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Version: 1.6.x

Onboard Workload(s) from AWS Auto Scaling Group

To onboard a workload deployed on AWS Auto Scaling Group (ASG), you will need to perform all setup actions as part of the instance launch script instead of executing commands on the EC2 instance.

In a nutshell, you will need to move setup commands from previous steps into the cloud-init configuration associated with instances in the Auto Scaling Group.

Specifically,

  1. Move setup commands from the Install Bookinfo Ratings application step
  2. Move setup commands from the Install Istio sidecar step
  3. Move setup commands from the Install Workload Onboarding Agent on AWS EC2 instance step
  4. Move setup commands from the Onboard workload from AWS EC2 instance step

The following configuration is a sample that has all of the steps joined together. Replace example-ca-certificate with the with the value of example-ca.crt.pem, and ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS with the value that you have obtained earlier.

#cloud-config

write_files:
# Certificate of the custom CA
- content: |
<example-ca-certificate>
path: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/example-ca.crt
owner: root:root
permissions: '0644'
# Onboarding Configuration
- content: |
apiVersion: config.agent.onboarding.tetrate.io/v1alpha1
kind: OnboardingConfiguration
onboardingEndpoint:
host: <ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS>
transportSecurity:
tls:
sni: onboarding-endpoint.example
workloadGroup:
namespace: bookinfo
name: ratings
workload:
labels:
version: v5
settings:
connectedOver: INTERNET
path: /etc/onboarding-agent/onboarding.config.yaml
owner: root:root
permissions: '0644'

runcmd:
- |
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -ex

# Install the latest version of trusted CA certificates
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates
# Trust certificate of the custom CA
sudo update-ca-certificates

# Install Bookinfo ratings app
curl --fail --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
curl -fLO https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/tetrate/onboarding-examples/raw/files/bookinfo-ratings.deb
sudo apt-get install -y ./bookinfo-ratings.deb
rm bookinfo-ratings.deb
sudo systemctl enable bookinfo-ratings
sudo systemctl start bookinfo-ratings

ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS=<ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS>

# Install Istio Sidecar
curl -fLO \
--connect-to "onboarding-endpoint.example:443:${ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS}:443" \
"https://onboarding-endpoint.example/install/deb/amd64/istio-sidecar.deb"
curl -fLO \
--connect-to "onboarding-endpoint.example:443:${ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS}:443" \
"https://onboarding-endpoint.example/install/deb/amd64/istio-sidecar.deb.sha256"
sha256sum --check istio-sidecar.deb.sha256
sudo apt-get install -y ./istio-sidecar.deb
rm istio-sidecar.deb istio-sidecar.deb.sha256

# Install Workload Onboarding Agent
curl -fLO \
--connect-to "onboarding-endpoint.example:443:${ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS}:443" \
"https://onboarding-endpoint.example/install/deb/amd64/onboarding-agent.deb"
curl -fLO \
--connect-to "onboarding-endpoint.example:443:${ONBOARDING_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS}:443" \
"https://onboarding-endpoint.example/install/deb/amd64/onboarding-agent.deb.sha256"
sha256sum --check onboarding-agent.deb.sha256
sudo apt-get install -y ./onboarding-agent.deb
rm onboarding-agent.deb onboarding-agent.deb.sha256
sudo systemctl enable onboarding-agent
sudo systemctl start onboarding-agent

Once the data is associated with the user data of your Auto Scaling Group, try scaling up and down the Auto Scaling Group, and verify that the Workload is onboarded properly