Apache Ignite on your Kubernetes Cluster Part 3: Configuration explained

Previously we had a look on the RBAC needed for and ignite cluster in Kubernetes.
This blogs focuses on the deployment and the configuration of the cache.

The default ignite installation uses and xml based configuration. It is easy to mount files using configmaps.

> kubectl get configmap ignite-cache-configmap -o yaml
NAME                     DATA   AGE
ignite-cache-configmap   1      32d
gkatzioura@MacBook-Pro-2 templates % kubectl get configmap ignite-cache-configmap -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
  ignite-config.xml: "....\n"
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2020-03-07T22:23:50Z
  name: ignite-cache-configmap
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "137521"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/configmaps/ignite-cache-configmap
  uid: ff530e3d-10d6-4708-817f-f9845886c1b0

Since viewing the xml from the configmap is cumbersome this is the actual xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="
		       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
	<bean class="org.apache.ignite.configuration.IgniteConfiguration">
		<property
				name="peerClassLoadingEnabled" value="false"/>
		<property name="dataStorageConfiguration">
			<bean class="org.apache.ignite.configuration.DataStorageConfiguration">
			</bean>
		</property>
		<property
				name="discoverySpi">
			<bean class="org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.TcpDiscoverySpi">
				<property name="ipFinder">
					<bean class="org.apache.ignite.spi.discovery.tcp.ipfinder.kubernetes.TcpDiscoveryKubernetesIpFinder">
						<property name="namespace" value="default"/>
						<property
								name="serviceName" value="ignite-cache"/>
					</bean>
				</property>
			</bean>
		</property>
	</bean>
</beans>

The default DataStorageConfiguration is being used.
What you can see different from other ignite installations is TCP discovery. The tcp discover used is using the Kubernetes TCP based discovery.

The next blog focuses on the services and the deployment.