Deploying Metering in Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8) service lets you to quickly deploy and manage clusters. This section guides you to deploy Metering Microservice in K8 on-premise environment.

Prerequisites

Before deploying Metering in K8, make sure you have the following software installed in your system.

• Helm should be installed and configured.
• Kubernetes command-line tool kubectl must be installed and configured.
•  Verify the below configurations.

  Configurations	Purpose	Sample Values
  DATABASE_KEY	Select either MongoDB or PostgreSQL database	mysql/mssql
  MSSQL_CONNECTIONURL	Mention MSSQL connection URL	jdbc:sqlserver://metering-db-service:1433;databaseName=metering
  MYSQL_CONNECTIONURL	Mention MySQL connection URL	jdbc:mysql://metering-db-service-np:3306/metering
  kafkabootstrapservers	Mention the URL used to connect kafka	my-cluster-kafka-bootstrap.kafka:9092

On-premise Package Details

Metering Microservice helm package is available as single bundle. This section gives an overview of the helm package.

• Unzip Metering-helm-sql-pack-xxx. The below screen capture shows the unzipped file.

  

• In metering-helm-sql-pack-XXX\metering\images the images are available as shown in the below screen capture.

  

  The helm-chart folder contains the dbinit and svc configuration files that are required for Kubernetes on premise.

  

Deploying Metering Microservice in Kubernetes On-premise

To deploy Metering Microservice (MS) in Kubernetes on-premise, follow the steps below:

1. Download and unzip metering-helm-mysql-pack-xxx.zip.

   Images other than the database service are available in metering-helm-mysql-pack-xxx\metering\images.

2. Load all the images available from the folder to Docker container using the docker load --input <imagename> command.

   EXAMPLE: docker load --input ms-metering-inboxoutbox-DEV.tar

3. Go to metering-helm-mysql-pack-XXX .

4. Run start-metering-mysql.bat/.sh to deploy dbinitmetering for database and metering for other than database services in Kubernetes.

   After successful deployment, Metering MS in Kubernetes appears as shown below.

   

5. Check if all the Api, Ingester and dbinit pods are in the running status.

   

   The IP address used to test API from the local is generated as External-IP in the metering-api-svc pod. The IP address should be localhost and the port is 7018.