Install Voyager Community Edition

Voyager Community edition is available under AppsCode-Community-1.0.0 license and free to use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Community Edition only manages Voyager custom resources in the demo Kubernetes namespace. A full features comparison between the Voyager Community edition and Enterprise edition can be found here.

To use the Voyager Community edition, you can grab 1 year free license from here. After that, you can issue another license for one more year. Typically we release a new version of the operator at least quarterly. So, you can just grab a new license every time you upgrade the operator.

Get a License

In this section, we are going to show you how you can get a 1 year free license for the Voyager Community edition. You can get a license for your Kubernetes cluster by going through the following steps:

• At first, go to AppsCode License Server and fill-up the form. It will ask for your Name, Email, the product you want to install, and your cluster ID (UID of the kube-system namespace).

• Provide your name and email address. You can provide your personal or work email address.

• Then, select Voyager Community Edition in the product field.

• Now, provide your cluster-ID. You can get your cluster ID easily by running the following command:

  $ kubectl get ns kube-system -o=jsonpath='{.metadata.uid}'
  

• Then, you have to agree with the terms and conditions. We recommend reading it before checking the box.

• Now, you can submit the form. After you submit the form, the AppsCode License server will send an email to the provided email address with a link to your license file.

• Navigate to the provided link and save the license into a file. Here, we save the license to a license.txt file.

Here is a screenshot of the license form.

You can create licenses for as many clusters as you want. You can upgrade your license any time without re-installing Voyager by following the upgrading guide from here.

Voyager licensing process has been designed to work with CI/CD workflow. You can automatically obtain a license from your CI/CD pipeline by following the guide from here.

Install

Voyager operator can be installed as a Helm chart or simply as Kubernetes manifests.

• Helm 3 (Recommended)
• YAML

$ helm repo add appscode https://charts.appscode.com/stable/
$ helm repo update

$ helm search repo appscode/voyager --version v2023.05.16
NAME                  CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
appscode/voyager      v2023.05.16   v2023.05.16     Voyager by AppsCode - Secure L7/L4 Ingress Cont...
appscode/voyager-crds v2023.05.16   v2023.05.16     Voyager Custom Resource Definitions

# provider=acs
# provider=aks
# provider=aws
# provider=azure
# provider=baremetal
# provider=gce
# provider=gke
# provider=kind
# provider=openstack
# provider=metallb
# provider=digitalocean
# provider=linode

$ helm install voyager-operator appscode/voyager \
  --version v2023.05.16 \
  --namespace voyager --create-namespace \
  --set cloudProvider=$provider \
  --set-file license=/path/to/the/license.txt

$ helm repo add appscode https://charts.appscode.com/stable/
$ helm repo update

$ helm search repo appscode/voyager --version v2023.05.16
NAME                  CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
appscode/voyager      v2023.05.16   v2023.05.16     Voyager by AppsCode - Secure L7/L4 Ingress Cont...
appscode/voyager-crds v2023.05.16   v2023.05.16     Voyager Custom Resource Definitions

# provider=acs
# provider=aks
# provider=aws
# provider=azure
# provider=baremetal
# provider=gce
# provider=gke
# provider=kind
# provider=openstack
# provider=metallb
# provider=digitalocean
# provider=linode

$ kubectl create ns voyager
$ helm template voyager-operator appscode/voyager \
  --version v2023.05.16 \
  --namespace voyager \
  --set cloudProvider=$provider \
  --set-file license=/path/to/the/license.txt    \
  --set cleaner.skip=true | kubectl apply -f -

Verify installation

To check if Voyager operator pods have started, run the following command:

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -l app.kubernetes.io/name=voyager --watch

NAMESPACE   NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
voyager     voyager-operator-84d575d55-5lphm   1/1     Running   0          6m42s

Once the operator pods are running, you can cancel the above command by typing Ctrl+C.

Now, to confirm CRD groups have been registered by the operator, run the following command:

$ kubectl get crd -l app.kubernetes.io/name=voyager

Now, you are ready to create your first ingress using Voyager.

Configuring RBAC

Voyager creates an Ingress CRD. Voyager installer will create 2 user facing cluster roles:

These user facing roles supports ClusterRole Aggregation feature in Kubernetes 1.9 or later clusters.

Using kubectl

Since Voyager uses its own TPR/CRD, you need to use full resource kind to find it with kubectl.

# List all voyager ingress
$ kubectl get ingress.voyager.appscode.com --all-namespaces

# List voyager ingress for a namespace
$ kubectl get ingress.voyager.appscode.com -n <namespace>

# Get Ingress YAML
$ kubectl get ingress.voyager.appscode.com -n <namespace> <ingress-name> -o yaml

# Describe Ingress. Very useful to debug problems.
$ kubectl describe ingress.voyager.appscode.com -n <namespace> <ingress-name>