This page explains how to add versioning information to CustomResourceDefinitions, to indicate the stability level of your CustomResourceDefinitions or advance your API to a new version with conversion between API representations. It also describes how to upgrade an object from one version to another.
You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster. If you do not already have a cluster, you can create one by using Minikube, or you can use one of these Kubernetes playgrounds:
To check the version, enter kubectl version
.
Make sure your Kubernetes cluster has a master version of 1.11.0 or higher.
Read about custom resources.
The CustomResourceDefinition API supports a versions
field that you can use to
support multiple versions of custom resources that you have developed. Versions
can have different schemas with a conversion webhook to convert custom resources between versions.
Webhook conversions should follow the Kubernetes API conventions wherever applicable.
Specifically, See the API change documentation for a set of useful gotchas and suggestions.
Note: Earlier iterations included aversion
field instead ofversions
. Theversion
field is deprecated and optional, but if it is not empty, it must match the first item in theversions
field.
This example shows a CustomResourceDefinition with two versions. For the first example, the assumption is all versions share the same schema with no conversion between them. The comments in the YAML provide more context.
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
# name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: <plural>.<group>
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
# group name to use for REST API: /apis/<group>/<version>
group: example.com
# list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition
versions:
- name: v1beta1
# Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag.
served: true
# One and only one version must be marked as the storage version.
storage: true
- name: v1
served: true
storage: false
# The conversion section is introduced in Kubernetes 1.13+ with a default value of
# None conversion (strategy sub-field set to None).
conversion:
# None conversion assumes the same schema for all versions and only sets the apiVersion
# field of custom resources to the proper value
strategy: None
# either Namespaced or Cluster
scope: Namespaced
names:
# plural name to be used in the URL: /apis/<group>/<version>/<plural>
plural: crontabs
# singular name to be used as an alias on the CLI and for display
singular: crontab
# kind is normally the CamelCased singular type. Your resource manifests use this.
kind: CronTab
# shortNames allow shorter string to match your resource on the CLI
shortNames:
- ct
You can save the CustomResourceDefinition in a YAML file, then use
kubectl create
to create it.
kubectl create -f my-versioned-crontab.yaml
After creation, the API server starts to serve each enabled version at an HTTP
REST endpoint. In the above example, the API versions are available at
/apis/example.com/v1beta1
and /apis/example.com/v1
.
Regardless of the order in which versions are defined in a CustomResourceDefinition, the version with the highest priority is used by kubectl as the default version to access objects. The priority is determined by parsing the name field to determine the version number, the stability (GA, Beta, or Alpha), and the sequence within that stability level.
The algorithm used for sorting the versions is designed to sort versions in the
same way that the Kubernetes project sorts Kubernetes versions. Versions start with a
v
followed by a number, an optional beta
or alpha
designation, and
optional additional numeric versioning information. Broadly, a version string might look
like v2
or v2beta1
. Versions are sorted using the following algorithm:
beta
or alpha
follow the first numeric portion, they sorted
in that order, after the equivalent string without the beta
or alpha
suffix (which is presumed to be the GA version).beta
, or alpha
, those numbers are also
sorted from largest to smallest.foo1
is sorted above foo10
. This is different from the sorting of the
numeric portion of entries that do follow the Kubernetes version patterns.This might make sense if you look at the following sorted version list:
- v10
- v2
- v1
- v11beta2
- v10beta3
- v3beta1
- v12alpha1
- v11alpha2
- foo1
- foo10
For the example in Specify multiple versions, the
version sort order is v1
, followed by v1beta1
. This causes the kubectl
command to use v1
as the default version unless the provided object specifies
the version.
Note: Webhook conversion is introduced in Kubernetes 1.13 as an alpha feature. To use it, theCustomResourceWebhookConversion
feature should be enabled. Please refer to the feature gate documentation for more information.
The above example has a None conversion between versions which only sets the apiVersion
field
on conversion and does not change the rest of the object. The API server also supports webhook
conversions that call an external service in case a conversion is required. For example when:
To cover all of these cases and to optimize conversion by the API server, the conversion requests may contain multiple objects in order to minimize the external calls. The webhook should perform these conversions independently.
Please refer to the implementation of the custom resource conversion webhook
server
that is validated in a Kubernetes e2e test. The webhook handles the
ConversionReview
requests sent by the API servers, and sends back conversion
results wrapped in ConversionResponse
. Note that the request
contains a list of custom resources that need to be converted independently without
changing the order of objects.
