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# Crossplane configuration
After [installing](applications.md#crossplane) Crossplane, you must configure it for use.
The process of configuring Crossplane includes:
1. [Configure RBAC permissions](#configure-rbac-permissions).
1. [Configure Crossplane with a cloud provider](#configure-crossplane-with-a-cloud-provider).
1. [Configure managed service access](#configure-managed-service-access).
1. [Set up Resource classes](#setting-up-resource-classes).
1. Use [Auto DevOps configuration options](#auto-devops-configuration-options).
1. [Connect to the PostgreSQL instance](#connect-to-the-postgresql-instance).
To allow Crossplane to provision cloud services such as PostgreSQL, the cloud provider
stack must be configured with a user account. For example:
- A service account for GCP.
- An IAM user for AWS.
Some important notes:
- This guide uses GCP as an example, but the processes for AWS and Azure are similar.
- Crossplane requires the Kubernetes cluster to be VPC native with Alias IPs enabled,
so the IP addresses of the pods can be routed within the GCP network.
First, declare some environment variables with configuration for use in this guide:
```shell
export PROJECT_ID=crossplane-playground # the GCP project where all resources reside.
export NETWORK_NAME=default # the GCP network where your GKE is provisioned.
export REGION=us-central1 # the GCP region where the GKE cluster is provisioned.
```
## Configure RBAC permissions
For GitLab-managed clusters, role-based access control (RBAC) is configured automatically.
For non-GitLab managed clusters, ensure that the service account for the token
provided can manage resources in the `database.crossplane.io` API group:
1. Save the following YAML as `crossplane-database-role.yaml`:
```yaml
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: crossplane-database-role
labels:
rbac.authorization.k8s.io/aggregate-to-edit: "true"
rules:
- apiGroups:
- database.crossplane.io
resources:
- postgresqlinstances
verbs:
- get
- list
- create
- update
- delete
- patch
- watch
```
1. Apply the cluster role to the cluster:
```shell
kubectl apply -f crossplane-database-role.yaml
```
## Configure Crossplane with a cloud provider
See [Configure Your Cloud Provider Account](https://crossplane.github.io/docs/v0.4/cloud-providers.html)
to configure the installed cloud provider stack with a user account.
The Secret, and the Provider resource referencing the Secret, must be
applied to the `gitlab-managed-apps` namespace in the guide. Make sure you change that
while following the process.
## Configure Managed Service Access
Next, configure connectivity between the PostgreSQL database and the GKE cluster
by either:
- Using Crossplane as demonstrated below.
- Directly in the GCP console by
[configuring private services access](https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/configure-private-services-access).
1. Run the following command, which creates a `network.yaml` file, and configures
`GlobalAddress` and connection resources:
```plaintext
cat > network.yaml <<EOF
---
# gitlab-ad-globaladdress defines the IP range that will be allocated
# for cloud services connecting to the instances in the given Network.
apiVersion: compute.gcp.crossplane.io/v1alpha3
kind: GlobalAddress
metadata:
name: gitlab-ad-globaladdress
spec:
providerRef:
name: gcp-provider
reclaimPolicy: Delete
name: gitlab-ad-globaladdress
purpose: VPC_PEERING
addressType: INTERNAL
prefixLength: 16
network: projects/$PROJECT_ID/global/networks/$NETWORK_NAME
---
# gitlab-ad-connection is what allows cloud services to use the allocated
# GlobalAddress for communication. Behind the scenes, it creates a VPC peering
# to the network that those service instances actually live.
apiVersion: servicenetworking.gcp.crossplane.io/v1alpha3
kind: Connection
metadata:
name: gitlab-ad-connection
spec:
providerRef:
name: gcp-provider
reclaimPolicy: Delete
parent: services/servicenetworking.googleapis.com
network: projects/$PROJECT_ID/global/networks/$NETWORK_NAME
reservedPeeringRangeRefs:
- name: gitlab-ad-globaladdress
EOF
```
1. Apply the settings specified in the file with the following command:
```shell
kubectl apply -f network.yaml
```
1. Verify the creation of the network resources, and that both resources are ready and synced.
```shell
kubectl describe connection.servicenetworking.gcp.crossplane.io gitlab-ad-connection
kubectl describe globaladdress.compute.gcp.crossplane.io gitlab-ad-globaladdress
```
## Setting up Resource classes
Use resource classes to define a configuration for the required managed service.
