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Katenary is a tool to help transforming `docker-compose` files to a working Helm Chart for Kubernetes.
> **Important Note** Katenary is a tool to help building Helm Chart from a docker-compose file, but docker-compose doesn't propose as many features as what can do Kubernetes. So, we strongly recommend to use Katenary as a "bootstrap" tool and then to manually enhance the generated helm chart.
This project is partially made at [Smile](https://smile.eu)
![smile logo](misc/Logo_Smile.png)
# Install
If you've got `podman` or `docker`, you can build `katenary` by using:
```bash
make build
```
You can then install it with:
```bash
make install
```
It will use the default PREFIX (`~/.local/`) to install the binary in the `bin` subdirectory. You can force the PREFIX value at install time, but maybe you need to use "sudo":
```bash
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/local
```
# Tips
We strongly recommand to add the "completion" call to you SHELL using the common bashrc, or whatever the profile file you use.
E.g. :
```bash
# bash in ~/.bashrc file
source <(katenary completion bash)
# if the documentation breaks a bit your completion:
source <(katenary completion bash --no-description)
# zsh in ~/.zshrc
source <(helm completion zsh)
# fish in ~/.config/fish/config.fish
katenary completion fish | source
# powershell (as we don't provide any support on Windows yet, please avoid this...)
```
# Usage
```
Katenary aims to be a tool to convert docker-compose files to Helm Charts.
It will create deployments, services, volumes, secrets, and ingress resources.
But it will also create initContainers based on depend_on, healthcheck, and other features.
It's not magical, sometimes you'll need to fix the generated charts.
The general way to use it is to call one of these commands:
katenary convert
katenary convert -f docker-compose.yml
katenary convert -f docker-compose.yml -o ./charts
In case of, check the help of each command using:
katenary <command> --help
or
"katenary help <command>"
Usage:
katenary [command]
Available Commands:
completion Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
convert Convert docker-compose to helm chart
help Help about any command
show-labels Show labels of a resource
version Display version
Flags:
-h, --help help for katenary
Use "katenary [command] --help" for more information about a command.
```
Katenary will try to find a `docker-compose.yaml` or `docker-compose.yml` file inside the current directory. It will check *the existence of the `chart` directory to create a new Helm Chart inside a named subdirectory. Katenary will ask you if you want to delete it before recreating.
It creates a subdirectory inside `chart` that is named with the `appname` option (default is `MyApp`)
> To respect the ability to install the same application in the same namespace, Katenary will create "variable" names like `{{ .Release.Name }}-servicename`. So, you will need to use some labels inside your docker-compose file to help katenary to build a correct helm chart.
What can be interpreted by Katenary:
- Services with "image" section (cannot work with "build" section)
- **Named Volumes** are transformed to persistent volume claims - note that local volume will break the transformation to Helm Chart because there is (for now) no way to make it working (see below for resolution)
- if `ports` and/or `expose` section, katenary will create Services and bind the port to the corresponding container port
- `depends_on` will add init containers to wait for the depending service (using the first port)
- `env_file` list will create a configMap object per environemnt file (⚠ todo: the "to-service" label doesn't work with configMap for now)
- some labels can help to bind values, for example:
- `katenary.io/ingress: 80` will expose the port 80 in a ingress
- `katenary.io/to-service: VARNAME` will convert the value to a variable `{{ .Release.Name }}-VARNAME` - it's usefull when you want to pass the name of a service as a variable (think about the service name for mysql to pass to a container that wants to connect to this)
Exemple of a possible `docker-compose.yaml` file:
```yaml
version: "3"
services:
webapp:
image: php:7-apache
environment:
# note that "database" is a service name
DB_HOST: database
expose:
- 80
depends_on:
# this will create a init container waiting for 3306 port
# because it's the "exposed" port
- database
labels:
# explain to katenary that "DB_HOST" value is variable (using release name)
katenary.io/env-to-service: DB_HOST
# expose the port 80 as an ingress
katenary.io/ingress: 80
database:
image: mariadb:10
env_file:
# this will create a configMap
- my_env.env
environment:
MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD: foobar
labels:
# no need to declare this port in docker-compose
# but katenary will need it
katenary.io/ports: 3306
```
# Labels
These labels could be found by `katenary show-labels`, and can be placed as "labels" inside your docker-compose file:
```
katenary.io/secret-envfiles : set the given file names as a secret instead of configmap
katenary.io/ports : set the ports to expose as a service (coma separated)
katenary.io/ingress : set the port to expose in an ingress (coma separated)
katenary.io/env-to-service : specifies that the environment variable points on a service name (coma separated)
katenary.io/configmap-volumes : specifies that the volumes points on a configmap (coma separated)
katenary.io/same-pod : specifies that the pod should be deployed in the same pod than the given service name
katenary.io/empty-dirs : specifies that the given volume names should be "emptyDir" instead of persistentVolumeClaim (coma separated)
katenary.io/healthcheck : specifies that the container should be monitored by a healthcheck, **it overrides the docker-compose healthcheck**.
You can use these form of label values:
- "http://[not used address][:port][/path]" to specify an http healthcheck
- "tcp://[not used address]:port" to specify a tcp healthcheck
- other string is condidered as a "command" healthcheck
```