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Prerequisites

To use StreamNative Private Cloud, the following are required:
  • Prepare a Kubernetes cluster (Kubernetes version >= 1.16).
  • Install kubectl (v1.16 or above), compatible with your cluster (+/- 1 minor release from your cluster).
  • Install Helm (v3.0.2 or above).

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Create the operators namespace

  1. Create a Kubernetes namespace where the operator will be installed later. 
    kubectl create namespace operators

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Install StreamNative Private Cloud

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Import license

Before installing StreamNative Private Cloud, you need to import a valid license. Otherwise, StreamNative Private Cloud will stop reconciling with a “no valid license” error message: 
ERROR	controller.pulsarcoordinator	Reconciler error	{"reconciler group": "k8s.streamnative.io", "reconciler kind": "PulsarCoordinator", "name": "private-cloud", "namespace": "pulsar", "error": "No valid license has been found under namespace operators, please contact https://streamnative.io/deployment/start-free-trial"}
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).processNextWorkItem
If you do not have any license, you can contact StreamNative to apply for a free trial. When you have a license in hand, you can import it through:
metadata.labels with the cloud.streamnative.io/type: "license" is required because the sn-operator will detect secrets in its namespace with label and to import automatically.
cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
# This label is a required field for the sn-operator to detect the license.
  labels:
    cloud.streamnative.io/type: "license"
  name: sn-license
  namespace: operators
type: Opaque
stringData:
  license: "Your license token"
EOF

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Install the StreamNative Operator

  1. Add the StreamNative chart repository. 
    helm repo add streamnative https://charts.streamnative.io
helm repo update
  2. Deploy the StreamNative Operator using the sn-operator Helm chart in the created Kubernetes namespace. 
    helm install sn-operator streamnative/sn-operator -n operators
  3. Verify that Operator Pods are running. 
    kubectl get all -n operators

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Create the Pulsar namespaces

Create the namespaces pulsar. The pulsar namespace is used for deploying your Pulsar cluster. 
kubectl create ns pulsar

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Provision a Pulsar cluster

To provision a Pulsar cluster through the StreamNative Operator, you need to define a YAML file for your Pulsar cluster. Run the command below to deploy your Pulsar cluster in pulsar namespace 
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/streamnative/private-cloud/main/quick-start/pulsar-cluster.yaml

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Tools usage

StreamNative Private Cloud provisions a toolset Pod which packages regual Pulsar tools: 
kubectl exec -it private-cloud-toolset-0 -n pulsar -- bash
Use pulsar-client to quickly produce some messages 
bin/pulsar-client produce private-cloud -m "sn-private-cloud" -n 10

2023-10-21T20:39:56,476+0000 [pulsar-client-io-1-1] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.ProducerImpl - [private-cloud] [brokers-1-0] Closed Producer
2023-10-21T20:39:56,478+0000 [main] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.PulsarClientImpl - Client closing. URL: http://brokers-broker.pulsar.svc.cluster.local:8080
2023-10-21T20:39:56,494+0000 [pulsar-client-io-1-1] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.ClientCnx - [id: 0x570456f6, L:/10.244.0.22:48324 ! R:brokers-broker-1.brokers-broker-headless.pulsar.svc.cluster.local/10.244.0.31:6650] Disconnected
2023-10-21T20:39:58,509+0000 [main] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.client.cli.PulsarClientTool - 10 messages successfully produced
Use pulsarctl to check the resource status 
bin/pulsarctl topics list public/default

+-------------------------------------------+---------------+
|                TOPIC NAME                 | PARTITIONED ? |
+-------------------------------------------+---------------+
| persistent://public/default/private-cloud | N             |
+-------------------------------------------+---------------+

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Access to Console

kubectl port-forward console-streamnative-console-0 9527:9527 -n pulsar

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Clean up

Run the command below to delete your Pulsar cluster. 
kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/streamnative/private-cloud/main/quick-start/pulsar-cluster.yaml
Run the command below to remove the sn-operator. 
helm uninstall sn-operator -n operators