This example defines the PostgreSQL Resource class:
1. Run the following command, which define a `gcp-postgres-standard.yaml` resource
class containing a default `CloudSQLInstanceClass` with labels:
```plaintext
cat > gcp-postgres-standard.yaml <<EOF
apiVersion: database.gcp.crossplane.io/v1beta1
kind: CloudSQLInstanceClass
metadata:
name: cloudsqlinstancepostgresql-standard
labels:
gitlab-ad-demo: "true"
specTemplate:
writeConnectionSecretsToNamespace: gitlab-managed-apps
forProvider:
databaseVersion: POSTGRES_11_7
region: $REGION
settings:
tier: db-custom-1-3840
dataDiskType: PD_SSD
dataDiskSizeGb: 10
ipConfiguration:
privateNetwork: projects/$PROJECT_ID/global/networks/$NETWORK_NAME
# this should match the name of the provider created in the above step
providerRef:
name: gcp-provider
reclaimPolicy: Delete
---
apiVersion: database.gcp.crossplane.io/v1beta1
kind: CloudSQLInstanceClass
metadata:
name: cloudsqlinstancepostgresql-standard-default
annotations:
resourceclass.crossplane.io/is-default-class: "true"
specTemplate:
writeConnectionSecretsToNamespace: gitlab-managed-apps
forProvider:
databaseVersion: POSTGRES_11_7
region: $REGION
settings:
tier: db-custom-1-3840
dataDiskType: PD_SSD
dataDiskSizeGb: 10
ipConfiguration:
privateNetwork: projects/$PROJECT_ID/global/networks/$NETWORK_NAME
# this should match the name of the provider created in the above step
providerRef:
name: gcp-provider
reclaimPolicy: Delete
EOF
```
1. Apply the resource class configuration with the following command:
```shell
kubectl apply -f gcp-postgres-standard.yaml
```
1. Verify creation of the Resource class with the following command:
```shell
kubectl get cloudsqlinstanceclasses
```
The Resource Classes allow you to define classes of service for a managed service.
We could create another `CloudSQLInstanceClass` which requests for a larger or a
faster disk. It could also request for a specific version of the database.
## Auto DevOps Configuration Options
You can run the Auto DevOps pipeline with either of the following options:
- Setting the Environment variables `AUTO_DEVOPS_POSTGRES_MANAGED` and
`AUTO_DEVOPS_POSTGRES_MANAGED_CLASS_SELECTOR` to provision PostgreSQL using Crossplane.
- Overriding values for the Helm chart:
- Set `postgres.managed` to `true`, which selects a default resource class.
Mark the resource class with the annotation
`resourceclass.crossplane.io/is-default-class: "true"`. The CloudSQLInstanceClass
`cloudsqlinstancepostgresql-standard-default` is used to satisfy the claim.
- Set `postgres.managed` to `true` with `postgres.managedClassSelector`
providing the resource class to choose, based on labels. In this case, the
value of `postgres.managedClassSelector.matchLabels.gitlab-ad-demo="true"`
selects the CloudSQLInstance class `cloudsqlinstancepostgresql-standard`
to satisfy the claim request.
The Auto DevOps pipeline should provision a PostgresqlInstance when it runs successfully.
To verify the PostgreSQL instance was created, run this command. When the `STATUS`
field of the PostgresqlInstance changes to `BOUND`, it's successfully provisioned:
```shell
$ kubectl get postgresqlinstance
NAME STATUS CLASS-KIND CLASS-NAME RESOURCE-KIND RESOURCE-NAME AGE
staging-test8 Bound CloudSQLInstanceClass cloudsqlinstancepostgresql-standard CloudSQLInstance xp-ad-demo-24-staging-staging-test8-jj55c 9m
```
The endpoint of the PostgreSQL instance, and the user credentials, are present in
a secret called `app-postgres` within the same project namespace. You can verify the
secret with the following command:
```shell
$ kubectl describe secret app-postgres
Name: app-postgres
Namespace: xp-ad-demo-24-staging
Labels: <none>
Annotations: crossplane.io/propagate-from-name: 108e460e-06c7-11ea-b907-42010a8000bd
crossplane.io/propagate-from-namespace: gitlab-managed-apps
crossplane.io/propagate-from-uid: 10c79605-06c7-11ea-b907-42010a8000bd
Type: Opaque
Data
====
privateIP: 8 bytes
publicIP: 13 bytes
serverCACertificateCert: 1272 bytes
serverCACertificateCertSerialNumber: 1 bytes
serverCACertificateCreateTime: 24 bytes
serverCACertificateExpirationTime: 24 bytes
username: 8 bytes
endpoint: 8 bytes
password: 27 bytes
serverCACertificateCommonName: 98 bytes
serverCACertificateInstance: 41 bytes
serverCACertificateSha1Fingerprint: 40 bytes
```
## Connect to the PostgreSQL instance
Follow this [GCP guide](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-kubernetes-engine) if you
would like to connect to the newly provisioned PostgreSQL database instance on CloudSQL.