The example server is organized in a way to be reused for other conversions. Most of the common code are located in the framework file that leaves only one function to be implemented for different conversions.
Note: The example conversion webhook server leaves theClientAuth
field empty, which defaults toNoClientCert
. This means that the webhook server does not authenticate the identity of the clients, supposedly API servers. If you need mutual TLS or other ways to authenticate the clients, see how to authenticate API servers.
Documentation for deploying the conversion webhook is the same as for the admission webhook example service.
The assumption for next sections is that the conversion webhook server is deployed to a service named example-conversion-webhook-server
in default
namespace and serving traffic on path /crdconvert
.
Note: When the webhook server is deployed into the Kubernetes cluster as a service, it has to be exposed via a service on port 443 (The server itself can have an arbitrary port but the service object should map it to port 443). The communication between the API server and the webhook service may fail if a different port is used for the service.
The None
conversion example can be extended to use the conversion webhook by modifying conversion
section of the spec
:
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
# name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: <plural>.<group>
name: crontabs.example.com
spec:
# group name to use for REST API: /apis/<group>/<version>
group: example.com
# list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition
versions:
- name: v1beta1
# Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag.
served: true
# One and only one version must be marked as the storage version.
storage: true
# Each version can define it's own schema when there is no top-level
# schema is defined.
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
properties:
hostPort:
type: string
- name: v1
served: true
storage: false
schema:
openAPIV3Schema:
properties:
host:
type: string
port:
type: string
conversion:
# a Webhook strategy instruct API server to call an external webhook for any conversion between custom resources.
strategy: Webhook
# webhookClientConfig is required when strategy is `Webhook` and it configure the webhook endpoint to be
# called by API server.
webhookClientConfig:
service:
namespace: default
name: example-conversion-webhook-server
# path is the url the API server will call. It should match what the webhook is serving at. The default is '/'.
path: /crdconvert
caBundle: <pem encoded ca cert that signs the server cert used by the webhook>
# either Namespaced or Cluster
scope: Namespaced
names:
# plural name to be used in the URL: /apis/<group>/<version>/<plural>
plural: crontabs
# singular name to be used as an alias on the CLI and for display
singular: crontab
# kind is normally the CamelCased singular type. Your resource manifests use this.
kind: CronTab
# shortNames allow shorter string to match your resource on the CLI
shortNames:
- ct
Note: When usingclientConfig.service
, the server cert must be valid for<svc_name>.<svc_namespace>.svc
.
You can save the CustomResourceDefinition in a YAML file, then use
kubectl apply
to apply it.
kubectl apply -f my-versioned-crontab-with-conversion.yaml
Make sure the conversion service is up and running before applying new changes.
When an object is written, it is persisted at the version designated as the storage version at the time of the write. If the storage version changes, existing objects are never converted automatically. However, newly-created or updated objects are written at the new storage version. It is possible for an object to have been written at a version that is no longer served.
When you read an object, you specify the version as part of the path. If you
specify a version that is different from the object’s persisted version,
Kubernetes returns the object to you at the version you requested, but the
persisted object is neither changed on disk, nor converted in any way
(other than changing the apiVersion
string) while serving the request.
You can request an object at any version that is currently served.
If you update an existing object, it is rewritten at the version that is currently the storage version. This is the only way that objects can change from one version to another.
To illustrate this, consider the following hypothetical series of events:
v1beta1
. You create an object. It is persisted in
storage at version v1beta1
v1
to your CustomResourceDefinition and designate it as
the storage version.v1beta1
, then you read the object again at
version v1
. Both returned objects are identical except for the apiVersion
field.v1
. You now
have two objects, one of which is at v1beta1
, and the other of which is at
v1
.v1
since that
is the current storage version.The API server records each version which has ever been marked as the storage
version in the status field storedVersions
. Objects may have been persisted
at any version that has ever been designated as a storage version. No objects
can exist in storage at a version that has never been a storage version.
When deprecating versions and dropping support, devise a storage upgrade
procedure. The following is an example procedure to upgrade from v1beta1
to v1
.
v1
as the storage in the CustomResourceDefinition file and apply it
using kubectl. The storedVersions
is now v1beta1, v1
.v1
.Status
by removing v1beta1
from
storedVersions
field.Was this page helpful?
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