How To: Astra Multi Cloud

In the previous article How To: Astra Service Broker I showed you how to setup your environment and spin up a devdb in Astra free tier using the Astra Kubernetes Service Broker. In this next how to I am going to show you how to spin up 3 production C10 instances in Astra. One on AWS, one on Azure, and one on GCP. Contents of the yamls are below, or check out my github.

Create the Instances

kubectl apply -f astra-service-instance.yaml

serviceinstance.servicecatalog.k8s.io/devdb-gcp created
serviceinstance.servicecatalog.k8s.io/devdb-aws created
serviceinstance.servicecatalog.k8s.io/devdb-azure created

WARNING Magic is happening here, be patient. My times were in excess of 20 minutes “provisioning”.

Astra Multi Cloud

Check Instance Status

kubectl get serviceinstances

NAME          CLASS                         PLAN   STATUS         AGE
devdb-azure   ServiceClass/astra-database   C10    Provisioning   40m
devdb-gcp     ServiceClass/astra-database   C10    Ready          40m
devdb-aws     ServiceClass/astra-database   C10    Ready          40m

At 40 minutes I can see all 3 Databases Active in Astra: Astra Multi Cloud

Bind the Instances

kubectl apply -f astra-service-binding.yaml

servicebinding.servicecatalog.k8s.io/devdb-gcp created
servicebinding.servicecatalog.k8s.io/devdb-aws created
servicebinding.servicecatalog.k8s.io/devdb-azure created

Check Binding Status

kubectl get servicebindings                    

NAME          SERVICE-INSTANCE   SECRET-NAME   STATUS                  AGE
devdb-gcp     devdb-gcp          devdb-gcp     ErrorInstanceNotReady   9m44s
devdb-aws     devdb-aws          devdb-aws     ErrorInstanceNotReady   9m44s
devdb-azure   devdb-azure        devdb-azure   ErrorInstanceNotReady   9m44s

WARNING Again be patient here, rolling out all 3 cloud clusters is about 40 minutes.

Get Instance Access Credentials

kubectl get secrets devdb-gcp -o yaml
kubectl get secrets devdb-aws -o yaml
kubectl get secrets devdb-azure -o yaml

Astra Service Instance YAML

apiVersion: servicecatalog.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ServiceInstance
metadata:
  name: devdb-gcp
  namespace: default
spec:
  parameters:
    capacity_units: 1
    cloud_provider: GCP
    keyspace: petclinic
    region: us-east1
  serviceClassExternalName: astra-database
  servicePlanExternalName: C10
---
apiVersion: servicecatalog.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ServiceInstance
metadata:
  name: devdb-aws
  namespace: default
spec:
  parameters:
    capacity_units: 1
    cloud_provider: AWS
    keyspace: petclinic
    region: us-east-1
  serviceClassExternalName: astra-database
  servicePlanExternalName: C10
---
apiVersion: servicecatalog.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ServiceInstance
metadata:
  name: devdb-azure
  namespace: default
spec:
  parameters:
    capacity_units: 1
    cloud_provider: AZURE
    keyspace: petclinic
    region: eastus
  serviceClassExternalName: astra-database
  servicePlanExternalName: C10

Astra Service Binding YAML

apiVersion: servicecatalog.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ServiceBinding
metadata:
  name: devdb-gcp
spec:
  externalID: b946701e-c773-4332-8935-8212e8bdb412
  instanceRef:
    name: devdb-gcp
  secretName: devdb-gcp
---
apiVersion: servicecatalog.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ServiceBinding
metadata:
  name: devdb-aws
spec:
  externalID: b946701e-c773-4332-8935-8212e8bdb412
  instanceRef:
    name: devdb-aws
  secretName: devdb-gcp
---
apiVersion: servicecatalog.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ServiceBinding
metadata:
  name: devdb-azure
spec:
  externalID: b946701e-c773-4332-8935-8212e8bdb412
  instanceRef:
    name: devdb-azure
  secretName: devdb-gcp

What’s Next?

Check out some more kubectl commands that you need to learn for managing your Astra instances.

How can I help you with Astra?

SRM

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