wsl_deployment_on_kind.md

Deploy calico/vpp on kind cluster in WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Enabling virtualization on windows

Check in task manager/performance that virtualization is enabled. If not, enter bios setup and enable virtualization.

Enter Start menu, type "turn windows features on or off", enable hyper-v.

Installing and configuring WSL on windows

Install wsl if not yet installed.

Open Powershell as Admin:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform, Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

reboot your computer

Open Powershell as Admin:

wsl --set-default-version 2
wsl --install -d Ubuntu-20.04

Installing docker

Install docker desktop for windows (https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/install/) Install choco (https://chocolatey.org/install#individual)

choco install kind

Make sure docker desktop is running (e.g docker ps connects to the daemon socket)

Installing calico vpp

create this file cluster-config.yml

kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 30000
    hostPort: 30000
    protocol: TCP

kind create cluster --config=cluster-config.yml

Apply calico-vpp components manifests:

kubectl apply -f https://projectcalico.docs.tigera.io/manifests/tigera-operator.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectcalico/vpp-dataplane/v3.23.0/yaml/calico/installation-default.yaml

get the calico/vpp deployment yaml

curl -o calico-vpp.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectcalico/vpp-dataplane/v3.23.0/yaml/generated/calico-vpp-nohuge.yaml

Make necessary changes to calico-vpp.yaml configMap depending on cluster, in kind this should normally be:

CALICOVPP_INTERFACE: eth0
SERVICE_PREFIX: 10.96.0.0/16
buffers {
      buffers-per-numa 16384
      page-size 4k
    }
memory {
      main-heap-page-size 4k
    }

kubectl apply -f calico-vpp.yaml

Check your cluster: kubectl get pods -A