Install Voyager Enterprise Edition

Voyager Enterprise edition is the open core version of Voyager. Enterprise Edition can be used to manage Voyager custom resources in any Kubernetes namespace. A full features comparison between the Voyager Community edition and Enterprise edition can be found here.

If you are willing to try Voyager Enterprise Edition, you can grab a 30 days trial license from here. To purchase an Enterprise license, please contact us from here.

Get a Trial License

In this section, we are going to show you how you can get a 30 days trial license for Voyager Enterprise 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 must provide your work email address.
• Then, select Voyager Enterprise 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.

Get an Enterprise License

If you are interested in purchasing Enterprise license, please contact us via sales@appscode.com for further discussion. You can also set up a meeting via our calendly link.

If you are willing to purchasing Enterprise license but need more time to test in your dev cluster, feel free to contact sales@appscode.com. We will be happy to extend your trial period.

Install

To activate the Enterprise features, you need to install both Voyager Community operator and Enterprise operator chart. These operators can be installed as a Helm chart or simply as Kubernetes manifests. If you have already installed the Community operator, only install the Enterprise operator (step 4 in the following section).

• Helm 3 (Recommended)
• YAML

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

$ helm search repo appscode/voyager --version v2023.9.18
NAME                  CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
appscode/voyager      v2023.9.18   v2023.9.18     Voyager by AppsCode - Secure L7/L4 Ingress Cont...
appscode/voyager-crds v2023.9.18   v2023.9.18     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 v2023.9.18 \
  --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 v2023.9.18
NAME                  CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
appscode/voyager      v2023.9.18   v2023.9.18     Voyager by AppsCode - Secure L7/L4 Ingress Cont...
appscode/voyager-crds v2023.9.18   v2023.9.18     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 v2023.9.18 \
  --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>