Use an MKE configuration file

Put the MKE configuration file to work for the following use cases:

  • Set the configuration file to run at the install time of new MKE clusters

  • Use the API to import the file back into the same cluster

  • Use the API to import the file into multiple clusters

To make use of an MKE configuration file, you edit the file using either the MKE web UI or the command line interface (CLI). Using the CLI, you can either export the existing configuration file for editing, or use the example-config command to view and edit an example TOML MKE configuration file.

docker container run --rm
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  mirantis/ucp:3.6.20 \ example-config

Modify an existing MKE configuration

Working as an MKE admin, use the config-toml API from within the directory of your client certificate bundle to export the current MKE settings to a TOML file.

As detailed herein, the command set exports the current configuration for the MKE hostname MKE_HOST to a file named mke-config.toml:

  1. Define the following environment variables:

    export MKE_USERNAME=<mke-username>
export MKE_PASSWORD=<mke-password>
export MKE_HOST=<mke-fqdm-or-ip-address>

  2. Obtain and define an AUTHTOKEN environment variable:

    AUTHTOKEN=$(curl --silent --insecure --data '{"username":"'$MKE_USERNAME'","password":"'$MKE_PASSWORD'"}' https://$MKE_HOST/auth/login | jq --raw-output .auth_token)

  3. Download the current MKE configuration file.

    curl --silent --insecure -X GET "https://$MKE_HOST/api/ucp/config-toml" -H "accept: application/toml" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTHTOKEN" > mke-config.toml

  4. Edit the MKE configuration file, as needed. For comprehensive detail, refer to Configuration options.

  5. Upload the newly edited MKE configuration file:

    Note

    You may need to reacquire the AUTHTOKEN, if significant time has passed since you first acquired it.

    curl --silent --insecure -X PUT -H "accept: application/toml" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTHTOKEN" --upload-file 'mke-config.toml' https://$MKE_HOST/api/ucp/config-toml

Apply an existing configuration at install time

To customize a new MKE instance using a configuration file, you must create the file prior to installation. Then, once the new configuration file is ready, you can configure MKE to import it during the installation process using Docker Swarm.

To import a configuration file at installation:

  1. Create a Docker Swarm Config object named com.docker.mke.config and the TOML value of your MKE configuration file contents.

  2. When installing MKE on the cluster, specify the --existing-config flag to force the installer to use the new Docker Swarm Config object for its initial configuration.

  3. Following the installation, delete the com.docker.mke.config object.