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Deploy app resources to a collection

Deploy app resources to a collection

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine enforces role-based access control when you deploy services. By default, you don’t need to do anything, because MKE deploys your services to a default collection, unless you specify another one. You can customize the default collection in your MKE profile page.

MKE defines a collection by its path. For example, a user’s default collection has the path /Shared/Private/<username>. To deploy a service to a collection that you specify, assign the collection’s path to the access label of the service. The access label is named com.docker.ucp.access.label.

When MKE deploys a service, it doesn’t automatically create the collections that correspond with your access labels. An administrator must create these collections and grant users access to them. Deployment fails if MKE can’t find a specified collection or if the user doesn’t have access to it.

Deploy a service to a collection by using the CLI

Here’s an example of a docker service create command that deploys a service to a /Shared/database collection:

docker service create \
  --name redis_2 \
  --label com.docker.ucp.access.label="/Shared/database"
  redis:3.0.6

Deploy services to a collection by using a Compose file

You can also specify a target collection for a service in a Compose file. In the service definition, add a labels: dictionary, and assign the collection’s path to the com.docker.ucp.access.label key.

If you don’t specify access labels in the Compose file, resources are placed in the user’s default collection when the stack is deployed.

You can place a stack’s resources into multiple collections, but most of the time, you won’t need to do this.

Here’s an example of a Compose file that specifies two services, WordPress and MySQL, and gives them the access label /Shared/wordpress:

version: '3.1'

services:

  wordpress:
    image: wordpress
    networks:
      - wp
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    environment:
      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: example
    deploy:
      labels:
        com.docker.ucp.access.label: /Shared/wordpress
  mysql:
    image: mysql:5.7
    networks:
      - wp
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example
    deploy:
      labels:
        com.docker.ucp.access.label: /Shared/wordpress

networks:
  wp:
    driver: overlay
    labels:
      com.docker.ucp.access.label: /Shared/wordpress

To deploy the application:

  1. In the MKE web UI, navigate to the Stacks page and click Create Stack.
  2. Name the app “wordpress”.
  3. From the Mode dropdown, select Swarm Services.
  4. Copy and paste the previous compose file into the docker-compose.yml editor.
  5. Click Create to deploy the application, and click Done when the deployment completes.

If the /Shared/wordpress collection doesn’t exist, or if you don’t have a grant for accessing it, MKE reports an error.

To confirm that the service deployed to the /Shared/wordpress collection:

  1. In the Stacks page, click wordpress.
  2. In the details pane, click Inspect Resource and select Services.
  3. On the Services page, click wordpress_mysql. In the details pane, make sure that the Collection is /Shared/wordpress.

Note

By default Docker Stacks will create a default overlay network for your stack. It will be attached to each container that is deployed. This works if you have full control over your Default Collection or are an administrator. If your administrators have locked down MKE to only allow you access to specific collections and you manage multiple collections, then it can get very difficult to manage the networks as well and you might run into permissions errors. To fix this, you must define a custom network and attach that to each service. The network must have the same com.docker.ucp.access.label Label as your service. If configured correctly, then your network will correctly be grouped with the other resources in your stack.

updated: 2023-07-26 11:20