--- title: How to set up Kubernetes with conjure-up and monitor apps with Weave description: On August 2, Luke Marsden (Weaveworks) and Marco Ceppi (Canonical) presented a webinar on how to Speed up your software development lifecycle with Kubernetes. In the session they described how you can use conjure-up and Weave Cloud to set up, manage and monitor an app in Kubernetes. In this tutorial we’re going to show you […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/tutorial-set-up-kubernetes-on-any-cloud-and-monitor-apps-with-weave?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Marco Ceppi](https://canonical.com/blog/author/marcoceppi "More about Marco Ceppi") 17 August 2017 # How to set up Kubernetes with conjure-up and monitor apps with Weave [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/canonical) [cloud containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/cloud-containers) [containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/containers) [k8s](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/k8s) [kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/kubernetes) [spotlight](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/spotlight) [Tutorial](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/tutorial) [Weave Cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/weave-cloud) [weaveworks](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/weaveworks) --- Share the article On August 2, Luke Marsden (Weaveworks) and Marco Ceppi (Canonical) presented a webinar on how to [Speed up your software development lifecycle with Kubernetes](http://ubunt.eu/5rkdM3). In the session they described how you can use [conjure-up](http://conjure-up.io/) and [Weave Cloud](https://www.weave.works/product/cloud/) to set up, manage and monitor an app in Kubernetes. In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to set up Kubernetes on any cloud, the conjure-up way. Once the cluster is spun up, you’ll use Weave Cloud to deploy an application, explore the microservices and monitor the app as it runs in the cluster. ## Why Canonical & Weaveworks? Canonical’s conjure-up makes it easy to deploy and operate Kubernetes in production, using a neat, easy-to-use CLI installer. Weave Cloud fills in the gaps missing with a Kubernetes install and provides the tools necessary for a full development lifecycle: * **Deploy** – plug output of CI system into cluster so that you can ship features faster * **Explore** – visualize and understand what’s happening so that you can fix problems faster * **Monitor** – understand behavior of running system so that you can fix problems faster using Prometheus **Weave Cloud Development Lifecycle** ## Installing Kubernetes with conjure-up 1. Use conjure-up to install Kubernetes on your cloud infrastructure (LXD provider is not currently supported by Weave Cloud) * 2. Run the following script to enable privileged containers & set up RBAC properly: ``` juju config kubernetes-master allow-privileged=true juju config kubernetes-worker allow-privileged=true juju ssh kubernetes-master/0 -- 'sudo snap set kube-apiserver authorization-mode=RBAC' sleep 120 juju ssh kubernetes-master/0 -- '/snap/bin/kubectl create clusterrolebinding root-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=admin && /snap/bin/kubectl create clusterrolebinding kubelet-node-binding --clusterrole=system:node --user=kubelet' ``` 3. Run ``` export KUBECONFIG= ``` find the path from e.g. ``` cat ~/bin/kubectl.conjure ``` You may wish to make this permanent by adding the export command to your ~/.bash\_profile or equivalent shell startup script. Once you have the environment variable in place, you can run kubectl commands against the cluster. Try it out with ``` kubectl get nodes ``` ## Connecting your conjured up cluster to Weave Cloud 4. Next you will visualize the Kubernetes cluster in Weave Cloud. Sign up for [Weave Cloud](https://cloud.weave.works). Select **Setup** **→ Kubernetes** **→ Generic Kubernetes** and then cut and paste the Kubernetes command from the Weave Cloud UI into your terminal: **Weave Cloud Token and command location** For example, you would run: ``` kubectl apply -n kube-system -f \ "https://cloud.weave.works/k8s.yaml?t=[CLOUD-TOKEN]&k8s-version=$(kubectl version | base64 | tr -d '\n')" ``` Where, * **[CLOUD-TOKEN]** is the Weave Cloud token. The cluster should now appear in Weave Cloud. Check **Explore → Hosts** to see all five hosts: 5. Deploy the Sock Shop by first creating the namespace, checking it out of Git and then changing the kubernetes deploy directory: ``` kubectl create namespace sock-shop git clone https://github.com/microservices-demo/microservices-demo cd microservices-demo kubectl apply -n sock-shop -f deploy/kubernetes/manifests ``` Now you should be able to see the Sock Shop in Weave Cloud Explore (click Controllers and select the sock-shop namespace filter from the bottom left): And you should be able to access the shop in your browser, using the IP address of one of your Kubernetes nodes at port :30001. Once the app is loaded, try out the Monitoring tool in Weave Cloud to observe the latencies between services in the cluster. Click ***Monitor*** and then run the following query: ``` rate(request_duration_seconds_sum[1m])/rate(request_duration_seconds_count[1m]) ``` You should see all the different requests latencies for all the services in the sock shop. This is possible because the sock shop is instrumented with the [Prometheus client libraries](https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/). **Conclusion** In this post, we showed you how to get from nothing to a Kubernetes cluster using [Canonical’s conjure-up](http://conjure-up.io). We then showed you how to install the Weave Cloud agents and just scratched the surface of what you can do with [Weave Cloud](http://weave.works/): monitoring the request latencies on a Prometheus-instrumented app, the sock shop. **Next steps** * [Watch the webinar on-demand](http://ubunt.eu/5rkdM3) * Learn more about [Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes](https://www.ubuntu.com/containers/kubernetes) * [Get started with Weave Cloud](https://www.weave.works/docs/) or [sign up for a free trial](https://go.weave.works/canonical-weavecloud) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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