Apache Ignite on your Kubernetes Cluster Part 1: Vanilla installation

By all means apache Ignite is an Amazing Open Source project.
Don’t assume it’s just a  Cache. It provides way more.

Kubernetes gets more popular by the day and is also a very convenient tool.
In this tutorial we shall integrate ignite and Kubernetes.

The first step would be to spin up Minikube.

To get ignite on your Kubernetes installation the first step would be to install the helm chart.

>helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
>helm install ignite-cache stable/ignite
NAME: ignite-cache
LAST DEPLOYED: Sat Mar  7 22:23:49 2020
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
To check cluster state please run:

kubectl exec -n default ignite-cache-0 -- /opt/ignite/apache-ignite/bin/control.sh --state

Eventually after this command is issued it is expected to have an ignite cache setup on your kubernetes cluster.

>kubectl get pods
NAME             READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
ignite-cache-0   1/1     Running   0          79s
ignite-cache-1   1/1     Running   0          13s
>kubectl get svc ignite-cache
ignite-cache   ClusterIP   None         <none>        11211/TCP,47100/TCP,47500/TCP,49112/TCP,10800/TCP,8080/TCP,10900/TCP   6m24s

To those familiar with Kubernetes an ignite cache has just been spinned up in your kubernetes cluster and your applications can use the ignite service within the cluster.
The next blog focuses on the service account needed.