app: grafana
spec:
  type: ClusterIP
  ports:
    - port: 3000
  selector:
    app: grafana
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: grafana
  labels:
    app: grafana
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: grafana
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: grafana
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: grafana/grafana
          name: grafana
          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
          volumeMounts:
            - name: grafana-dash-config
              mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards
            - name: dashboard-templates
              mountPath: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards
            - name: grafana-source-config
              mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources
      volumes:
        - name: grafana-source-config
          configMap:
            name: grafana-source-config
        - name: grafana-dash-config
          configMap:
            name: grafana-dashboard-config
        - name: dashboard-templates
          configMap:
            name: grafana-dashboards
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: grafana
spec:
  rules:
  - host: grafana.rfed.io
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: grafana
            port:
              number: 3000
        path: /
        pathType: ImplementationSpecific
EOF

Now navigate to URL you replace grafana.rfed.io with and login with admin and admin.

Air Gap

Here is the list of images : https://install.portworx.com/3.2/images?kbver=1.31.0

And for central : https://docs.portworx.com/portworx-central-on-prem/install/air-gapped-install

clemenko/portworx_install.md