KCE Cloud Controller Manager

The Katapult Container Engine Cloud Controller Manager is a set of tools that is designed to monitor nodes & provision load balancers.

As it stands, kce-ccm creates LoadBalancers and LoadBalancerRule objects in Katapult to direct traffic to k8s LoadBalancer type services.

Other CCMs

See the following other CCMs as good guidance:

• https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-gcp/
• https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws/
• https://github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean-cloud-controller-manager (uses older CCM framework, so take with a pinch of salt)

Configuration

The following environment variables are mandatory:

• KATAPULT_API_TOKEN - the API token to use to authenticate with
• KATAPULT_ORGANIZATION_RID - the organization RID for the cluster
• KATAPULT_DATA_CENTER_RID - the data centre that the cluster is deployed in
• KATAPULT_NODE_TAG_RID - the tag that has been applied to all worker nodes in the cluster

The following environment variables are optional:

• KATAPULT_API_HOST - the hostname for the API service

A set of command line arguments are also available. Use --help to view these in full.

Token

The token requires the following scopes:

• load_balancers