Service Preview has been replaced by Telepresence, these docs will remain as a historical reference. Learn more about Telepresence or go to the quick start guide.

Service Preview Quick Start

Service Preview is installed as an addon to the Ambassador Edge Stack.

Prerequisites

kubectl access to a Kubernetes cluster
edgectl client

Install

There are three method for installing Service Preview.

Install with Edgectl

If you are installing Service Preview and Ambassador Edge Stack for the first time, edgectl will automatically bootstrap and integrate both tools in your cluster.

The YAML installation method will walk you through a step-by-step deployment of all the resources necessary for installing Service Preview alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack. The YAML installation method is the most common approach to install Ambassador Edge Stack, especially in production environments, with our default, customizable manifest.

Install with Helm

Helm is a popular Kubernetes package manager. The Ambassador helm chart allows you to install Service Preview alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack.

Install with Edgectl

If you are a new user, or you are looking to start using Ambassador Edge Stack with Service Preview on a fresh installation, the edgectl install command will get you up and running in no time with a pre-configured Traffic Manager and Traffic Agent supported by automatic sidecar injection.

1. Install the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector Alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack

The Traffic Manager is what is responsible for managing communications between your Kubernetes cluster and your local machine.

Services in your cluster opt-in to using Service Preview by injecting the Traffic Agent sidecar. Service Preview includes an automatic sidecar injection feature which simplifies the process of injecting the Traffic Agent as sidecars to your services.

Run the following command to let edgectl bootstrap your cluster with Ambassador, the Traffic Manager, and Ambassador Injector:

$ edgectl install

2. Connect to your Cluster

Now that you installed the Traffic Manager, you can connect to your cluster using edgectl.

First, start the daemon on your local machine to prime your local machine for connecting to your cluster

$ sudo edgectl daemon
Launching Edge Control Daemon v1.6.1 (api v1)

The daemon is now running and your local machine is ready to connect to your laptop. See the edgectl daemon reference for more information on how edgectl stages your local machine for connecting to your cluster.

After starting the daemon, you are ready to connect to the Traffic Manager.

Connect your local machine to the cluster with edgectl:

$ edgectl connect
Connecting to traffic manager in namespace ambassador...
Connected to context default (https://34.72.18.227)

edgectl will now attempt to connect to the Traffic Manager in your cluster and bridge your cluster and local networks.

Verify that you are connected to your cluster:

$ edgectl status
Connected
  Context:       default (https://34.72.18.227)
  Proxy:         ON (networking to the cluster is enabled)
  Interceptable: 0 deployments
  Intercepts:    0 total, 0 local

3. Inject the Traffic Agent Sidecar

The Traffic Agent sidecar is required in order to intercept requests to a service and route them to your local machine.

At the moment, you can see that no sidecars are currently available with edgectl:

$ edgectl intercept available
No interceptable deployments

The Traffic Agent sidecar needs to be added to any service that you would like to use with Service Preview.

With the automatic injector, we can simply add it to our services by annotating the pod with getambassador.io/inject-traffic-agent: enabled.

First, you need to create the RBAC resources required for the Traffic Agent to run in the namespace you want to intercept.

The following will create the required resources in the default namespace. If you would like to run Service Preview in another namespace, you need to download and edit the YAML and

change the namespace of the ServiceAcount and Secret
edit the ClusterRoleBinding to reference the traffic-agent ServiceAccount in the appropriate namespace

Create the RBAC resources with kubectl:

kubectl apply -f https://getambassador.io/yaml/traffic-agent-rbac.yaml

Then, apply the Hello service manifest that is annotated to inject the Traffic Agent.

kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  selector:
    app: hello
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: http
---
apiVersion: getambassador.io/v2
kind: Mapping
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  prefix: /hello/
  service: hello:80
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        getambassador.io/inject-traffic-agent: enabled # Enable automatic Traffic Agent sidecar injection
      labels:
        app: hello
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: hello
          image: docker.io/datawire/hello-world:latest
          ports:
            - name: http
              containerPort: 8000 
EOF
 
service/hello created
mapping.getambassador.io/hello created
deployment.apps/hello created

After applying the above manifest, you can see that there is now an available service to intercept.

$ edgectl intercept available
Found 1 interceptable deployment(s):
   1. hello in namespace default

Take a look at the Traffic Agent reference for more information on how to connect your services to Service Preview.

