Alauda Service Mesh

Alauda Service Mesh Essentials Cluster Plugin

Alauda Service Mesh Essentials cluster plugin provides UI, advance API server and centralized service mesh control plane.

TOC

Downloading

INFO

Alauda Service Mesh Essentials cluster plugin can be retrieved from Alauda Cloud.

Please contact Consumer Support for more information.

Uploading

We need to upload the Alauda Service Mesh Essentials cluster plugin to ACP global cluster.

Procedure

Downloading the violet tool

First, we need to download the violet tool if not present on the machine.

In Platform Management of ACP console:

  1. Click Marketplace / Upload Packages.
  2. Click Download Packaging and Listing Tool.
  3. Locate the right OS / CPU architecture under Execution Environment.
  4. Click Download to download the violet tool.
  5. Run chmod +x ${PATH_TO_THE_VIOLET_TOOL} to make the tool executable.

Uploading package

Then, run the following command to upload the Alauda Service Mesh Essentials cluster plugin to ACP global cluster:

violet push \
    ${PKG_NAME} \
    --platform-address=${PLATFORM_ADDRESS} \
    --platform-username=${PLATFORM_ADMIN_USER} \
    --platform-password=${PLATFORM_ADMIN_PASSWORD} \
    --clusters=global
  1. Execute violet push to upload cluster plugin.
  2. ${PKG_NAME} is the name of the Alauda Service Mesh Essentials cluster plugin tarball.
  3. ${PLATFORM_ADDRESS} is your ACP platform address.
  4. ${PLATFORM_ADMIN_USER} is the username of the ACP platform admin.
  5. ${PLATFORM_ADMIN_PASSWORD} is the password of the ACP platform admin.

Installing

Procedure

In Platform Management of ACP console:

  1. Select global cluster from the Cluster dropdown list at the top of the console.
  2. Click Marketplace / Cluster Plugin.
  3. Locate Alauda Service Mesh Essentials.
  4. Click Install.

Verification

Confirm that the Alauda Service Mesh Essentials tile shows one of the following states:

  • Installing: installation is in progress; wService Mesht for this to change to Installed.
  • Installed: installation is complete.