Overview
The Workload Wizard is primarily designed for users that
- Want to specify business intent for their workload and have the wizard take care of everything required to comply with the intent.
- Do not want to deal with the learning curve associated with Kubernetes
- Do not want to develop, test and maintain Kubernetes YAML or Helm charts for their workloads
- Want "correctly formed" Kubernetes YAML to be automatically generated by the wizard.
High Level Steps¶
The Workload Wizard takes the user through a few logical, intuitive steps resulting in the definition of the workload's configuration.
Step 1: Create Workload¶
When creating a new workload,
- Ensure "Workload Wizard" is selected for the Package Type
- Specify a name for the workload, the namespace where you would like to deploy it
- Finally, specify whether the workload requires Ingress or not. If Enabled, the workload wizard will prompt for Ingress related configuration as well.
Step 2: Specify Ingress¶
If ingress was selected for the workload, the wizard will prompt the user to configure ingress details.
Step 3: Configure Containers¶
The wizard then prompts the user to configure one/more containers that will be part of the workload
Step 4: Upgrade Policies¶
Once the containers have been configured, the wizard prompts the user to specify how they would like to perform container upgrades on clusters
Step 5: Placement Policy¶
The wizard will now prompt the user to specify the type of placement policy they would like to use to deploy their workloads.
Step 6: Publish Workload¶
This is the final step in the workload wizard. Once the user attempts to publish the workload, the controller performs the following tasks:
- Validation of the workload's configuration for errors
- Auto generation of Kubernetes YAML
- Send deployment instructions to targeted clusters
- Check for successful deployment of the workload and report