Service Preview is now installed in your cluster and ready to intercept traffic sent to the Hello service!

Next Steps

Now that you have Service Preview installed, let's see how you can use it to intercept traffic sent to services in your Kubernetes cluster!

Take a look at the Service Preview Tutorial to get Service Preview working for the Hello service we installed!

Install with YAML

Downloading and installing our published Kubernetes YAML gives you full control over the installation of Service Preview. This is the most popular approach for running Service Preview in production and in CI.

1. Install the Ambassador Edge Stack

Service Preview runs alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack.

Install Ambassador Edge Stack if you do not already have it running.

2. Install the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector

The Traffic Manager is what is responsible for managing communications between your Kubernetes cluster and your local machine.

Deploy the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector in the ambassador namespace with kubectl:

kubectl apply -f https://getambassador.io/yaml/traffic-manager.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://getambassador.io/yaml/ambassador-injector.yaml

The above will deploy:

ServiceAccount, ClusterRole, and ClusterRoleBinding named traffic-manager to grant the Traffic Manager the necessary RBAC permissions.
A Service and Deployment named telepresence-proxy which is the name for the Traffic Manager in the cluster.
The Ambassador Injector with a MutatingWebhookConfiguration that allows injection of the Traffic Agent sidecar in newly created pods.

See the Traffic Manager reference for more information on this deployment.

The traffic manager is now installed in the Ambassador namespace in your cluster and is ready to connect your cluster to your local machine.

3. Connect to your Cluster

Now that you installed the Traffic Manager, you can connect to your cluster using edgectl.

First, start the daemon on your local machine to prime your local machine for connecting to your cluster

$ sudo edgectl daemon
Launching Edge Control Daemon v1.6.1 (api v1)

After starting the daemon, you are ready to connect to the Traffic Manager.

Connect your local machine to the cluster with edgectl:

$ edgectl connect
Connecting to traffic manager in namespace ambassador...
Connected to context default (https://34.72.18.227)

edgectl will now attempt to connect to the Traffic Manager in your cluster and bridge your cluster and local networks.

Verify that you are connected to your cluster:

$ edgectl status
Connected
  Context:       default (https://34.72.18.227)
  Proxy:         ON (networking to the cluster is enabled)
  Interceptable: 0 deployments
  Intercepts:    0 total, 0 local

5. Inject the Traffic Agent Sidecar

The Traffic Agent sidecar is required in order to intercept requests to a service and route them to your local machine.

At the moment, you can see that no sidecars are currently available with edgectl:

$ edgectl intercept available
No interceptable deployments

The Traffic Agent sidecar needs to be added to any service that you would like to use with Service Preview.

With the automatic injector, we can simply add it to our services by annotating the pod with getambassador.io/inject-traffic-agent: enabled.

First, you need to create the RBAC resources required for the Traffic

The following will create the required resources in the default namespace. If you would like to run Service Preview in another namespace, you need to download and edit the YAML and

change the namespace of the ServiceAcount and Secret
edit the ClusterRoleBinding to reference the traffic-agent ServiceAccount in the appropriate namespace

Create the RBAC resources with kubectl:

kubectl apply -f https://getambassador.io/yaml/traffic-agent-rbac.yaml
Then, apply the `Hello` service manifest that is annotated to inject the Traffic Agent.
```sh
kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  selector:
    app: hello
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: http
---
apiVersion: getambassador.io/v2
kind: Mapping
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  prefix: /hello/
  service: hello:80
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        getambassador.io/inject-traffic-agent: enabled # Enable automatic Traffic Agent sidecar injection
      labels:
        app: hello
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: hello
          image: docker.io/datawire/hello-world:latest
          ports:
            - name: http
              containerPort: 8000 
EOF
 
service/hello created
mapping.getambassador.io/hello created
deployment.apps/hello created

After applying the above manifest, you can see that there is now an available service to intercept.

$ edgectl intercept available
Found 1 interceptable deployment(s):
   1. hello in namespace default

Take a look at the Traffic Agent reference for more information on how to connect your services to Service Preview.

Service Preview is now installed in your cluster and ready to intercept traffic sent to the Hello service!

Next Steps

Now that you have Service Preview installed, let's see how you can use it to intercept traffic sent to services in your Kubernetes cluster!

Take a look at the Service Preview Tutorial to get Service Preview working for the Hello service we installed!

Install with Helm

Helm is a popular package manager for Kubernetes software. The Ambassador helm chart contains a lot of configuration options that make it easy to deploy and upgrade a custom configuration of Ambassador Edge Stack.

The Ambassador chart also contains configurations for installing Service Preview alongside Ambassador Edge Stack.

1. Install the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector Alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack

The Traffic Manager is what is responsible for managing communications between your Kubernetes cluster and your local machine.

These services are available to be deployed in the helm chart.

Install Service Preview alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack with the following values.yaml options:

servicePreview:
  enabled: true

Create the Ambassador namespace if it is not already created:

$ kubectl create namespace ambassador

Upgrade or install your release of the Ambassador Edge Stack with the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector

$ helm upgrade --install ambassador -n ambassador datawire/ambassador -f values.yaml

2. Connect to your Cluster

Now that you installed the Traffic Manager, you can connect to your cluster using edgectl.

First, start the daemon on your local machine to prime your local machine for connecting to your cluster

$ sudo edgectl daemon
Launching Edge Control Daemon v1.6.1 (api v1)

After starting the daemon, you are ready to connect to the Traffic Manager.

Connect your local machine to the cluster with edgectl:

$ edgectl connect
Connecting to traffic manager in namespace ambassador...
Connected to context default (https://34.72.18.227)

edgectl will now attempt to connect to the Traffic Manager in your cluster and bridge your cluster and local networks.

Verify that you are connected to your cluster:

$ edgectl status
Connected
  Context:       default (https://34.72.18.227)
  Proxy:         ON (networking to the cluster is enabled)
  Interceptable: 0 deployments
  Intercepts:    0 total, 0 local

3. Inject the Traffic Agent Sidecar

The Traffic Agent sidecar is required in order to intercept requests to a service and route them to your local machine.

At the moment, you can see that no sidecars are currently available with edgectl:

$ edgectl intercept available
No interceptable deployments

The Traffic Agent sidecar needs to be added to any service that you would like to use with Service Preview.

With the automatic injector, we can simply add it to our services by annotating the pod with getambassador.io/inject-traffic-agent: enabled.

First, you need to create the RBAC resources required for the Traffic

The following will create the required resources in the default namespace. If you would like to run Service Preview in another namespace, you need to download and edit the YAML and

change the namespace of the ServiceAcount and Secret
edit the ClusterRoleBinding to reference the traffic-agent ServiceAccount in the appropriate namespace

Create the RBAC resources with kubectl:

kubectl apply -f https://getambassador.io/yaml/traffic-agent-rbac.yaml

Then, apply the Hello service manifest that is annotated to inject the Traffic Agent.

kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  selector:
    app: hello
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: http
---
apiVersion: getambassador.io/v2
kind: Mapping
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  prefix: /hello/
  service: hello:80
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: hello
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: hello
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        getambassador.io/inject-traffic-agent: enabled # Enable automatic Traffic Agent sidecar injection
      labels:
        app: hello
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: hello
          image: docker.io/datawire/hello-world:latest
          ports:
            - name: http
              containerPort: 8000 
EOF
 
service/hello created
mapping.getambassador.io/hello created
deployment.apps/hello created

After applying the above manifest, you can see that there is now an available service to intercept.

$ edgectl intercept available
Found 1 interceptable deployment(s):
   1. hello in namespace default

Take a look at the Traffic Agent reference for more information on how to connect your services to Service Preview.

Service Preview is now installed in your cluster and ready to intercept traffic sent to the Hello service!

Next Steps

Now that you have Service Preview installed, let's see how you can use it to intercept traffic sent to services in your Kubernetes cluster!

Take a look at the Service Preview Tutorial to get Service Preview working for the Hello service we installed!

Questions?

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Service Preview Quick Start

Prerequisites

Install

Install with Edgectl

Install with YAML

Install with Helm

Install with Edgectl

1. Install the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector Alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack

2. Connect to your Cluster

3. Inject the Traffic Agent Sidecar

Next Steps

Install with YAML

1. Install the Ambassador Edge Stack

2. Install the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector

3. Connect to your Cluster

5. Inject the Traffic Agent Sidecar

Next Steps

Install with Helm

1. Install the Traffic Manager and Ambassador Injector Alongside the Ambassador Edge Stack

2. Connect to your Cluster

3. Inject the Traffic Agent Sidecar

Next Steps

Questions?